8 occurrences

'Maintained' in the Bible

And Joseph maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good KidsAccording To PeopleFamily Strength

And Barzillai was very aged, eighty years old; and it was he that had maintained the king while he abode at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialPeople ProvidingWealthy People

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

Verse ConceptsHousesWidowsAbsence Of SexTen PeopleIndividuals going homeActual Widows

and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water);

Verse ConceptsBad InfluenceCavesProphets, Lives OfSchool Of ProphetsWaterLove to Others, Examples OfFiftiesOne HundredPeople In CavesKilling ProphetsPeople Hiding PeopleProphets Killedprophetsjezebelhidinggroups

Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah's prophets by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water?

Verse ConceptsSchool Of ProphetsFiftiesOne HundredPeople In CavesKilling ProphetsPeople Hiding PeopleProphets Killedjezebel

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou sittest on the throne, judging righteously.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfGod VindicatesFavorfairnessadvertising

Maintained for ever and ever, done in truth and uprightness.

Verse ConceptsEternal Truth

His heart is maintained, he is not afraid, until he see his desire upon his oppressors.

Verse ConceptsVictory, As An Act Of GodFearlessnessFreed From Fearfearless

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