108 occurrences

'Kept' in the Bible

because that Abraham hearkened to my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, The Friend Of GodObedienceObeying Godstatuescommandmentsobeying

And he said to them, This is what Jehovah has said: To-morrow is the rest, the holy sabbath, of Jehovah: bake what ye will bake, and cook what ye will cook; and lay up for yourselves all that remains over, to be kept for the morning.

Verse ConceptsCooking, MethodsLaw, Ten CommandmentsSabbaths InstitutedResttomorrowcooking

And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread that I gave you to eat in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DryGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put in it an omer full of manna, and deposit it before Jehovah, to be kept for your generations.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ContentsAaron, Life EventsArk Of The Covenant, PurposeMemorabiliapot

As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so Aaron deposited it before the Testimony, to be kept.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, Function

But if the ox have gored heretofore, and it have been testified to its owner, and he have not kept it in, and it kill a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsHabitsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStriking To DeathAnimals KillingDeath Penalty For ViolenceInstructions About StoningRules About Killing AnimalsUnpremeditated

Or if it be known that the ox have gored heretofore, and its owner have not kept him in, he shall in any case restore ox for ox; and the dead shall be his.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of PunishmentStriking To DeathCorpses Of AnimalsUnpremeditated

Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt-offering; this, the burnt-offering, shall be on the hearth on the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTOvernightBurning Sacrifices

And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning on it: it shall not be put out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt-offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace-offerings.

Verse ConceptsMorning WorshipOfferingsUnceasingBurning SacrificesFirewoodFat Of The Sacrifices

A continual fire shall be kept burning on the altar: it shall never go out.

Verse ConceptsUnceasingBurning SacrificesBurnout

According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, who kept the charge of the sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsEight ThousandAge Ranges Of LevitesCounting Levites

And the prince of princes of the Levites was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: he had the oversight of them that kept the charge of the sanctuary.

And those who encamped before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrising, were Moses, and Aaron and his sons, who kept the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceCamping During The ExodusDanger When God Is Near

And those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: why are we kept back, that we may not present the offering of Jehovah at its set time among the children of Israel?

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

And when the cloud was long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journeyed not.

Verse ConceptsStaying A Long Time

At the commandment of Jehovah they encamped, and at the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed: they kept the charge of Jehovah according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.

Verse ConceptsDivine DirectionSetting OutCamping During The ExodusGod's Orders

And Jehovah said to Moses, Bring Aaron's staff again before the testimony, to be kept as a token for the sons of rebellion, that thou mayest put an end to their murmurings before me, that they may not die.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ContentsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionRebellion, Against GodAaron, Life EventsDeath Due To God's PresenceDo Not GrumbleThings As Signsrebellion

And a clean man shall gather the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the assembly of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, Believers' Growth InAnimal Sacrifices, BurntOutside The CampMeans Of PurifyingClean ObjectsBeing Cleansed From Sin

And now flee thou to thy place; I said I would very highly honour thee, and behold, Jehovah has kept thee back from honour.

Verse ConceptsReward, HumanGod HinderingNo Reward

... of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, of man and of cattle, and gave them to the Levites who kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Who said to his father and to his mother, I see him not, And he acknowledged not his brethren, And knew not his own children; For they have observed thy word, And kept thy covenant.

Verse ConceptsNeglecting PeopleNot Honouring ParentsMothers And Sons

And now behold, Jehovah has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years, since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, when Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

Verse ConceptsAgingMiddle Age40 To 50 Yearswandering

and said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, and have hearkened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodServanthood, In Life Of BelieversObeying People

Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, and ye have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah your God.

Verse ConceptsMissionaries, Task OfUnity, Of God's PeoplePeople Not Abandoning

"In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Ja'el, caravans ceased and travelers kept to the byways.

Verse ConceptsHighwayRoadsTravellersEmpty ThingsCaravansTragedy On The StreetsHighways

The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here," and they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him."

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

So she kept with the maidens of Boaz to glean, until the end of the barley-harvest and of the wheat-harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

Verse ConceptsWheatLiving Together

And Samuel told him all the words, and kept nothing back from him. And he said, It is Jehovah: let him do what is good in his sight.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfAfflicted SaintsResignationTelling Of God

And the cook took up the shoulder, and what was on it, and set it before Saul. And he said, Behold that which has been reserved! set it before thee, eat; for against the set time has it been kept for thee, since I said, I will invite the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of Jehovah thy God which he commanded thee; for now would Jehovah have established thy kingdom over Israel for ever.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples Ofevil, believers' responses toStabilityThey Do Not Keep Commandssaul

But now thy kingdom shall not continue: Jehovah has sought him a man after his own heart, and Jehovah has appointed him ruler over his people; for thou hast not kept what Jehovah commanded thee.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfDavid, Character OfHeart, DivineSpiritualityDisobedience, To GodFalse AccusationsThey Do Not Keep CommandsSaul And David

And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

Verse ConceptsAsceticism, TypesPriests, Function In Ot TimesPurity, Nature OfShowbread

And David answered the priest and said to him, Yes indeed, women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, and the more so, because to-day new is hallowed in the vessels.

Verse ConceptsSpecific Holy Individuals

Now David had said, Surely, in vain have I kept all that this man had in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that was his; and he has requited me evil for good.

Verse ConceptsIngratitudeReward, HumanMannersUseless LabourPeople Actually Doing Evil

And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingNot Avenging

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; but Jehovah has returned Nabal's evil upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her as his wife.

Verse ConceptsDivine RestraintsHeadsRestraintGod Makes Evil ReboundGod VindicatesBless The Lord!

