Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'bury' occurs 48 times in the standard works.

24 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'bury' in the standard works and contain 50% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 50:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 23:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 23:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 19:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 47:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 9:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 39:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 9:59-60 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 33 9 42
Gen. 15 6 21
Deut. 1 0 1
Judg. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 5 0 5
2 Kgs. 3 1 4
Ps. 1 0 1
Jer. 4 0 4
Ezek. 3 1 4
Hosea 1 0 1
NT 6 2 8
BM 8 3 11
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 48 14 62

Gen. 23:4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Gen. 23:9
That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

Gen. 23:20
And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

Gen. 47:30
But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

Gen. 49:30
In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Gen. 50:13
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Judg. 16:31
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

2 Kgs. 13:21
And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

Ezek. 39:12
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.