Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'early' occurs 93 times in the standard works.

13 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'early' in the standard works and contain 14% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 29:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

 29:10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

 29:11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.




D&C 88:124 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 19:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 5:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 25:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 35:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 75 11 86
Gen. 7 0 7
Ex. 5 0 5
Lev. 0 1 1
Num. 1 0 1
Josh. 6 0 6
Judg. 9 2 11
1 Sam. 9 4 13
2 Sam. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 3 0 3
2 Chr. 2 0 2
Neh. 0 1 1
Esth. 0 1 1
Job 1 1 2
Ps. 8 0 8
Prov. 3 0 3
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 3 0 3
Jer. 11 1 12
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 3 0 3
Zeph. 1 0 1
NT 11 13 24
BM 1 19 20
DC 4 3 7
PGP 2 2 4
TOTAL 93 48 141

1 Sam. 1:3
And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

1 Sam. 1:19
And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her.

1 Sam. 1:21
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

1 Sam. 2:19
Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

1 Sam. 5:3
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

1 Sam. 5:4
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

1 Sam. 9:26
And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

1 Sam. 15:12
And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

1 Sam. 17:20
And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.

1 Sam. 20:6
If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

1 Sam. 29:10
Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

1 Sam. 29:11
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.