Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'war' occurs 365 times in the standard works.

116 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'war' in the standard works and contain 31.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 53 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Chr. 12:33-38 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 44:6-11 (6 in 6 verses)

Num. 31:3-6 (5 in 4 verses)

Alma 2:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 52:36-39 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Chr. 5:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 55:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 12:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 20:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 54:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 56:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 56:54-56 (3 in 3 verses)

Morm. 1:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 87:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 2:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 3:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jarom 1:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 10:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:41 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 8:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 15:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 31:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 20:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 11:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 18:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 11:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 15:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 13:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

James 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 20:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 44:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 44:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 52:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 53:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 54:24-55:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 55:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 62:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 210 958 1168
Gen. 1 58 59
Ex. 5 50 55
Lev. 0 38 38
Num. 31 94 125
Deut. 10 54 64
Josh. 17 72 89
Judg. 11 23 34
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 8 29 37
2 Sam. 9 17 26
1 Kgs. 10 33 43
2 Kgs. 8 20 28
1 Chr. 24 31 55
2 Chr. 18 34 52
Ezra 0 6 6
Neh. 0 14 14
Esth. 0 3 3
Job 3 19 22
Ps. 7 47 54
Prov. 2 35 37
Eccl. 3 9 12
Song. 1 3 4
Isa. 9 41 50
Jer. 19 29 48
Lam. 0 2 2
Ezek. 6 150 156
Dan. 2 19 21
Hosea 0 6 6
Joel 3 3 6
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 0 2 2
Micah 3 2 5
Hag. 0 3 3
Zech. 0 10 10
NT 15 227 242
BM 131 333 464
DC 8 188 196
PGP 1 23 24
TOTAL 365 1729 2094

1 Chr. 2:21
And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

1 Chr. 5:9
And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

1 Chr. 5:10
And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.

1 Chr. 5:18
The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

1 Chr. 5:19
And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.

1 Chr. 5:22
For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.

1 Chr. 7:4
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.

1 Chr. 7:11
All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

1 Chr. 7:28
And their possessions and habitations were, Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:

1 Chr. 7:40
All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

1 Chr. 9:18
Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

1 Chr. 9:23
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.

1 Chr. 9:24
In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

1 Chr. 12:1
Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

1 Chr. 12:8
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

1 Chr. 12:15
These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.

1 Chr. 12:23
And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord.

1 Chr. 12:24
The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

1 Chr. 12:25
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.

1 Chr. 12:29
And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.

1 Chr. 12:33
Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.

1 Chr. 12:35
And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.

1 Chr. 12:36
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.

1 Chr. 12:37
And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.

1 Chr. 12:38
All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

1 Chr. 18:10
He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

1 Chr. 20:4
And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.

1 Chr. 20:5
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.

1 Chr. 20:6
And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.

1 Chr. 22:8
But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

1 Chr. 23:3
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

1 Chr. 23:4
Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and judges:

1 Chr. 23:24
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of twenty years and upward.

1 Chr. 25:8
And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

1 Chr. 26:12
Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord.

1 Chr. 26:14
And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

1 Chr. 26:15
To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.

1 Chr. 26:16
To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.

1 Chr. 26:17
Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.

1 Chr. 26:18
At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.

1 Chr. 26:29
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

1 Chr. 26:30
And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the Lord, and in the service of the king.

1 Chr. 28:1
And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.

1 Chr. 28:3
But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.