Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'behold' occurs 3511 times in the standard works.

1701 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'behold' in the standard works and contain 48.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 776 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jacob 5:16-38 (24 in 23 verses)

2 Ne. 26:23-27:12 (23 in 23 verses)

Alma 60:23-61:6 (22 in 20 verses)

Alma 32:27-33:2 (21 in 19 verses)

Alma 54:9-55:3 (19 in 19 verses)

Hel. 13:30-14:6 (17 in 16 verses)

Hel. 8:16-9:4 (17 in 17 verses)

Morm. 7:9-8:13 (15 in 15 verses)

Ether 2:19-3:6 (14 in 13 verses)

Alma 60:1-14 (14 in 14 verses)

Alma 7:1-13 (13 in 13 verses)

Hel. 5:26-38 (13 in 13 verses)

Alma 5:3-14 (12 in 12 verses)

Hel. 13:3-14 (12 in 12 verses)

Alma 57:28-58:1 (11 in 10 verses)

Alma 25:17-26:7 (9 in 8 verses)

2 Ne. 31:19-32:6 (9 in 9 verses)

Alma 26:26-34 (9 in 9 verses)

Hel. 7:19-24 (8 in 6 verses)


Hel. 12:15-20 (8 in 6 verses)

 12:15 And thus, according to his word the earth goeth back, and it appeareth unto man that the sun standeth still; yea, and behold, this is so; for surely it is the earth that moveth and not the sun.

 12:16 And behold, also, if he say unto the waters of the great deep-- Be thou dried up-- it is done.

 12:17 Behold, if he say unto this mountain-- Be thou raised up, and come over and fall upon that city, that it be buried up-- behold it is done.

 12:18 And behold, if a man hide up a treasure in the earth, and the Lord shall say-- Let it be accursed, because of the iniquity of him who hath hid it up-- behold, it shall be accursed.

 12:19 And if the Lord shall say-- Be thou accursed, that no man shall find thee from this time henceforth and forever-- behold, no man getteth it henceforth and forever.

 12:20 And behold, if the Lord shall say unto a man-- Because of thine iniquities, thou shalt be accursed forever-- it shall be done.




Omni 1:9-15 (8 in 7 verses)

Alma 34:28-35 (8 in 8 verses)

D&C 23:1-24:1 (8 in 8 verses)

1 Ne. 3:13-19 (7 in 7 verses)

Jacob 5:42-48 (7 in 7 verses)

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