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

Verse ConceptsTrumpets To Stop Fighting

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

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In Ot

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

Verse ConceptsPlea Of Innocence

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:

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleNot Knowing PeopleForeigners Included Among The PeopleHead As ChiefServingpreservation

Why then hast thou not kept the oath of Jehovah, and the commandment that I charged thee with?

Verse ConceptsThey Do Not Keep Commands

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewn unto thy servant David my father great loving-kindness, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great loving-kindness, that thou hast given him a son who sits upon his throne, as it is this day.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtKindnessRighteousness, Of BelieversSittingThroneCharacter Of SaintsGod Showed His Lovingkindness

who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him; thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as at this day.

Verse ConceptsMouths

and had commanded him concerning this thing, not to go after other gods; but he kept not what Jehovah had commanded.

Verse ConceptsDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other godsThey Do Not Keep Commands

And Jehovah said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done by thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes which I commanded thee, I will certainly rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant:

Verse ConceptsBreaking The Covenant

But I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; for I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

Verse ConceptsRulers

and he cried to the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the word of Jehovah, and hast not kept the commandment that Jehovah thy God commanded thee,

and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; and thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do only that which is right in my sight;

Verse ConceptsHeart, And Holy SpiritWhole Heartedness

And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who kept the entrance of the king's house.

Verse ConceptsShields

And Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram kept Ramoth-Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesMurder

And Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Jehovah; and the priests that kept the door put into it all the money brought into the house of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsChestsRight SidesMoney Box

Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.

Verse ConceptsBreaking God's Lawcommandments

And he clave to Jehovah, and did not turn aside from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsSteadfastness, Examples OfClinging To God

And Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah which he kept not, and also for having inquired of the spirit of Python, asking counsel of it;

Verse ConceptsLast ThingsMediumsSin, God's Judgment OnSin, Nature OfUnfaithfulness, To GodWord Of GodOccultismPunishment Of the WickedNames And Titles For The ChristianNecromancypsychics

Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he kept still close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men who helped him in the conflict;

Verse ConceptsConflict

and they kept the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsResponsibilityPerspective

who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him; thou spokest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thy hand as at this day.

Verse ConceptsMouths

And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

Verse Conceptscelebrating

And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who kept the entrance of the king's house.

Verse ConceptsBrass

And they came to Hilkijah the high priest, and they delivered to them the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSamaritans

Go, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book which is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according to all that is written in this book.

Verse ConceptsRemnantWord Of God

to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtSeventy70 To 80 Years

And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy;

Verse ConceptsecstasyCelebrationsJoy, Of IsraelDedication

and they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for Jehovah had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfJoy, Of IsraelWeeksSeven DaysGod EncouragingRejoicing In God's Works

We have acted very perversely against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances that thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

Verse ConceptsServants Of The LordBreaking God's Law

And the doorkeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two.

Verse ConceptsGatekeepersGatesPortersA Hundred And Some

And, with the singers and the doorkeepers, they kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David and of Solomon his son.

In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the threshold, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayAttempting To Kill Specific People

Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.

Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being Silent

Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...

Verse ConceptsPeople Being Silent

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent man.

Verse ConceptsEvil WaysLipsBible, Given ForAvoiding ViolenceAvoiding EvilSatan as DestroyerPaths

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

Verse ConceptsNot Forsaking Godapostasy

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

Verse ConceptsPlea Of Innocence

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

Verse ConceptsDecayWasteConviction Of SinConfession of sin

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Verse ConceptsRebukeSilenceSecurity, FalseInfidelity To GodGod Being SilentThe Same As GodGod Requite Them!Thoughtsaccusations

But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

Verse ConceptsTesting GodThey Do Not Keep Commands

He spoke unto them in the pillar of cloud: they kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.

Verse ConceptsGod SpeakingOld Testament Claims Inspiration

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies; for all my ways are before thee.

Verse ConceptsMan's WaysGod, All knowingI Keep The Commandments

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.

Verse ConceptsEvil EyesReward For WorksSelf LoveBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Life

There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsMisersHoardingStoring Treasure On EarthUnder The SunTragedy

Look not upon me, because I am black; Because the sun hath looked upon me. My mother's children were angry with me: They made me keeper of the vineyards; Mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Verse ConceptsAfrican AmericansScorchingLooking Intently At PeopleBlack PeopleUnnamed People Angry With OthersSunMothers And SonsColorSunshine

I kept still until the morning; ... as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Verse ConceptsDawnBones BrokenGod Like A LionLike CreaturesPeople Ended

then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

Verse ConceptsBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsThey Do Not Keep Commands

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his injunctions, and have done according unto all that he hath commanded you;

Verse ConceptsObeying People

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have been turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine ordinances, nor even have done according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;

Verse ConceptsCitizenshipThey Do Not Keep Commands

hath walked in my statutes, and kept mine ordinances, to deal faithfully: he is righteous, he shall certainly live, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodIf You Keep The Commandments

And ye say, Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? But the son hath done judgment and justice, hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them; he shall certainly live.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltSins Of The FathersResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsFathers Responsibilities

And the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live by them; they profaned my sabbaths: and I said I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish mine anger against them in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsJudgement In The WildernessIf You Keep The CommandmentsLife Through Keeping The LawSabbath ViolatedThey Do Not Keep CommandsWorks Of The Law

And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase; and they shall be in safety in their land, and shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them out of the hand of those that kept them in servitude.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalYokesLand ProducingGod Saving From EnemiesGod Freeing CaptivesGod Will Keep SafeBreaking Chains

And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things, but have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners In The Holy Places

But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall approach unto me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to present unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To Goddrawing near to GodBlood Of SacrificesServanthood, And Worship Of GodPeople Going AstrayFat Of The Sacrifices

It shall be for the priests that are hallowed of the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge and went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodPeople Going Astray

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