'Soldiers' in the Bible

When he arrested Peter, Herod put him in prison and turned him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, planning to bring him out to the people after Passover season.

That very night, before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, and guards in front of the door were watching the prisoners.

When morning came, there was a great commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.

Immediately the tribune took some soldiers and officers and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

When Paul got to the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because the mob had become so violent.

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

The quarrel was becoming violent, and the tribune was afraid that they would tear Paul to pieces. So he ordered the soldiers to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

Then he summoned two centurions and ordered, "Get 200 soldiers ready to leave for Caesarea at nine o'clock tonight, along with 70 mounted soldiers and 200 soldiers with spears.

So the soldiers, in keeping with their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

Paul told the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men remain onboard, you cannot be saved."

Then the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and set it adrift.

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners to keep them from swimming ashore and escaping,