Watchman

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Song of Solomon 3:3 OT

  The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

• Song of Solomon 5:7 OT

  The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

• 2 Samuel 13:34 OT

  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 OT

  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 OT

  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.

• Nehemiah 4:9 OT

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

• Nehemiah 7:3 OT

  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…

• Isaiah 52:8 OT

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

• Isaiah 62:6 OT

  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 51:12 OT

  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.

• 2 Kings 9:17 OT

  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 Chronicles 20:24 OT

  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.

• Isaiah 21:5-12 OT

  They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield! For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of…

• Jeremiah 31:6 OT

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

• 2 Kings 11:6 OT

  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 OT

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

• Ezekiel 33:3-6 OT

  if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people; then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.…

• Ezekiel 33:6 OT

  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 takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the…

• Matthew 28:14 NT

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

• Acts 12:19 NT

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