by companies

2 Kings 6:23
So the king prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. And the Aramean raiders did not come into the land of Israel again.

2 Kings 13:20
And Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.

Judges 9:34
So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

1 Samuel 13:17, 18
And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual, . . .

waited on [heb] was before

Psalm 123:2
As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.