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 doth build a house to My name, and he is to Me for a son, and I am to him for a father, and I have established the throne of his kingdom over Israel unto the age.
1 Chronicles 28:10
See, now, for Jehovah hath fixed on thee to build a house for a sanctuary; be strong, and do.'
1 Chronicles 29:19
and to Solomon my son give a perfect heart, to keep Thy commands, Thy testimonies, and Thy statutes, and to do the whole, even to build the palace for which I have prepared.'
1 Corinthians 3:9
for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.
They labour
1 Corinthians 15:14
and if Christ hath not risen, then void is our preaching, and void also your faith,
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.
Except
Psalm 121:3
He suffereth not thy foot to be moved, Thy preserver slumbereth not.
Isaiah 27:3
I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!
Zechariah 2:4
and he saith unto him, 'Run, speak unto this young man, saying: Unwalled villages inhabit doth Jerusalem, From the abundance of man and beast in her midst.
The watchman
Song of Songs 3:3
The watchmen have found me, (Who are going round about the city), 'Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?'
Song of Songs 5:7
The watchmen who go round about the city, Found me, smote me, wounded me, Keepers of the walls lifted up my veil from off me.
Isaiah 21:5
Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,
Isaiah 56:10
Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 62:6
'On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,
Jeremiah 51:12
Unto the walls of Babylon lift up an ensign, Strengthen the watch, Establish the watchers, prepare the ambush, For Jehovah hath both devised and done that which He spake, Concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
Ezekiel 33:2
Son of man, speak unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast said unto them: A land -- when I bring in against it a sword, And the people of the land have taken one man out of their borders, And made him to them for a watchman.
General references
Genesis 1:28
And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'