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
Take heed now, for Jehovah has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.
1 Chronicles 29:19
And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the magnificent house for which I have made ready.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For of God we are fellow-workers, a field of God, and you are a building of God.
They labour
1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is worthless, and your faith is also worthless.
Galatians 4:11
I fear for you, lest somehow I have labored among you in vain.
Except
Psalm 121:3
He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.
Isaiah 27:3
I Jehovah keep it; I will water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Zechariah 2:4
And he said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited, as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in her midst.
The watchman
Song of Songs 3:3
The watchmen going about the city found me. I said, Have you seen Him whom my soul loves?
Song of Songs 5:7
The watchmen who went about the city found me and struck me; they wounded me. The keepers of the wall lifted my veil from me.
Isaiah 21:5
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, rulers. Anoint the shield.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 62:6
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not always be silent all the day nor all the night; you who remember Jehovah, do not be silent.
Jeremiah 51:12
Set up the banner on the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up the watchmen; prepare the ambushes. For Jehovah has both planned and done that which He spoke against the people of Babylon.
Ezekiel 33:2
Son of man, speak to the sons of your people, and say to them: When I bring the sword on it, on a land, and take one man from the people of the land, of their borders, and set him for 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 fowl of the heavens, and all animals that move upon the earth.