But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.
2 Samuel 22:22
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
2 Samuel 22:24
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
2 Samuel 22:44
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.