Thematic Bible: Were stationed
Thematic Bible
Watchmen » Were stationed » On watch towers
They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar’s court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!”
Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and he saw the crowd with Jehu as he approached, and said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Send a horseman to meet them and have him ask, ‘Do you come in peace?’”
Watchmen » Were stationed » Around the temple in jerusalem on special occasions
(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.
Watchmen » Were stationed » Walls of cities
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed and stationed watchmen (prophets),
Who will never keep silent day or night;
You who profess the Lord, take no rest for yourselves,
Watchmen » Were stationed » In the streets of cities
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.