Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'places' occurs 286 times in the standard works.

60 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'places' in the standard works and contain 21% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Kgs. 23:5-9 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

Neh. 4:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 33:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 22:43 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 12:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 14:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 15:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 15:35 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 17:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 10:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 8:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:46 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:36 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 45:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 4:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)


Ezek. 34:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

 34:12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

 34:13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.




Ezek. 46:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 8:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 75:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 198 5 203
Gen. 2 0 2
Ex. 8 0 8
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 3 0 3
Deut. 4 0 4
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 4 0 4
1 Sam. 4 0 4
2 Sam. 5 0 5
1 Kgs. 12 0 12
2 Kgs. 27 0 27
1 Chr. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 17 0 17
Neh. 4 0 4
Job 5 0 5
Ps. 18 0 18
Prov. 4 0 4
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 17 0 17
Jer. 27 2 29
Lam. 3 0 3
Ezek. 18 2 20
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 2 0 2
Amos 3 0 3
Micah 3 0 3
Hab. 1 1 2
Zech. 1 0 1
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 17 1 18
BM 35 0 35
DC 32 0 32
PGP 4 0 4
TOTAL 286 6 292

Ezek. 6:3
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezek. 6:6
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Ezek. 7:24
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

Ezek. 16:16
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

Ezek. 16:39
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

Ezek. 21:2
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

Ezek. 26:20
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

Ezek. 34:12
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Ezek. 34:13
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

Ezek. 34:26
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

Ezek. 36:2
Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

Ezek. 36:36
Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it.

Ezek. 37:23
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezek. 38:12
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

Ezek. 38:20
So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

Ezek. 43:7
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.

Ezek. 46:23
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.

Ezek. 46:24
Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

Ezek. 47:11
But the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.