Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'escape' occurs 79 times in the standard works.

19 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'escape' in the standard works and contain 24.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 19:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 104:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 27:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 44:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)


Jer. 50:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

 50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.

 50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.




Ezek. 6:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 51 54 105
Gen. 6 1 7
Ex. 0 1 1
Num. 0 1 1
Deut. 0 1 1
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 0 5 5
1 Sam. 2 9 11
2 Sam. 2 2 4
1 Kgs. 1 3 4
2 Kgs. 3 2 5
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 0 4 4
Ezra 1 1 2
Neh. 0 1 1
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 1 5 6
Ps. 4 2 6
Prov. 1 0 1
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 3 6 9
Jer. 14 3 17
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 6 4 10
Dan. 2 0 2
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 0 1 1
Obad. 1 0 1
NT 8 10 18
BM 6 5 11
DC 14 1 15
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 79 70 149

Jer. 11:11
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

Jer. 25:35
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

Jer. 32:4
And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

Jer. 34:3
And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

Jer. 38:18
But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

Jer. 38:23
So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

Jer. 41:15
But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

Jer. 42:17
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

Jer. 44:14
So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

Jer. 44:28
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

Jer. 46:6
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

Jer. 48:8
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the Lord hath spoken.

Jer. 48:19
O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?

Jer. 50:28
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.

Jer. 50:29
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jer. 51:50
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.