Thematic Bible: Divided into watches


Thematic Bible



The next morning Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

At the morning watch, the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and brought the army of the Egyptians into confusion.

Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brothers, stood opposite them in their service divisions.

“Arise, cry aloud in the night
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint because of hunger
At the head of every street.”

And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea.

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate on You in the night watches,

My eyes anticipate the night watches,
That I may meditate on Your word.

Whether he comes in the second watch, or even in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.