Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
{A Song of degrees for Solomon.} Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
They labour
Except
The watchman
General references
Bible References
Build
1 Chronicles 22:10 He shall build a house for My name, and he shall be My son and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
1 Chronicles 28:10
Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be courageous and act.”
1 Chronicles 29:19
and give to my son Solomon a perfect heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and to build the temple, for which I have made provision.”
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
They labour
1 Corinthians 15:14
and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.
Galatians 4:11
I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
Except
Psalm 121:3 He will not allow your foot to slip;
He whokeeps you will not slumber.
He who
Isaiah 27:3 “I, the Lord, am its keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one willdamage it,
Iguard it night and day.
So that no one will
I
Zechariah 2:4
and said to him, “Run, speak to that young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the multitude of men and cattle within it.
The watchman
Song of Songs 3:3 “The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
Song of Songs 5:7 “The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
They struck me and wounded me;
The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.
They struck me and wounded me;
The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.
Isaiah 21:5 They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains, oil the shields,”
“Rise up, captains, oil the shields,”
Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Isaiah 62:6 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You whoremind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You who
Jeremiah 51:12 Lift up a signal against the walls of Babylon;
Post a strong guard,
Stationsentries,
Place men in ambush!
For the Lord has bothpurposed and performed
What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
Post a strong guard,
Station
Place men in ambush!
For the Lord has both
What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
Ezekiel 33:2
“Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman,
General references
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”