Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”
So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked
Whatever house you enter, begin by saying, ‘Peace to this house.’
Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out
“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: ‘Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD sha
Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his
This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is lef
Then the scouts took two chariots with horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army, saying, “Go and see.”
Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west o
So the king sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying a