'Guards' in the Bible

So Gideon and the hundred men who [were] with him came to the edge of the camp [at] the beginning of the middle night-watch, when they had just finished setting up the guards, and they blew on the trumpets and smashed the jars that [were] in their hands.

Then all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down, and its altars and its images they broke completely into pieces. Mattan the priest of Baal they killed in front of the altars. Then the priest put guards over the house of Yahweh.

So they and their sons [were] over the gates of the house of Yahweh at the house of the tent as guards.

And King Rehoboam made small shields of bronze in their place and committed them into the hand of the commanders of the guards who were keeping the entrance of the house of the king.

And whenever the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guards came and carried them, and then they returned them to the alcove of the guards.

I said to them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While they are standing guard let them shut and fasten the doors. And appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his post and another opposite his house."

Unless Yahweh builds a house, its builders labor at it in vain. Unless Yahweh guards a city, a guard watches in vain.

[On] the path to life is he who guards instruction, but he who rejects rebuke goes astray.

He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin [belongs] to him.

Poverty and disgrace [belong to] him who ignores instruction, but he who guards reproof will be honored.

A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent.

The highway of the upright, it turns from evil, he who guards himself keeps his way.

He who acquires wisdom loves himself; he who guards understanding [loves] to find good.

He who guards commandments guards his life; he who is careless of his ways will be killed.

He who guards his mouth and his tongue, he guards his life from danger.

Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep away from them.

He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.

When there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but as for he who guards instruction, happiness [is] his.

When the guards of the house tremble, and the men of strength are bent; the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows see dimly.

And he commanded {the strongest men of the guards} who [were] in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and to throw [them] into the furnace of blazing fire.

And the guards trembled from the fear of him and became like dead men.

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are {safe}.

saying, "We found the prison locked with all security and the guards standing at the doors, but [when we] opened [them], we found no one inside!"

Now when Herod was about to bring him [out], on that [very] night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were watching the prison.

And [when] Herod had searched for him and did not find [him], he questioned the guards [and] ordered [that they] be led away to execution. And he came down from Judea to Caesarea [and] stayed [there].