Give the signal to attack Babylon’s wall! ¹  Bring more guards! ²  Post them all around the city! ³  Put men in ambush! ⁴  For the Lord will do what he has planned. He will do what he said he would do to the people of Babylon. ⁵ 

(Now the slaves ¹  and the guards ²  were standing around a charcoal fire they had made, warming themselves because it was cold. ³  Peter also was standing with them, warming himself.) ⁴ 

He posted guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.

You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects ¹  the lives of his faithful followers; he delivers them from the power ²  of the wicked.

The one who tends a fig tree ¹  will eat its fruit, ²  and whoever takes care of ³  his master will be honored.

So Judas obtained a squad of soldiers ¹  and some officers of the chief priests and Pharisees. ²  They came to the orchard ³  with lanterns ⁴  and torches and weapons.

All the people of the land went and demolished ¹  the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols ²  to bits. ³  They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest ⁴  then placed guards at the Lord’s temple.

The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides – east, west, north, and south.

These were the divisions of the gatekeepers who were descendants of Korah and Merari.

From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

The Lord’s angel camps around the Lord’s ¹  loyal followers ²  and delivers them. ³ 

He protects ¹  all his bones; ²  not one of them is broken. ³ 

I keep your rules; I love them greatly.

a lizard ¹  you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king. ² 

Now ¹  the men who were holding Jesus ²  under guard began to mock him and beat him.

He placed the men at their posts, each holding his weapon in his hand. They lined up from the south side of the temple to the north side and stood near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king. ¹ 

supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. ¹  Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

So I stationed people at the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. ¹  I stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.

Your courtiers ¹  are like locusts, your officials ²  are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they ³  fly away; ⁴  and no one knows where they ⁵  are. ⁶ 

When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, “Crucify ¹  him! Crucify him!” ²  Pilate said, ³  “You take him and crucify him! ⁴  Certainly ⁵  I find no reason for an accusation ⁶  against him!”