Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'watch' occurs 96 times in the standard works.

26 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'watch' in the standard works and contain 27.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Kgs. 11:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 13:33-35 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 7:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 130:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Hab. 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 12:38 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 2:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 24:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 26:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 27:65-66 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 14:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 31 51 82
Gen. 1 0 1
Ex. 1 0 1
Judg. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 2 2 4
2 Sam. 1 5 6
2 Kgs. 3 5 8
2 Chr. 2 0 2
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 2 2 4
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 5 4 9
Prov. 0 1 1
Song. 0 2 2
Isa. 2 9 11
Jer. 4 6 10
Lam. 0 3 3
Ezek. 0 6 6
Dan. 0 4 4
Hosea 0 1 1
Micah 0 1 1
Nahum 1 0 1
Hab. 2 0 2
NT 30 15 45
BM 22 9 31
DC 11 15 26
PGP 2 2 4
TOTAL 96 92 188

1 Sam. 4:13
And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.

1 Sam. 14:16
And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.

2 Sam. 18:24
And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

2 Sam. 18:25
And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.

2 Sam. 18:26
And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.

2 Sam. 18:27
And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

2 Kgs. 9:17
And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

2 Kgs. 9:18
So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.

2 Kgs. 9:20
And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

2 Kgs. 17:9
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

2 Kgs. 18:8
He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

Neh. 7:3
And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

Neh. 12:9
Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.

Ps. 37:32
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Ps. 63:6
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Ps. 119:148
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

Ps. 127:1
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Prov. 8:34
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

Song. 3:3
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

Song. 5:7
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

Isa. 21:5
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

Isa. 21:6
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

Isa. 21:8
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

Isa. 21:11
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

Isa. 21:12
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.

Isa. 52:8
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.

Isa. 56:10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isa. 62:6
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,

Jer. 4:16
Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

Jer. 6:17
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

Jer. 20:10
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Jer. 31:6
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God.

Jer. 31:28
And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

Jer. 51:12
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Lam. 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Lam. 4:17
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

Ezek. 3:17
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Ezek. 7:6
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

Ezek. 33:2
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:

Ezek. 33:6
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

Ezek. 33:7
So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

Dan. 4:13
I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;

Dan. 4:17
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

Dan. 4:23
And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;

Dan. 9:14
Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

Hosea 9:8
The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

Micah 7:4
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.