'Soldiers' in the Bible

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.

Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night."

"This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them, when I came with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.

Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.