Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'temple' occurs 246 times in the standard works.

107 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'temple' in the standard works and contain 43.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 41 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Kgs. 11:10-13 (5 in 4 verses)

Acts 2:46-3:3 (5 in 5 verses)

Acts 21:26-30 (5 in 5 verses)

Rev. 15:5-16:1 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Ne. 5:16 (4 in 1 verse)

Ezra 5:14-15 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 3:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

JS-M 1:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

Zech. 6:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Matt. 21:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Chr. 23:10 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 7:4 (3 in 1 verse)

Neh. 6:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 23:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Mark 11:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

John 2:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 6:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 8:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 24:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 6:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 11:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 21:22 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 93:35 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 41:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 5:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 1:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 22:52-53 (2 in 2 verses)

John 2:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 5:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 5:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 11:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:18-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 87 7 94
Judg. 0 3 3
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 6 0 6
2 Kgs. 8 0 8
1 Chr. 2 0 2
2 Chr. 12 0 12
Ezra 9 0 9
Neh. 3 0 3
Ps. 10 0 10
Song. 0 2 2
Isa. 3 0 3
Jer. 6 0 6
Ezek. 10 0 10
Dan. 2 0 2
Hosea 0 1 1
Joel 0 1 1
Amos 1 0 1
Jonah 2 0 2
Micah 1 0 1
Hab. 1 0 1
Hag. 2 0 2
Zech. 5 0 5
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 117 2 119
BM 22 9 31
DC 16 4 20
PGP 4 0 4
TOTAL 246 22 268

Judg. 4:21
Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

Judg. 4:22
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

Judg. 5:26
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

Song. 4:3
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

Song. 6:7
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

Hosea 8:14
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Joel 3:5
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: