Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'kill' occurs 147 times in the standard works.

26 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'kill' in the standard works and contain 17.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 4:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 7:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 31:17 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 5:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:28 (2 in 1 verse)

James 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 12:21 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:31 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

John 7:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 9:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 78 66 144
Gen. 5 1 6
Ex. 12 2 14
Lev. 20 12 32
Num. 7 5 12
Deut. 6 1 7
Josh. 0 2 2
Judg. 5 1 6
1 Sam. 8 8 16
2 Sam. 4 2 6
1 Kgs. 2 4 6
2 Kgs. 3 1 4
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 1 13 14
Ezra 0 1 1
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 0 2 2
Ps. 0 1 1
Prov. 0 2 2
Eccl. 1 1 2
Isa. 2 2 4
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 1 0 1
Dan. 0 2 2
Hosea 0 1 1
NT 47 40 87
BM 13 12 25
DC 6 4 10
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 147 123 270

Gen. 37:31
And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

Ex. 2:14
And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

Ex. 21:29
But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

Lev. 4:15
And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the Lord: and the bullock shall be killed before the Lord.

Lev. 6:25
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord: it is most holy.

Lev. 8:19
And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

Lev. 14:5
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

Lev. 14:6
As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

Lev. 17:3
What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,

Lev. 24:17
And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

Lev. 24:18
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.

Lev. 24:21
And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

Num. 16:41
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.

Num. 31:19
And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

Num. 35:11
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

Num. 35:15
These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.

Num. 35:30
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

Deut. 19:4
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;

Josh. 20:3
That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Josh. 20:9
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

Judg. 9:24
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.

1 Sam. 2:6
The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

1 Sam. 17:25
And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

1 Sam. 17:26
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1 Sam. 17:27
And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

1 Sam. 24:11
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

1 Sam. 24:18
And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.

1 Sam. 25:11
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

1 Sam. 28:24
And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:

2 Sam. 12:9
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2 Sam. 21:17
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

1 Kgs. 5:6
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.

1 Kgs. 16:7
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.

1 Kgs. 16:10
And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

1 Kgs. 21:19
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

2 Kgs. 15:25
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

1 Chr. 19:18
But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

2 Chr. 2:7
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

2 Chr. 2:8
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

2 Chr. 18:2
And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.

2 Chr. 25:3
Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

2 Chr. 29:22
So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

2 Chr. 29:24
And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

2 Chr. 30:15
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

2 Chr. 30:17
For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord.

2 Chr. 34:12
And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

2 Chr. 35:1
Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

2 Chr. 35:11
And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

Ezra 6:20
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Ps. 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Prov. 9:2
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

Prov. 21:25
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

Eccl. 9:11
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Isa. 22:13
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Isa. 66:3
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

Lam. 2:21
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

Dan. 1:17
As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Dan. 9:22
And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

Hosea 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.