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)

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

Jer. 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Jer. 3:21
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jer. 4:11
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

Jer. 4:12
Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

Jer. 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Jer. 7:29
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Jer. 7:31
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

Jer. 8:3
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jer. 12:12
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

Jer. 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive.

Jer. 14:6
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Jer. 17:3
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

Jer. 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Jer. 17:26
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the Lord.

Jer. 19:5
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

Jer. 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

Jer. 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

Jer. 24:9
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

Jer. 26:18
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Jer. 29:14
And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Jer. 30:18
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

Jer. 32:35
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Jer. 32:44
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord.

Jer. 33:13
In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the Lord.

Jer. 40:12
Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

Jer. 45:5
And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

Jer. 48:35
Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

Jer. 49:10
But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

Jer. 51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.