Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'appoint' occurs 87 times in the standard works.

16 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'appoint' in the standard works and contain 18.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 7 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 21:19-22 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 49:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 50:44 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 8:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 51:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 37 111 148
Gen. 2 4 6
Ex. 2 2 4
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 6 5 11
Josh. 1 3 4
Judg. 0 4 4
1 Sam. 2 7 9
2 Sam. 3 4 7
1 Kgs. 2 4 6
2 Kgs. 0 5 5
1 Chr. 1 6 7
2 Chr. 0 7 7
Ezra 0 4 4
Neh. 1 9 10
Esth. 1 5 6
Job 1 9 10
Ps. 0 7 7
Prov. 0 4 4
Isa. 2 4 6
Jer. 6 5 11
Ezek. 5 3 8
Dan. 0 8 8
Hosea 1 0 1
Micah 0 1 1
Hab. 0 1 1
NT 4 23 27
BM 11 66 77
DC 34 185 219
PGP 1 5 6
TOTAL 87 390 477

1 Sam. 8:11
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

1 Sam. 8:12
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

1 Sam. 13:8
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

1 Sam. 13:11
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;

1 Sam. 19:20
And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

1 Sam. 20:35
And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.

1 Sam. 21:2
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.

1 Sam. 25:30
And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;

1 Sam. 29:4
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?