The New Topical Text Book

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

The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.