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 they put him inward, that Moses should declare unto them what the LORD said thereto.
And they cast Lots indifferently how they should wait: the small as well as the great, the scholar as well as the schoolmaster.
And to Shuppim and Hosah fell the west with the gate Shallecheth, where the way ascendeth upward, the one way being fast by the other.
Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were porters in the watch at the thresholds of the gates.
And the watchman cried, "LORD, I have stood waiting all the whole day, and am appointed to keep my watch every night.
When they were past the first and the second watch, they came unto the iron gate, that leadeth unto the city, which opened to them by his own accord. And they went out and passed through one street, and by and by the angel departed from him.