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Watchmen

 

Watchmen

Soldiers generally acted as - Mt 27:65,66

Citizens sometimes acted as - Ne 7:3

WERE STATIONED

• On watch towers
- 2Ki 9:17; Isa 21:5
• On the walls of cities
- Isa 62:6
• In the streets of cities
- Ps 127:1
• Around the temple in Jerusalem on special occasions
- 2Ki 11:6

Paraded the streets at night to preserve order - So 3:3; 5:7

IN TIME OF DANGER

• Increase in number
- Jer 51:12
• Vigilant night and day
- Ne 4:9; Isa 21:8
• Reported the approach of all strangers
- 2Sa 18:24-27; 2Ki 9:18-20; Isa 21:6,7,9
• Sounded an alarm at the approach of enemies
- Eze 33:2,3

Vigilance of, vain without God's protection - Ps 127:1

Were relieved by turns - Ne 7:3

Danger of sleeping on their posts, referred to - Mt 28:13,14

Neglecting to give warning punished with death - Eze 33:6

Often interrogated by passengers - Isa 21:11

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of ministers
- Isa 5:28; 62:6; Eze 3:17; Heb 13:17
• (Blind,) of careless ministers
- Isa 56:10
• (Looking for the morning,) of anxious waiting for God
- Ps 130:5,6
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