Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wilderness' occurs 571 times in the standard works.

236 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wilderness' in the standard works and contain 41.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 104 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 16:9-16 (10 in 8 verses)

1 Ne. 16:35-17:4 (10 in 9 verses)

Alma 22:27-34 (9 in 8 verses)

1 Ne. 4:33-5:2 (8 in 8 verses)

Mosiah 22:11-23:1 (7 in 7 verses)

Alma 16:2-8 (7 in 7 verses)

1 Ne. 2:2-6 (6 in 5 verses)

Alma 43:22-27 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 50:7-11 (5 in 5 verses)

Ether 14:3-7 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Sam. 26:2-3 (4 in 2 verses)

Omni 1:27-29 (4 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 9:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 2:36-38 (4 in 3 verses)

Num. 14:32-35 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 25:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 58:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 23:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 23:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Omni 1:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 20:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:31-32 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 16:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 33:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 5:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 20:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 7:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 18:25-19:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 17:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 58:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 11:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 4:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 2:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 15:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 10:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 29:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 64:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 7:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 19:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 24:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:34 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:66 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 21:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 8:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 14:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 26:64-65 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 33:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 8:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 32:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 41:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 43:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 1:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 1:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 3:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 5:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 7:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 18:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 2:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 8:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 24:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 56:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 269 0 269
NT 35 0 35
Matt. 5 0 5
Mark 5 0 5
Luke 7 0 7
John 4 0 4
Acts 7 0 7
1 Cor. 1 0 1
2 Cor. 1 0 1
Heb. 2 0 2
Rev. 3 0 3
BM 249 0 249
DC 17 0 17
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 571 0 571

Matt. 3:1
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,

Matt. 3:3
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Matt. 4:1
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Matt. 11:7
And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Matt. 15:33
And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

Mark 1:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Mark 1:4
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

Mark 1:12
And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.

Mark 1:13
And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

Mark 8:4
And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

Luke 3:2
Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

Luke 3:4
As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Luke 4:1
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Luke 5:16
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

Luke 7:24
And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Luke 8:29
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

Luke 15:4
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

John 1:23
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

John 3:14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

John 6:49
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

John 11:54
Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

Acts 7:30
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

Acts 7:36
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Acts 7:38
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

Acts 7:42
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

Acts 7:44
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

Acts 13:18
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

Acts 21:38
Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

1 Cor. 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

2 Cor. 11:26
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

Heb. 3:8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Heb. 3:17
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Rev. 12:6
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Rev. 12:14
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Rev. 17:3
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.