Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

Take an horseman

Bible References

A watchman

2 Samuel 13:34
But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill-side 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.
Isaiah 21:6
For thus has LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 62:6
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never keep silent day nor night. Ye who are LORD's reminders, take ye no rest,
Ezekiel 33:2
Son of man, speak to the sons of thy people, and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman,
Acts 20:26
Therefore I solemnly declare to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all men.

Take an horseman

2 Kings 7:14
Therefore they took two chariots with horses. And the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.