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'Keep Watch' in the Bible

And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.

Verse ConceptsGod Keeping WatchPeople Parting

Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept Stock

And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPresented At The DoorwayDeath As Punishment

So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, Of BelieversGod Appearing In FireNot Seeing God

And Joshua said, Let great stones be rolled against the mouth of the hole, and let men keep watch by it:

Verse ConceptsRolling

So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodCautionLove For GodThe Need To Love God

So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly;

Keep watching it. If it goes up along the road to its own territory to Beth-shemesh, it's the LORD who has done this great evil to us. But if it does not, then we will know that he wasn't pressuring us. It happened to us as a natural event."

Verse ConceptsChanceDistinguishingNatural Disasters

Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.

Verse ConceptsDawnWatchfulness, Of BelieversDuring One Night

So David said to Abner, "[Are] you not a man? And who [is] like you in Israel? Why did you not keep watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy your lord the king.

Verse ConceptsUnique IndividualsPeople Keeping

Then Absalom instructed his young men, "Please keep watching Amnon until he's drunk. Then I'll tell you, "Attack Amnon!' As soon as I do, kill him and don't be afraid! You have your orders, so be strong and brave!"

Verse ConceptsFeastingAssassinations, CompletedWineBraveryDrunk IndividualsBe Courageous!

He commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do: a third of you who come in [reporting for duty] on the Sabbath shall keep watch over the king’s house

Verse ConceptsDividing Into Three Groups

(a third shall also be at the [city] gate Sur, and a third at the gate behind the guards); so you shall keep watch over the palace [from three posts] for defense.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

Two parts of you, even all who go out on the sabbath, shall also keep watch over the house of the Lord for the king.

And they and their sons were at the gates of the house of Jehovah, the house of the tent, to keep watch there.

So keep watching, because the LORD has chosen you to build the Temple of his sanctuary. So be strong, and get to work!"

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofStrength Of PeopleSolomon's Temple

And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.

For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.

Verse ConceptsExposure Of SinSteps Of The Saints

Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

In order that they might observe his statutes, And, over his laws, might keep watch, Praise ye Yah.

Verse ConceptsPraise The Lord!Keep The Commandments!

You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

Verse ConceptsMan's WaysGod's OmnipresencePaths Of BelieversLying Down To Rest

In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

Verse ConceptsAddressing Someoneawakening

Happy [is the] person who listens to me, [in order] to keep watch at my doors day by day, [in order] to guard the frames of my entrances.

Verse ConceptsDaily DutyUnceasingAlways Being ActiveWaiting At GatesBlessed In ServiceRejoicing In WisdomSchoolWaiting On The Lordmistress

The eyes of Yahweh keep watch over knowledge, but he will overthrow the words of the faithless.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing All The EarthMental Abusepreservationtraitors

when those who keep watch over the house begin to tremble, and the virile men begin to stoop over, and the grinders begin to cease because they grow few, and those who look through the windows grow dim,

Verse ConceptsFeeblenessDimness Of VisionDentistryTeethLooking Through WindowsTremblingGrinding FoodEyes HarmedFew ThingsGrowingWeather In The Last Days

And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.

Verse ConceptsGod, As Saviordefence, divineGod Defending

Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it.

Verse ConceptsGod Keeping WatchGod Pays Attentionfulfillmentperformance

And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

Verse ConceptsForestsLeopardCarnivorousnessWolvesIn Danger From Lions

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

Verse ConceptsHuntingTrapWaitingAmbushSnares Laid for PeopleMan TrappingBirds

Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

Verse ConceptsBackbitingdistrustOptimismNot Believing PeopleTrustFriendsBest FriendsFriendship And LoveFamily And FriendsFriendship And TrustTrusting OthersFriendship KjvFake FriendsSibling Lovehealthcarecheaters

Stand by the road and keep watch, O woman who lives in Aroer. Ask the man who flees and the woman who escapes. Say, "What happened'?

Verse ConceptsFugitivesRoadsWhat Is The Matter?

So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

Verse ConceptsLeopardGod Like A LionGod WaitingLike Creatures

As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

Verse ConceptsFir TreesUnfading LifeThe Source Of FruitGod Will AnswerWhat Have We In Common?God KeepsChristmas Treefruitfulness

But as for me, I will look expectantly for the Lord and with confidence in Him I will keep watch;I will wait [with confident expectation] for the God of my salvation.My God will hear me.

Verse ConceptsHope, In GodOptimismPrayer, Persistence InPrayerfulnessWaiting On GodWatchfulness, Of BelieversAttitudes Of HopeAnticipationGod My SalvationThose Who Wait For GodGod Pays AttentionGod's WillWaiting On The LordWork Ethic

I will stand at my post, and station myself on [the] rampart. And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concerning my complaint.

Verse ConceptsMan Keeping WatchWaitingWatchmanAnswering Godanswersmyself

Why do you keep watching the tiny speck in your brother's eye, but pay no attention to the girder in your own?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristInconsistencyA Little BitActing For OneselfEyesHindrancesHypocrisyWorryingFocusdust

And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “So, you men could not stay awake and keep watch with Me for one hour?

Verse ConceptsHourPainPrayerlessnessSleep, PhysicalUnreliabilityOverconfidenceOne HourChrist With His DisciplesStress And Hard Times

"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

Verse ConceptsDoorkeepersHuman Authority, Nature OfMan Appointing

So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;

Verse ConceptsHourLast ThingsNightCrowsSleep, Warnings AgainstMidnightDaybreakIgnorance Of Christ’s ReturnAt DaybreakThe Time UnknownAttitudes While Waiting For Second Coming

And what I say to you, I say to all, Keep watch.

And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessStaying Put

And he came, and saw them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, are you sleeping? were you not able to keep watch one hour?

Verse ConceptsHourPrayerlessnessSleep, PhysicalUnreliabilityOne Hour

And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover.

Verse ConceptsGuardsImprisonmentsPassoverPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSoldiersFour GroupsEasterPeople Releasing Othersjail

Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.

Verse ConceptsPast, TheRememberingRepentance, Examples OfBeing PreparedHolding FastIgnorance Of Christ’s ReturnRepentanceThe Time UnknownThe Lord As A Thief

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