Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'drive' occurs 81 times in the standard works.

22 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'drive' in the standard works and contain 27.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 1:27-33 (7 in 7 verses)

Ex. 23:28-31 (4 in 4 verses)


Deut. 9:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

 9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.

 9:4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.

 9:5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.




Ether 1:38 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 2:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 4:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 56 50 106
Gen. 0 2 2
Ex. 7 2 9
Num. 4 1 5
Deut. 6 3 9
Josh. 9 1 10
Judg. 12 0 12
1 Sam. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 0 1 1
2 Kgs. 1 1 2
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Job 2 5 7
Ps. 2 5 7
Prov. 1 2 3
Isa. 1 3 4
Jer. 4 14 18
Ezek. 1 3 4
Dan. 2 3 5
Hosea 1 1 2
Joel 1 0 1
Micah 0 1 1
Zeph. 1 1 2
NT 1 6 7
BM 21 77 98
DC 3 8 11
PGP 0 2 2
TOTAL 81 143 224

Deut. 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Deut. 4:38
To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

Deut. 9:3
Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.

Deut. 9:4
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.

Deut. 9:5
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deut. 11:23
Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

Deut. 18:12
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Deut. 30:1
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

Deut. 30:4
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: