Watchmen

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Matthew 27:65 NT

  Pilate said to them, “You have a guard. Go, make it as secure as you can.”

• Matthew 27:66 NT

  So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

• 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…

• 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?’ ”

• Isaiah 21:5 OT

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

• 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,

• Psalms 127:1 OT

  Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Nehemiah 4:9 OT

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

• Isaiah 21:8 OT

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

• 2 Samuel 18:24-27 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. The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, “If he…

• 2 Kings 9:18-20 OT

  So one went on horseback to meet him, and said, “the king says, ‘Is it peace?’ ” Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!” The watchman said, “The messenger came to them, but he isn’t coming back.” Then he sent out…

• Isaiah 21:6 OT

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

• Isaiah 21:7 OT

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

• Isaiah 21:9 OT

  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.

• Ezekiel 33:2 OT

  “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

• Ezekiel 33:3 OT

  if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;

• Matthew 28:13 NT

  saying, “Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

• Matthew 28:14 NT

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

• 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…

• Isaiah 21:11 OT

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