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.

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 who keeps you will not slumber.
Isaiah 27:3
“I, the Lord, am its keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one will damage it,
I guard it night and day.
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?’
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.
Isaiah 21:5
They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“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;
Isaiah 62:6
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves;
Jeremiah 51:12
Lift up a signal against the walls of Babylon;
Post a strong guard,
Station sentries,
Place men in ambush!
For the Lord has both purposed and performed
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.”