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- Judges 2:22
· BSB · 2 occurrences
In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”
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- Judges 7:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.
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- Judges 13:4
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Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
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- Judges 13:13
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So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.
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- Judges 13:14
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She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
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- 1 Samuel 1:12
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As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.
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- 1 Samuel 2:9
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He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
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- 1 Samuel 7:1
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Then the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the LORD and took it into Abinadab’s house on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the ark of the LORD.
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- 1 Samuel 9:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the cook picked up the leg and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Here is what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this occasion, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul dined with Samuel that day.
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- 1 Samuel 13:13
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“You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
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- 1 Samuel 13:14
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But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought a man after His own heart and appointed him ruler over His people, because you have not kept the command of the LORD.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:20
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So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
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- 1 Samuel 17:22
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Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.
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- 1 Samuel 19:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.
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- 1 Samuel 19:11
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Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
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- 1 Samuel 21:4
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“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
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Source alternate reference: 21.5
- 1 Samuel 25:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now David had just said, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
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- 1 Samuel 26:15
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So David said to Abner, “You are a man, aren’t you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?
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- 1 Samuel 26:16
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This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”
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- 1 Samuel 28:2
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David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
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- 1 Samuel 30:23
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But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us.
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- 2 Samuel 11:16
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So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were.
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- 2 Samuel 15:16
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Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.
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- 2 Samuel 16:21
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Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
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- 2 Samuel 18:12
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The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
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- 2 Samuel 20:3
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When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
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- 2 Samuel 20:10
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Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.
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- 2 Samuel 22:22
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For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
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- 2 Samuel 22:24
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And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
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- 2 Samuel 22:44
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You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
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- 2 Samuel 23:5
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Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
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- 1 Kings 2:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And keep the charge of the LORD your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,
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- 1 Kings 2:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
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- 1 Kings 2:43
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So why have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the command that I gave you?”
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- 1 Kings 3:6
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Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
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- 1 Kings 3:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”
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- 1 Kings 6:12
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“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.
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- 1 Kings 8:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
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- 1 Kings 8:24
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You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.
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- 1 Kings 8:25
· BSB · 2 occurrences
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.’
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- 1 Kings 8:58
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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- 1 Kings 8:61
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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.”
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- 1 Kings 9:4
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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,
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- 1 Kings 9:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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,
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- 1 Kings 11:10
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Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
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- 1 Kings 11:11
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Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
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- 1 Kings 11:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
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- 1 Kings 11:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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- 1 Kings 13:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
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- 1 Kings 14:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
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