Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'pit' occurs 98 times in the standard works.

30 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'pit' in the standard works and contain 30.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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Rev. 9:1-2 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 37:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 21:33-34 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 24:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 48:43-44 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 37:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 32:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 26:20 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 14:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 38:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 32:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 77 208 285
Gen. 7 19 26
Ex. 3 10 13
Lev. 1 1 2
Num. 2 50 52
Deut. 0 7 7
Josh. 0 3 3
Judg. 0 11 11
1 Sam. 0 14 14
2 Sam. 3 5 8
1 Kgs. 0 17 17
2 Kgs. 1 4 5
1 Chr. 1 5 6
2 Chr. 0 5 5
Neh. 0 1 1
Job 6 5 11
Ps. 14 7 21
Prov. 6 2 8
Eccl. 1 1 2
Isa. 11 6 17
Jer. 7 10 17
Lam. 0 7 7
Ezek. 13 12 25
Joel 0 1 1
Amos 0 1 1
Jonah 0 1 1
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 2 3
NT 11 32 43
BM 8 50 58
DC 2 3 5
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 98 294 392

Isa. 13:18
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

Isa. 13:20
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

Isa. 14:15
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Isa. 14:19
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

Isa. 24:17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

Isa. 24:18
And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

Isa. 24:22
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Isa. 30:14
And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

Isa. 34:9
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Isa. 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Isa. 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Isa. 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Isa. 51:1
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

Isa. 51:14
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

Isa. 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.