Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ass' occurs 95 times in the standard works.

40 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ass' in the standard works and contain 42.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 17 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 22:21-33 (14 in 13 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:27-29 (4 in 3 verses)

Judg. 15:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 21:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 39:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 9:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 22:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 23:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

John 12:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 81 1852 1933
Gen. 6 134 140
Ex. 11 99 110
Lev. 0 45 45
Num. 15 100 115
Deut. 6 67 73
Josh. 2 147 149
Judg. 8 68 76
Ruth 0 3 3
1 Sam. 6 86 92
2 Sam. 2 59 61
1 Kgs. 9 77 86
2 Kgs. 2 134 136
1 Chr. 0 57 57
2 Chr. 0 117 117
Ezra 0 17 17
Neh. 0 21 21
Esth. 0 7 7
Job 5 33 38
Ps. 0 73 73
Prov. 1 16 17
Eccl. 0 3 3
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 2 142 144
Jer. 2 96 98
Lam. 0 11 11
Ezek. 0 99 99
Dan. 0 38 38
Hosea 1 17 18
Joel 0 8 8
Amos 0 12 12
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 0 4 4
Micah 0 16 16
Nahum 0 6 6
Hab. 0 3 3
Zeph. 0 9 9
Zech. 3 26 29
NT 9 304 313
BM 5 1779 1784
DC 0 205 205
PGP 0 90 90
TOTAL 95 4230 4325

Judg. 1:1
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

Judg. 1:14
And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass=hlgree>ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

Judg. 1:27
Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

Judg. 1:28
And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.

Judg. 2:4
And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

Judg. 2:19
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

Judg. 3:26
And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.

Judg. 3:27
And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.

Judg. 3:28
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.

Judg. 5:10
Speak, ye that ride on white ass=hlblue>asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

Judg. 6:4
And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass=hlgree>ass.

Judg. 6:5
For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

Judg. 6:7
And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord because of the Midianites,

Judg. 6:15
And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

Judg. 6:25
And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

Judg. 6:35
And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

Judg. 7:9
And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.

Judg. 7:12
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

Judg. 7:23
And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.

Judg. 8:4
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.

Judg. 8:33
And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

Judg. 9:42
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

Judg. 10:4
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass=hlgree>ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

Judg. 10:9
Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

Judg. 10:17
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel ass=hlblue>assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.

Judg. 11:4
And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

Judg. 11:17
Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.

Judg. 11:18
Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.

Judg. 11:19
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.

Judg. 11:20
But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

Judg. 11:29
Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.

Judg. 11:32
So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands.

Judg. 11:35
And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.

Judg. 11:39
And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

Judg. 12:1
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.

Judg. 12:3
And when I saw that ye delivered me not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

Judg. 12:4
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

Judg. 12:5
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

Judg. 12:6
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

Judg. 12:14
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass=hlgree>ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

Judg. 13:12
And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

Judg. 13:17
And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

Judg. 13:20
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

Judg. 14:11
And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Judg. 14:15
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not so?

Judg. 14:17
And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

Judg. 15:1
But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

Judg. 15:15
And he found a new jawbone of an ass=hlgree>ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

Judg. 15:16
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass=hlgree>ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass=hlgree>ass have I slain a thousand men.

Judg. 15:17
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi.

Judg. 16:2
And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

Judg. 16:4
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Judg. 16:16
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

Judg. 16:21
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Judg. 16:25
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

Judg. 18:13
And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

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. 19:1
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.

Judg. 19:3
And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of ass=hlblue>asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

Judg. 19:5
And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.

Judg. 19:10
But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which is Jerusalem; and there were with him two ass=hlblue>asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.

Judg. 19:12
And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.

Judg. 19:14
And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.

Judg. 19:18
And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.

Judg. 19:19
Yet there is both straw and provender for our ass=hlblue>asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.

Judg. 19:21
So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the ass=hlblue>asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

Judg. 19:28
And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass=hlgree>ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

Judg. 20:2
And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the ass=hlblue>assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

Judg. 21:3
And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

Judg. 21:4
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Judg. 21:8
And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the Lord? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the ass=hlblue>assembly.