Reference: WARD, OR GUARD
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To put "in ward" was to place under guard, or in confinement, Ge 40:3; Le 24:12. Ward also seems to mean a guard-room, Ne 12:25; Isa 21:8, and the guards themselves, Ac 12:10, or any small band, 1Ch 25:8; 26:16.
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And he put them in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, into the house of the prison where Joseph was bound.
And they put him in ward that the mind of the LORD might be showed them.
And they cast lots, ward against ward, the small as well as the great, the one with understanding as well as the disciple.
To Shuppim and Hosah to the west, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
and he cried, A lion upon the watchman. My lord, I stand continually all the day and all night long upon my watchtower.
When they were past the first and the second guard, they came unto the iron gate that leads unto the city, which opened to them of its own accord, and they went out and passed on through one street, and then the angel departed from him.