Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'jesse' occurs 55 times in the standard works.

27 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'jesse' in the standard works and contain 49.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 16:5-11 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 113:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 16:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 22:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Ruth 4:22 (2 in 1 verse)


1 Sam. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

 17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

 17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.




1 Sam. 20:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

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