'Kept' in the Bible

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab kept back the people.

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

And I was upright before him, And kept myself from mine iniquity.

And thou hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, Thou hast kept me to be head of the nations: A people I knew not doth serve me: