Holding

The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

So when David returned from killing the Philistine, still holding his head in his hand, Abner took him and brought him before Saul.

The next day a spirit of distress sent from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the house while David played the harp as usual. Now Saul was holding a spear,

…saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”

When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.

…restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

At that time they were holding a notorious prisoner named Barabbas.

Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.

The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

…holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.

For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.

After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.