WATCHMAN

Passages on this topic · 27

• 2 Samuel 13:34

  But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.

• 2 Samuel 18:24

  Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

• 2 Samuel 18:25

  The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer and closer.

• 2 Kings 9:17

  Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”

• 2 Kings 11:6

  a third of you shall be at the gate Sur; and a third of you at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

• 2 Kings 11:7

  The two companies of you, even all who go out on the Sabbath, shall keep the watch of Yahweh’s house around the king.

• 2 Chronicles 20:24

  When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.

• Nehemiah 4:9

  But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

• Nehemiah 7:3

  I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”

• Isaiah 21:5

  They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

• Isaiah 21:6

  For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

• Isaiah 21:7

  When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

• Isaiah 21:8

  He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

• Isaiah 21:9

  Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

• Isaiah 21:10

  You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

• Isaiah 21:11

  The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

• Isaiah 21:12

  The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”

• Isaiah 52:8

  Your watchmen lift up their voice, together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.

• Isaiah 62:6

  I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

• Jeremiah 31:6

  For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”

• Jeremiah 51:12

  Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Ezekiel 33:3

  if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

• Ezekiel 33:4

  then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.

• Ezekiel 33:5

  He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn’t take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.

• Ezekiel 33:6

  But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

• Matthew 28:14

  If this comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.”

• Acts 12:19

  When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.