Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'flee' occurs 177 times in the standard works.

38 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'flee' in the standard works and contain 21.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 15 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 30:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

 30:16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

 30:17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.





Josh. 8:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

 8:5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

 8:6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.





Deut. 19:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

 19:3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

 19:4 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;

 19:5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:





1 Ne. 4:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

 4:29 And it came to pass that I called after them, and they did hear me; wherefore they did cease to flee from my presence.

 4:30 And it came to pass that when the servant of Laban beheld my brethren he began to tremble, and was about to flee from before me and return to the city of Jerusalem.

 4:31 And now I, Nephi, being a man large in stature, and also having received much strength of the Lord, therefore I did seize upon the servant of Laban, and held him, that he should not flee.





Mosiah 19:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

 19:9 And the king commanded the people that they should flee before the Lamanites, and he himself did go before them, and they did flee into the wilderness, with their women and their children.

 19:10 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did pursue them, and did overtake them, and began to slay them.

 19:11 Now it came to pass that the king commanded them that all the men should leave their wives and their children, and flee before the Lamanites.





Zech. 14:5 (2 in 1 verse)

 14:5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.





1 Ne. 3:18 (2 in 1 verse)

 3:18 For behold, they have rejected the words of the prophets. Wherefore, if my father should dwell in the land after he hath been commanded to flee out of the land, behold, he would also perish. Wherefore, it must needs be that he flee out of the land.





Alma 17:37 (2 in 1 verse)

 17:37 But behold, every man that lifted his club to smite Ammon, he smote off their arms with his sword; for he did withstand their blows by smiting their arms with the edge of his sword, insomuch that they began to be astonished, and began to flee before him; yea, and they were not few in number; and he caused them to flee by the strength of his arm.





Hel. 15:2 (2 in 1 verse)

 15:2 Yea, except ye repent, your women shall have great cause to mourn in the day that they shall give suck; for ye shall attempt to flee and there shall be no place for refuge; yea, and wo unto them which are with child, for they shall be heavy and cannot flee; therefore, they shall be trodden down and shall be left to perish.





Ether 15:10 (2 in 1 verse)

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