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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So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard. It was the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.
They held him in custody until Jehovah told them what to do.
They cast lots for their duties, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the pupil.
The lots for the West Gate and the Shalleketh Gate on the upper road fell to Shuppim and Hosah. Guard was alongside of guard:
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.
The watchman called out from the tower: Sir, I stand on the watchtower every day. Every night, I stand guard at my post.
They went past the first and second guard to the Iron Gate that leads to the city. The gate opened and went out on the street. The angel then departed from him.