Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'handmaid' occurs 50 times in the standard works.

23 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'handmaid' in the standard works and contain 46% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 10 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 25:24-28 (5 in 5 verses)


2 Sam. 14:15-19 (5 in 5 verses)

 14:15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

 14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

 14:17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee.

 14:18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

 14:19 And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:




1 Sam. 1:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Ruth 3:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 35:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 28:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:51-52 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 44 10 54
Gen. 7 3 10
Ex. 1 0 1
Judg. 1 0 1
Ruth 3 1 4
1 Sam. 14 0 14
2 Sam. 9 1 10
1 Kgs. 3 0 3
2 Kgs. 2 0 2
Ps. 2 0 2
Prov. 1 0 1
Isa. 0 1 1
Jer. 1 3 4
Joel 0 1 1
NT 1 2 3
BM 0 1 1
DC 5 0 5
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 50 13 63

2 Sam. 6:20
Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

2 Sam. 14:6
And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.

2 Sam. 14:7
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

2 Sam. 14:12
Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

2 Sam. 14:15
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

2 Sam. 14:16
For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

2 Sam. 14:17
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the Lord thy God will be with thee.

2 Sam. 14:19
And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:

2 Sam. 20:17
And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.