Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'told' occurs 351 times in the standard works.

74 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'told' in the standard works and contain 21.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 31 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 14:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 29:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 17:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 19:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:48-50 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 13:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 10:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 10:3 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 13:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 3:4 (2 in 1 verse)

John 16:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 9:41 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 37:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 45:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 48:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 16:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 4:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 11:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 19:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 25:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 18:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 7:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 8:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 12:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 2:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 24:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)


Mosiah 13:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

 13:3 Touch me not, for God shall smite you if ye lay your hands upon me, for I have not delivered the message which the Lord sent me to deliver; neither have I told you that which ye requested that I should tell; therefore, God will not suffer that I shall be destroyed at this time.

 13:4 But I must fulfil the commandments wherewith God has commanded me; and because I have told you the truth ye are angry with me. And again, because I have spoken the word of God ye have judged me that I am mad.




Alma 20:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 221 0 221
NT 61 2 63
BM 46 1 47
1 Ne. 2 0 2
2 Ne. 3 1 4
Jacob 1 0 1
Mosiah 12 0 12
Alma 14 0 14
Hel. 6 0 6
3 Ne. 5 0 5
Ether 3 0 3
DC 10 1 11
PGP 13 0 13
TOTAL 351 4 355

Mosiah 4:8
And this is the means whereby salvation cometh. And there is none other salvation save this which hath been spoken of; neither are there any conditions whereby man can be saved except the conditions which I have told you.

Mosiah 7:26
And a prophet of the Lord have they slain; yea, a chosen man of God, who told them of their wickedness and abominations, and prophesied of many things which are to come, yea, even the coming of Christ.

Mosiah 8:1
And it came to pass that after king Limhi had made an end of speaking to his people, for he spake many things unto them and only a few of them have I written in this book, he told his people all the things concerning their brethren who were in the land of Zarahemla.

Mosiah 8:6
Now, as soon as Ammon had read the record, the king inquired of him to know if he could interpret languages, and Ammon told him that he could not.

Mosiah 10:19
And now I, Zeniff, after having told all these things unto my people concerning the Lamanites, I did stimulate them to go to battle with their might, putting their trust in the Lord; therefore, we did contend with them, face to face.

Mosiah 13:3
Touch me not, for God shall smite you if ye lay your hands upon me, for I have not delivered the message which the Lord sent me to deliver; neither have I told you that which ye requested that I should tell; therefore, God will not suffer that I shall be destroyed at this time.

Mosiah 13:4
But I must fulfil the commandments wherewith God has commanded me; and because I have told you the truth ye are angry with me. And again, because I have spoken the word of God ye have judged me that I am mad.

Mosiah 19:22
And it came to pass that they were about to return to the land of Nephi, and they met the men of Gideon. And the men of Gideon told them of all that had happened to their wives and their children; and that the Lamanites had granted unto them that they might possess the land by paying a tribute to the Lamanites of one half of all they possessed.

Mosiah 19:23
And the people told the men of Gideon that they had slain the king, and his priests had fled from them farther into the wilderness.

Mosiah 19:24
And it came to pass that after they had ended the ceremony, that they returned to the land of Nephi, rejoicing, because their wives and their children were not slain; and they told Gideon what they had done to the king.

Mosiah 20:23
And now Limhi told the king all the things concerning his father, and the priests that had fled into the wilderness, and attributed the carrying away of their daughters to them.

Mosiah 29:34
And he told them that these things ought not to be; but that the burden should come upon all the people, that every man might bear his part.