27 occurrences

'Kept' in the Bible

And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsChariotsHorsesThousandsEleven To Nineteen Thousand

And the Lord has kept his word; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made the house for the name of the Lord the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsThrone

For you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.

Verse ConceptsMouths

King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.

Verse ConceptsGoatsTwenty Thousand And UpOne Hundred Thousand And MoreSacrificesDedicationSacrifice

So Solomon kept the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath and from as far as the river of Egypt.

And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsCavalry

Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsMangersAccumulatingCavalryFour ThousandEleven To Nineteen Thousand

Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

Verse ConceptsYokesApproval To Kill Oneself

Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

Verse ConceptsFortified Cities

And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:

And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

Verse ConceptsLetters

But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him and the woman who took care of him in a bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, kept him safe from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsNursesSistersNamed Sisters

And she kept him safe with her in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah was ruling the land.

Verse ConceptsSix Years

Then Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's and which were kept in the house of God.

But he did not put their children to death, for he kept the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses, saying, The fathers are not to be put to death for their children or the children for their fathers, but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

Verse ConceptsBook of the Law

So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law.

Verse ConceptsLargeness

So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsHeraldRevival, CorporateInfidelity To GodMissionary Examples

So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy: and the Levites and the priests gave praise to the Lord day by day, making melody to the Lord with loud instruments.

Verse ConceptsSingingPraise, Should Be Offered ByGladnessExcitement

And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord: so they kept the feast for seven days, offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers.

Verse ConceptsFellowship Offeringencouragement, examples of

And by the desire of all the people, the feast went on for another seven days, and they kept the seven days with joy.

Verse ConceptsSeven Days

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book.

Verse ConceptsRemnantWord Of God

And he made all the people in Jerusalem and Benjamin give their word to keep it. And the people of Jerusalem kept the agreement of God, the God of their fathers.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodGuarantee

And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.

Verse ConceptsYearsThe Number Fourteen

And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.

Verse ConceptsFeastingWeeks

No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

In the eighteenth year of the rule of Josiah this Passover was kept.

So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtSeventy70 To 80 Years

Bible Theasaurus

Celebrate (93 instances)
Continue (334 instances)
Maintain (89 instances)
Observe (357 instances)
Prevent (56 instances)
Proceed (70 instances)
Retain (38 instances)
Sustain (46 instances)

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