Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'jesse' occurs 55 times in the standard works.

27 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'jesse' in the standard works and contain 49.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 16:5-11 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 113:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 16:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 22:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Ruth 4:22 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 20:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 42 0 42
NT 5 0 5
Matt. 2 0 2
Luke 1 0 1
Acts 1 0 1
Rom. 1 0 1
BM 2 0 2
DC 6 0 6
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 55 0 55

Matt. 1:5
And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;

Matt. 1:6
And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;

Luke 3:32
Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,

Acts 13:22
And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

Rom. 15:12
And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.