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So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”

“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’

May He incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances He commanded our fathers.

So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.

If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”

…and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.

So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”

And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.

So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,

…to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.

Above all, may the LORD give you insight and understanding when He puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the Law of the LORD your God.

So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

O LORD, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire forever in the intentions of the hearts of Your people, and direct their hearts toward You.

And give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and carry out all Your commandments, decrees, and statutes, and to build Your palace for which I have made provision.”

Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

This is what you are to do: A third of you priests and Levites who come on duty on the Sabbath shall keep watch at the doors,

Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.

For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,

…since they had been unable to keep it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.

So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it in great numbers as prescribed.

So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

…but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

And I told them, “Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While the guards are on duty, keep the doors shut and securely fastened. And appoint the residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some at their own homes.”

Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.

“Keep your money,” said the king to Haman. “These people are given to you to do with them as you please.”

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?

They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

…to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,

He does not keep the wicked alive, but He grants justice to the afflicted.

Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?

I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

You, O LORD, will keep us; You will forever guard us from this generation.

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.

All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.

…to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

I will keep watch for You, O my strength, because You, O God, are my fortress.

They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

…if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

…to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

…that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!

Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.

You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.

I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.

Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.

In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.

The LORD is my portion; I have promised to keep Your words.

I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.

I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

Redeem me from the oppression of man, that I may keep Your precepts.

I call to You; save me, that I may keep Your testimonies.

I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.

If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.

Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.

Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.

So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;

…for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

…he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.

Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.

Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

…to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

…that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.

…for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.