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
Now Absolom had fled. And the young man that was watching lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo! much people, coming on the road behind him, on the mountain-side.
2 Samuel 18:24
Now, David, was sitting between the two gates, - and the watchman went on to the top of the gate-house, upon the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and lo! a man, running alone.
Isaiah 21:6
For, thus, hath My Lord said unto me, - Go, set the watchman, What he seeth, let him tell!
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen, are blind None of them, know, All of them, are dumb dogs, they cannot bark, - Dreaming, sleeping, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 62:6
Upon thy walls O Jerusalem, have I appointed watchmen, All the day and all the night through, let them not hold their peace, - O ye that put Yahweh in mind, Do not take rest to yourselves,
Ezekiel 33:2
Son of man Speak unto the sons of thy people and thou shalt say unto them, A land - when I bring upon it a sword, And the people of the land shall take one man out of their whole number, and appoint him for them, as watchman;
Acts 20:26
Wherefore I take you to witness, on this very day, that, pure am I from the blood of all;

Take an horseman

2 Kings 7:14
So they took two chariots and horses, - and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see!