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 will give them in guard in the house of the chief of the cooks, to the house of the fortress, the place where Joseph was bound there.
And they placed him in watch, to declare distinctly to them by the mouth of Jehovah.
And they will cast lots from the watches near, as the small so the great, he understanding with him taught
To Shuppim and to Hosah to the west, with the gate of Shallecheth, by the highway of the going up, watch over against watch.
Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, watching the gates the watch of the stores of the gates.
And he will call, A lion: on the watch-tower my lord, I stand continually in the day, and upon my watch I stand all the night
And having passed by the first and second watch, they came to the iron gate leading to the city; which of its free will was opened to them: and having come out, they advanced one street; and quickly the messenger departed from him.