For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.'
Cross References
Luke 19:20Then another servant came and said, 'Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.
Luke 19:22His master replied, 'You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
Treasury of Scripture
For I feared you, because you are an austere man: you take up that you layed not down, and reap that you did not sow.
I feared.
Exodus 20:19,20
And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die…
1 Samuel 12:20
And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
Matthew 25:24,25
Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: …
because.
1 Samuel 6:19-21
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter…
2 Samuel 6:9-11
And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me? …
Job 21:14,15
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways…
