'Kept' in the Bible

Now Absalom fled. And the young man who kept watch looked up, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain.

“For I have kept the ways of the Lord,And have not acted wickedly against my God.

“I was also blameless before Him,And kept myself from wrongdoing.

“You also have rescued me from strife with my [own] people;You have kept me as the head of the nations.People whom I have not known served me.