Thematic Bible: Keep


Thematic Bible



When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;








Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

So be very strong to keep and do whatever is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, not turning away from it to the right or to the left;

And it is to be with him for his reading all the days of his life, so that he may be trained in the fear of the Lord his God to keep and do all the words of this teaching and these laws:


I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.


And at Beth-el the sons of the prophets came out to Elisha and said, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more.

And some of them, turning in protest, gave him an order to be quiet: but he went on crying out all the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.


And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.

Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

Take note O Job, give ear to me; keep quiet, while I say what is in my mind.


Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.

Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.


A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;




And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry.




Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain