Thematic Bible: Keep


Thematic Bible



“When you go out as an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

“Only give heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.








Only the Lord give you discretion and understanding, and give you charge over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

Be very firm, then, to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes,




Then the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today?” And he said, “Yes, I know; be still.”

Many were sternly telling him to be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”


They said to him, “Be silent, put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved.”

Be silent before me so that I may speak;
Then let come on me what may.

“Pay attention, O Job, listen to me;
Keep silent, and let me speak.


Be silent before the Lord God!
For the day of the Lord is near,
For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice,
He has consecrated His guests.

Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord; for He is aroused from His holy habitation.”


A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;
A time to be silent and a time to speak.




But Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout!”




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