Watchman
10 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Alarm of, Given by Trumpets
- Ezekiel 33:3–6 and he sees the sword coming against that land and blows the ram’s horn to warn the people. …
At the Gates of the Temple
- 2 Kings 11:6–7 a third shall be at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the guards. You are to take turns guarding the temple — …
On the Walls of Cities
- Song of Solomon 3:3 I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
- Song of Solomon 5:7 I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
On Towers
- 2 Kings 9:17 Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”
- 2 Chronicles 20:24 When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.
- Isaiah 21:5–12 They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields! …
- Jeremiah 31:6 For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
Unfaithfulness in the Discharge of Duty of, Punished by Death
- Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and fails to blow the horn to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes away a life, then that one will be taken away in his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’
- Matthew 28:14 If this report reaches the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”
- Acts 12:19 After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.
Related topics
Watchman of JerusalemWatchman of BabylonTrumpet used for Giving Alarm in Cases of DangerWatchmen were StationedWatchmenWatchmen in Time of Danger
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.