'Keep Watch' in the Bible
And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.
Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.
And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders.
Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;
So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:
And Joshua said, Let great stones be rolled against the mouth of the hole, and let men keep watch by it:
So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.
So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly;
Keep watching it. If it goes up along the road to its own territory to Beth-shemesh, it's the LORD who has done this great evil to us. But if it does not, then we will know that he wasn't pressuring us. It happened to us as a natural event."
Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.
So David said to Abner, "[Are] you not a man? And who [is] like you in Israel? Why did you not keep watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy your lord the king.
Then Absalom instructed his young men, "Please keep watching Amnon until he's drunk. Then I'll tell you, "Attack Amnon!' As soon as I do, kill him and don't be afraid! You have your orders, so be strong and brave!"
He commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do: a third of you who come in [reporting for duty] on the Sabbath shall keep watch over the king’s house
(a third shall also be at the [city] gate Sur, and a third at the gate behind the guards); so you shall keep watch over the palace [from three posts] for defense.
Two parts of you, even all who go out on the sabbath, shall also keep watch over the house of the Lord for the king.
And they and their sons were at the gates of the house of Jehovah, the house of the tent, to keep watch there.
So keep watching, because the LORD has chosen you to build the Temple of his sanctuary. So be strong, and get to work!"
And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.
Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you keep watching me?
For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.
Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.
O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.
I told myself, "I will keep watch over my tongue to keep from sinning. I will muzzle my mouth when the wicked are around."
I will keep watch for You, my strength,because God is my stronghold.
Who rules by His might forever,His eyes keep watch on the nations;Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
In order that they might observe his statutes, And, over his laws, might keep watch, Praise ye Yah.
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor uselessly. Unless the LORD guards the city, its security forces keep watch uselessly.
You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;Keep watch over the door of my lips [to keep me from speaking thoughtlessly].
And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
Happy [is the] person who listens to me, [in order] to keep watch at my doors day by day, [in order] to guard the frames of my entrances.
In every place, the eyes of Yahweh keep watch over the evil and the good.
The eyes of Yahweh keep watch over knowledge, but he will overthrow the words of the faithless.
when those who keep watch over the house begin to tremble, and the virile men begin to stoop over, and the grinders begin to cease because they grow few, and those who look through the windows grow dim,
And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.
They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.
Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it.
And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
Stand by the road and keep watch, O woman who lives in Aroer. Ask the man who flees and the woman who escapes. Say, "What happened'?
So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;
As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
But as for me, I will look expectantly for the Lord and with confidence in Him I will keep watch;I will wait [with confident expectation] for the God of my salvation.My God will hear me.
I will stand at my post, and station myself on [the] rampart. And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concerning my complaint.
Why do you keep watching the tiny speck in your brother's eye, but pay no attention to the girder in your own?
Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.
Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, so that I am almost dying of sorrow. Stay here and stay awake and keep watch with Me.”
And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “So, you men could not stay awake and keep watch with Me for one hour?
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
And sitting down, they began to keep watch over Him there.
Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.
"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;
And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.
And he came, and saw them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, are you sleeping? were you not able to keep watch one hour?
Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
for it has been written, 'He will command His angels concerning you, to keep watch over you;
But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.
And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover.
So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.
I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned.
Brethren, if anybody be detected in any misconduct, you who are spiritual should restore such a one in a spirit of meekness. And let each of you keep watch over himself, lest he also fall into temptation.
Obey your leaders and submit [to them], for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not [with] groaning, for this [would be] unprofitable for you.
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.