2Ki 9:17-20, Isa 21:6-9, 11-12, Eze 33:2-7 | ESV | STEP | Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel , and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said , I see a company . And Joram said , Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say , Is it peace ?

w[See ver. 2 above]

2 Kings 9:17-20

17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’” 18 So a man on horseback went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.” And the watchman reported, saying, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.” 19 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus the king has said, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.” 20 Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving ^ais like the driving of Jehu ^bthe son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”

Isaiah 21:6-9

6 For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
let him announce what he sees.
7 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
very diligently.”
8 Then he who saw cried out: ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion}
^d“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
whole nights.
9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
^eAnd he answered,
^f“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
^gand all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”

Isaiah 21:11-12

11 The ^horacle concerning ⁱDumah.

One is calling to me from ^jSeir,
“Watchman, what time of the night?
Watchman, what time of the night?”
12 The watchman says:
“Morning comes, and also ^kthe night.
If you will inquire, ^linquire;
come back again.”

Ezekiel 33:2-7

2 ^m“Son of man, speak to ⁿyour people and say to them, If ^oI bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their ^pwatchman, 3 and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and ^qblows the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, ^rhis blood shall be upon his own head. 5 ^sHe heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. 6 ^tBut if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, ^uthat person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.

7 ^v“So you, ^wson of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. ^xWhenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.