Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'desolation' occurs 78 times in the standard works.

14 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'desolation' in the standard works and contain 17.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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Morm. 4:1-3 (4 in 3 verses)

Zeph. 2:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 22:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Morm. 4:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 26:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 41 11 52
NT 5 0 5
Matt. 2 0 2
Mark 1 0 1
Luke 2 0 2
BM 22 0 22
DC 8 2 10
PGP 2 1 3
TOTAL 78 14 92

Matt. 12:25
And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Matt. 24:15
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Mark 13:14
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Luke 11:17
But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.

Luke 21:20
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.