Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'line' occurs 43 times in the standard works.

17 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'line' in the standard works and contain 39.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 28:10-17 (9 in 8 verses)

2 Sam. 8:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 28:30 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 98:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 30 169 199
Gen. 0 1 1
Ex. 0 40 40
Lev. 0 13 13
Deut. 0 2 2
Josh. 2 1 3
Judg. 0 1 1
1 Sam. 0 2 2
2 Sam. 2 2 4
1 Kgs. 2 3 5
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 0 4 4
2 Chr. 1 8 9
Esth. 0 2 2
Job 1 2 3
Ps. 2 29 31
Prov. 0 8 8
Isa. 12 10 22
Jer. 1 12 13
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 2 15 17
Dan. 0 5 5
Amos 1 5 6
Obad. 0 1 1
Zech. 2 2 4
Mal. 0 1 1
NT 1 55 56
BM 7 30 37
DC 5 28 33
PGP 0 7 7
TOTAL 43 289 332

Isa. 3:23
The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils.

Isa. 23:18
And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Isa. 28:10
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Isa. 28:13
But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Isa. 28:17
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Isa. 34:11
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Isa. 34:17
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

Isa. 35:8
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

Isa. 37:17
Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.

Isa. 40:6
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

Isa. 44:13
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

Isa. 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isa. 55:3
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Isa. 62:9
But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

Isa. 63:15
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

Isa. 63:18
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.