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. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside 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 the 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 can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 62:6
I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
Ezekiel 33:2
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;
Acts 20:26
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men,

Take an horseman

2 Kings 7:14
They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."