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 is the one who will build a house for My name. He will be My son, and I will be his father. I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’
1 Chronicles 28:10
Realize now that the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”
1 Chronicles 29:19
Give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and to carry out all Your commands, Your decrees, and Your statutes, and to build the temple for which I have made provision.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

They labour

1 Corinthians 15:14
and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith.
Galatians 4:11
I am fearful for you, that perhaps my labor for you has been wasted.

Except

Psalm 121:3
He will not allow your foot to slip;
your Protector will not slumber.
Isaiah 27:3
I, Yahweh, watch over it;
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day
so that no one disturbs it.
Zechariah 2:4
He said to him, “Run and tell this young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the number of people and livestock in it.”

The watchman

Song of Songs 3:3
The guards who go about the city found me.
I asked them, “Have you seen the one I love?”
Song of Songs 5:7
The guards who go about the city found me.
They beat and wounded me;
they took my cloak from me—
the guardians of the walls.
Isaiah 21:5
Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet!
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!
Isaiah 56:10
Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them,
they know nothing;
all of them are mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they dream, lie down,
and love to sleep.
Isaiah 62:6
Jerusalem,
I have appointed watchmen on your walls;
they will never be silent, day or night.
There is no rest for you,
who remind the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:12
Raise up a signal flag
against the walls of Babylon;
fortify the watch post;
set the watchmen in place;
prepare the ambush.
For the Lord has both planned and accomplished
what He has threatened
against those who live in Babylon.
Ezekiel 33:2
“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land select a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,

General references

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”

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