'Guarding' in the Bible

Then they sat down and were guarding Him there.

When the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they were terrified and said, “This man really was God’s Son!”

And there were shepherds in the same region, living out of doors and keeping watch, guarding over their flock by night.

"Whenever a strong man, fully armed and equipped, is guarding his own castle, he enjoys peaceful possession of his property;

And the men who were guarding him began to mock him [while] they beat [him],

but their plot became known to Saul. They were also watching the city’s gates day and night so they could kill him;

The very night before Herod was to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries were in front of the door guarding the prison.

Even when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing there, approving it and guarding the coats of those who were killing him.'

When we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who was guarding him.

In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,

I went up [to Jerusalem] because of a [divine] revelation, and I put before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so in private before those of reputation, for fear that I might be running or had run [the course of my ministry] in vain.

Obey your [spiritual] leaders and submit to them [recognizing their authority over you], for they are keeping watch over your souls and continually guarding your spiritual welfare as those who will give an account [of their stewardship of you]. Let them do this with joy and not with grief and groans, for this would be of no benefit to you.

whom God in His power is guarding through faith for a salvation that even now stands ready for unveiling at the End of the Age.