Where does the concept of three watches come from scripturally?
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SCRIPTURES
- Exodus 14:24 LEB And during the morning watch, Yahweh looked down to the Egyptian camp from in the column of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into a panic.
- Exodus 29:38-46 LEB 38 “And this is what you shall offer on the altar: Two one-year-old male lambs every day continually. 39 The first lamb you will offer in the morning, and the second lamb you will offer at twilight. 40 And a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a libation with the first lamb. 41 And the second lamb you will offer at twilight; you will offer a grain offering and its libation like that of the morning for a fragrance of appeasement, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. 42 It will be a burnt offering of continuity throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of assembly before Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak to you there. 43 “And I will meet with the Israelites there, and it will be consecrated by my glory. 44 And I will consecrate the tent of assembly and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I will consecrate to serve as priests for me. 45 And I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites, and I will be their God. 46 And they will know that I am Yahweh, their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt in order to dwell in their midst. I am Yahweh their God.
- Numbers 28:4 YLT the one lamb thou preparest in the morning, and the second lamb thou preparest between the evenings;
- Daniel 9:21 LEB And I was still speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, in my weariness touched me at the time of the evening offering.
- Psalms 55:17 YLT Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,
- Daniel 6:10 LEB Now when Daniel realized that the document was signed, he went to his house (now he had windows in his upper room that were open toward Jerusalem), and three times daily he knelt on his knees and prayed and gave praise before his God, just as he had been doing previously.
LEXICAL
CONCEPTS
- 12 divisions of a day = hours / 2 halves evening and morning
- the 12 hours are divided into 3 hour guardianships/watches/keeps THIS YIELDS FOUR WATCHES OF DAY & FOUR WATCHES OF NIGHT
- The breastplate חושן it’s model/schema/ for time and lights and appointed meeting times