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 himself will build a house for my name, and he himself will be to me a son, and I [will be] to him as a father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.'
1 Chronicles 28:10
Look now, for Yahweh 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 heart of peace to keep your commands, your statutes, and your regulations to do everything, and to build the citadel for which I have provided."
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
But if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching [is] in vain, and your faith [is] in vain.
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid [for] you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain!

Except

Psalm 121:3
He will not allow your foot to be moved; he who protects you will not slumber.
Isaiah 27:3
I, Yahweh, [am] her keeper; I water it {again and again}. Lest one afflict [harm] on it, I guard it night and day;
Zechariah 2:4
And he said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited {like villages without walls} because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst.

The watchman

Song of Songs 3:3
The sentinels who go about in the city found me. "Have you seen the one whom my {heart} loves?"
Song of Songs 5:7
The sentinels making rounds in the city found me; they beat me, they wounded me; they took my cloak away from me-- {those sentinels on the walls}!
Isaiah 21:5
Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs! Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smear [the] shield!
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen [are] blind, none of them know. They [are] all dumb dogs; they are unable to bark, panting, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 62:6
I have appointed watchmen upon your walls, Jerusalem; all day and all night they shall never be silent. You who profess Yahweh have no rest.
Jeremiah 51:12
Against the walls of Babylon raise a banner; {post a strong watch}, post watchmen, prepare the ambushes, for Yahweh has both planned as well as performed what he has spoken concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
Ezekiel 33:2
"Son of man, speak to {your people}, and you must say to them, 'A land, if I bring over it a sword and the people of the land take a man, one from their number, and they appoint him for them as a 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 rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven, and over every animal that moves upon the earth."