Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'gather' occurs 262 times in the standard works.

46 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'gather' in the standard works and contain 17.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 19 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 22:19-21 (4 in 3 verses)

 22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

 22:20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

 22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.




Matt. 13:28-30 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 3:21-24 (4 in 4 verses)

Zeph. 3:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 88:111-113 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 54:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 2:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Zeph. 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 6:44 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 22:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 49:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 16:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 16:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 19:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 28:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 30:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:64-65 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 142 252 394
Gen. 6 17 23
Ex. 10 15 25
Lev. 8 3 11
Num. 6 24 30
Deut. 10 5 15
Josh. 0 5 5
Judg. 0 22 22
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 1 19 20
2 Sam. 2 12 14
1 Kgs. 1 7 8
2 Kgs. 2 8 10
1 Chr. 3 7 10
2 Chr. 2 24 26
Ezra 1 4 5
Neh. 3 5 8
Esth. 3 5 8
Job 4 3 7
Ps. 8 10 18
Prov. 1 5 6
Eccl. 2 1 3
Song. 1 1 2
Isa. 13 22 35
Jer. 14 8 22
Ezek. 15 7 22
Dan. 1 2 3
Hosea 2 2 4
Joel 6 0 6
Amos 0 1 1
Obad. 0 1 1
Micah 4 3 7
Nahum 1 1 2
Hab. 2 1 3
Zeph. 6 0 6
Zech. 3 2 5
NT 23 51 74
BM 60 112 172
DC 34 43 77
PGP 3 9 12
TOTAL 262 467 729

Ezek. 11:17
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

Ezek. 16:37
Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

Ezek. 20:34
And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

Ezek. 20:41
I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.

Ezek. 22:19
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Ezek. 22:20
As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

Ezek. 22:21
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

Ezek. 24:4
Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

Ezek. 28:25
Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

Ezek. 29:5
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

Ezek. 29:13
Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:

Ezek. 34:13
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

Ezek. 36:24
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

Ezek. 37:21
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

Ezek. 38:8
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

Ezek. 38:12
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

Ezek. 38:13
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

Ezek. 39:17
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

Ezek. 39:27
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

Ezek. 39:28
Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.