'Kept' in the Bible

It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.

But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.

For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.