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. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.'
1 Chronicles 28:10
Be careful now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it."
1 Chronicles 29:19
Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart that he may keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, performing all, and that he may build the palace 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 in vain and your faith is in vain.
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.
Except
Psalm 121:3
He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
Isaiah 27:3
I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day;
Zechariah 2:4
and said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.
The watchman
Song of Songs 3:3
The watchmen found me as they went about in the city. "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"
Song of Songs 5:7
The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls.
Isaiah 21:5
They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 62:6
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the LORD in remembrance, take no rest,
Jeremiah 51:12
"Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
Ezekiel 33:2
"Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman,
General references
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."