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Mattani'ah, Bakbuki'ah, Obadi'ah, Meshul'lam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.

and above the Gate of E'phraim, and by the Old Gate, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hanan'el and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.

And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of thy steadfast love.

Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?

Do thou, O LORD, protect us, guard us ever from this generation.

Oh guard my life, and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.

To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, "I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence."

For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways.

Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.

Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD, keep watch over the door of my lips!

discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;

Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.

I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest any one harm it, I guard it night and day;

For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you, the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard which was in the palace of the king of Judah.

Then Han'amel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, 'Buy my field which is at An'athoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.