Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'fire' occurs 702 times in the standard works.

265 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'fire' in the standard works and contain 37.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 108 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 14:8-15 (8 in 8 verses)

Mark 9:43-49 (7 in 7 verses)

Ezek. 15:4-7 (6 in 4 verses)

Dan. 3:22-27 (6 in 6 verses)

Deut. 5:22-26 (5 in 5 verses)


2 Kgs. 1:10-14 (5 in 5 verses)

 1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

 1:11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.

 1:12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

 1:13 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

 1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.




James 3:5-6 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 1:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

Lev. 9:24-10:2 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:23-25 (4 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 5:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

Lev. 1:17-2:3 (4 in 4 verses)

Num. 31:23 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 19:12 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 1:13 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:52 (3 in 1 verse)

Lev. 23:36-37 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:30-31 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 66:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 36:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 39:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Rev. 9:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 5:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 12:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 2:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 3:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 11:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 3:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 3:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:45-47 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 25:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 5:43-45 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 9:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 3:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 22:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 4:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 32:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 83:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 44:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 47:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 50:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 64:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:58 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 1:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 8:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 12:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 7:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 6:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 14:18 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 17:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 133:41 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 22:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 9:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 13:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 1:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 6:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 6:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 6:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 9:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 15:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 28:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 4:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 5:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 15:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 18:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 26:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 9:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 10:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 33:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 38:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 43:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 10:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 21:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 22:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 24:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 1:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 18:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 22:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 8:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 20:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 20:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 19:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 20:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 10:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 19:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 466 10 476
Gen. 3 0 3
Ex. 24 2 26
Lev. 74 0 74
Num. 37 0 37
Deut. 30 0 30
Josh. 9 0 9
Judg. 15 2 17
1 Sam. 4 0 4
2 Sam. 6 0 6
1 Kgs. 10 0 10
2 Kgs. 17 1 18
1 Chr. 2 0 2
2 Chr. 6 0 6
Neh. 6 0 6
Job 8 0 8
Ps. 29 0 29
Prov. 6 1 7
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 38 2 40
Jer. 42 1 43
Lam. 4 0 4
Ezek. 53 0 53
Dan. 8 0 8
Hosea 2 0 2
Joel 5 0 5
Amos 9 1 10
Obad. 1 0 1
Micah 2 0 2
Nahum 3 0 3
Hab. 1 0 1
Zeph. 2 0 2
Zech. 7 0 7
Mal. 2 0 2
NT 83 0 83
BM 118 2 120
DC 32 0 32
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 702 13 715

2 Kgs. 1:10
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

2 Kgs. 1:12
And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

2 Kgs. 1:14
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.

2 Kgs. 2:11
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2 Kgs. 6:17
And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

2 Kgs. 8:12
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

2 Kgs. 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

2 Kgs. 17:17
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kgs. 17:31
And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

2 Kgs. 19:18
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

2 Kgs. 21:6
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kgs. 23:10
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

2 Kgs. 23:11
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

2 Kgs. 25:9
And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.

2 Kgs. 25:15
And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.