Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'place' occurs 1003 times in the standard works.

311 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'place' in the standard works and contain 31% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 121 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 41:9-15 (7 in 7 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:6-10 (5 in 5 verses)

Jer. 19:3-7 (5 in 5 verses)

Gen. 38:21-22 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:29-30 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 6:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 49:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)


Deut. 14:23-25 (4 in 3 verses)

 14:23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

 14:24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

 14:25 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:




JS-H 1:62-64 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 28:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 28:11 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 23:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Lev. 10:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 16:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 5:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 16:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 42:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 45:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 57:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 69:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 19:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 35:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 6:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 14:40-42 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 9:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 6:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 6:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 6:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 19:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 12:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 66:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 93:48-50 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 111:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 26:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 16:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 20:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 32:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 16:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 16:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 26:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 26:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:10 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 17:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 8:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 32:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 46:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 49:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 60:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 12:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 43:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 27:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 6:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 15:22 (2 in 1 verse)

John 19:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 21:28 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 21:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Enos 1:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 20:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 41:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 47:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 4:16 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 6:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 8:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 9:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 29:38 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 48:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 79:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 97:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:20 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:42 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:50 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 13:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 22:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 28:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 26:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 29:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 10:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 12:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 16:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 17:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 22:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 22:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 34:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 34:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 8:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 27:23-28:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 4:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 7:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 16:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 22:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 46:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

John 14:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 6:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 4:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 15:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 14:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 8:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:128-129 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 90:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 100:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:59-60 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 610 230 840
Gen. 48 10 58
Ex. 26 8 34
Lev. 37 1 38
Num. 26 4 30
Deut. 40 4 44
Josh. 13 1 14
Judg. 19 5 24
Ruth 3 0 3
1 Sam. 32 4 36
2 Sam. 18 6 24
1 Kgs. 29 13 42
2 Kgs. 15 30 45
1 Chr. 16 1 17
2 Chr. 39 20 59
Ezra 11 0 11
Neh. 10 4 14
Esth. 3 0 3
Job 28 6 34
Ps. 24 19 43
Prov. 6 4 10
Eccl. 10 0 10
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 37 18 55
Jer. 46 32 78
Lam. 0 3 3
Ezek. 48 22 70
Dan. 3 1 4
Hosea 6 2 8
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 1 3 4
Micah 2 3 5
Nahum 2 1 3
Hab. 0 2 2
Zeph. 3 0 3
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 6 1 7
Mal. 1 1 2
NT 105 22 127
BM 146 57 203
DC 120 38 158
PGP 22 6 28
TOTAL 1003 353 1356

Deut. 1:7
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

Deut. 1:31
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

Deut. 1:33
Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

Deut. 2:37
Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbad us.

Deut. 9:7
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.

Deut. 11:5
And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;

Deut. 11:24
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

Deut. 12:2
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

Deut. 12:3
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

Deut. 12:5
But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

Deut. 12:11
Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:

Deut. 12:13
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

Deut. 12:14
But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

Deut. 12:18
But thou must eat them before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.

Deut. 12:21
If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

Deut. 12:26
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose:

Deut. 14:23
And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

Deut. 14:24
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

Deut. 14:25
Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:

Deut. 15:20
Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household.

Deut. 16:2
Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there.

Deut. 16:6
But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

Deut. 16:7
And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

Deut. 16:11
And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

Deut. 16:15
Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

Deut. 16:16
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:

Deut. 17:8
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;

Deut. 17:10
And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:

Deut. 18:6
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose;

Deut. 21:19
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

Deut. 23:12
Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

Deut. 23:16
He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

Deut. 26:2
That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there.

Deut. 26:9
And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deut. 27:15
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Deut. 29:7
And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

Deut. 31:11
When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Deut. 32:13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

Deut. 33:29
Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.