Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'image' occurs 126 times in the standard works.

68 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'image' in the standard works and contain 54% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 18:14-20 (7 in 7 verses)

 18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

 18:15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.

 18:16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.

 18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

 18:18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

 18:19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

 18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.




Dan. 2:31-35 (5 in 5 verses)

Dan. 3:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

Judg. 17:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

Rev. 13:14-15 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 26:1 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 7:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 1:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 2:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

Abr. 4:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 48:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 10:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Nahum 1:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Hab. 2:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 15:49 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 20:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 3:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 1:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 18:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 40:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 44:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 3:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 75 76 151
Gen. 5 5 10
Ex. 1 3 4
Lev. 3 1 4
Num. 0 1 1
Deut. 7 4 11
Judg. 13 0 13
1 Sam. 2 3 5
2 Sam. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 0 2 2
2 Kgs. 3 8 11
2 Chr. 2 13 15
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 2 3 5
Isa. 9 10 19
Jer. 4 6 10
Ezek. 2 8 10
Dan. 16 0 16
Hosea 1 4 5
Amos 0 1 1
Micah 0 3 3
Nahum 2 0 2
Hab. 2 0 2
NT 26 0 26
BM 13 3 16
DC 4 0 4
PGP 8 0 8
TOTAL 126 79 205

Judg. 17:3
And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

Judg. 17:4
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

Judg. 18:14
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

Judg. 18:17
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

Judg. 18:18
And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

Judg. 18:20
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Judg. 18:30
And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

Judg. 18:31
And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.