Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'turn' occurs 369 times in the standard works.

74 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'turn' in the standard works and contain 20.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 31 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 33:9-14 (6 in 6 verses)

2 Sam. 2:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 30:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Dan. 11:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Jonah 3:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Zech. 1:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 19:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 4:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 30:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 31:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 14:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 56:40 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 5:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 7:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)


Deut. 23:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

 23:13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

 23:14 For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.




Judg. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ruth 1:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 12:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 22:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 9:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 132:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 3:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 1:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 2:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 33:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 258 716 974
Gen. 4 33 37
Ex. 4 24 28
Lev. 2 17 19
Num. 7 21 28
Deut. 22 22 44
Josh. 7 28 35
Judg. 6 28 34
Ruth 3 10 13
1 Sam. 7 38 45
2 Sam. 9 34 43
1 Kgs. 9 32 41
2 Kgs. 8 33 41
1 Chr. 2 5 7
2 Chr. 14 34 48
Ezra 0 4 4
Neh. 3 13 16
Esth. 2 6 8
Job 5 32 37
Ps. 27 46 73
Prov. 8 11 19
Eccl. 1 11 12
Song. 2 6 8
Isa. 17 40 57
Jer. 23 75 98
Lam. 4 9 13
Ezek. 23 37 60
Dan. 5 15 20
Hosea 3 19 22
Joel 2 4 6
Amos 13 7 20
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 3 1 4
Micah 1 3 4
Nahum 0 1 1
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 3 1 4
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 6 8 14
Mal. 3 5 8
NT 25 91 116
BM 62 183 245
DC 19 44 63
PGP 5 17 22
TOTAL 369 1051 1420

Deut. 1:7
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

Deut. 1:24
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

Deut. 1:40
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Deut. 1:45
And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

Deut. 2:1
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

Deut. 2:3
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

Deut. 2:8
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

Deut. 2:27
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.

Deut. 3:1
Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Deut. 3:20
Until the Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the Lord your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.

Deut. 4:30
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

Deut. 5:32
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Deut. 7:4
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

Deut. 9:12
And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

Deut. 9:15
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

Deut. 9:16
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

Deut. 10:5
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.

Deut. 11:16
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Deut. 11:28
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

Deut. 13:5
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

Deut. 13:17
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

Deut. 14:25
Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:

Deut. 16:7
And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

Deut. 17:16
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

Deut. 17:17
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Deut. 17:20
That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

Deut. 20:5
And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

Deut. 20:6
And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

Deut. 20:7
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

Deut. 20:8
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.

Deut. 23:5
Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

Deut. 23:13
And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

Deut. 23:14
For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

Deut. 29:18
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

Deut. 30:2
And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

Deut. 30:3
That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.

Deut. 30:8
And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

Deut. 30:10
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

Deut. 30:17
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Deut. 31:18
And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

Deut. 31:20
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

Deut. 31:29
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.