Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'zion' occurs 425 times in the standard works.

159 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'zion' in the standard works and contain 37.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 68 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 97:18-21 (6 in 4 verses)

D&C 72:13-18 (6 in 6 verses)

Moses 7:18-23 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 45:67-71 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 97:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 107:74 (4 in 1 verse)

D&C 104:47-48 (4 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:68-69 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 14:3-5 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 26:29-31 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 82:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 113:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 119:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 68:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 84:99-100 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:34-35 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:36-37 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 4:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 63:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 72:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 90:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 90:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 101:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 27:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 28:21 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 64:38 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:104 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 100:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 111:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 133:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 48:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 52:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 52:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 4:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 8:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 6:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 8:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 13:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 20:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 21:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 58:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 64:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 68:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 69:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 69:8-70:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:53-94:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 119:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 153 8 161
NT 0 0 0
BM 45 0 45
1 Ne. 4 0 4
2 Ne. 31 0 31
Mosiah 4 0 4
3 Ne. 5 0 5
Moro. 1 0 1
DC 210 0 210
PGP 17 0 17
TOTAL 425 8 433

2 Ne. 6:12
And blessed are the Gentiles, they of whom the prophet has written; for behold, if it so be that they shall repent and fight not against Zion, and do not unite themselves to that great and abominable church, they shall be saved; for the Lord God will fulfil his covenants which he has made unto his children; and for this cause the prophet has written these things.

2 Ne. 6:13
Wherefore, they that fight against Zion and the covenant people of the Lord shall lick up the dust of their feet; and the people of the Lord shall not be ashamed. For the people of the Lord are they who wait for him; for they still wait for the coming of the Messiah.

2 Ne. 8:3
For the Lord shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

2 Ne. 8:11
Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy and holiness shall be upon their heads; and they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

2 Ne. 8:16
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion: Behold, thou art my people.

2 Ne. 8:24
Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

2 Ne. 8:25
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, O Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

2 Ne. 10:13
And he that fighteth against Zion shall perish, saith God.

2 Ne. 10:16
Wherefore, he that fighteth against Zion, both Jew and Gentile, both bond and free, both male and female, shall perish; for they are they who are the whore of all the earth; for they who are not for me are against me, saith our God.

2 Ne. 12:3
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

2 Ne. 13:16
Moreover, the Lord saith: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet--

2 Ne. 13:17
Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.

2 Ne. 14:3
And it shall come to pass, they that are left in Zion and remain in Jerusalem shall be called holy, every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem--

2 Ne. 14:4
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.

2 Ne. 14:5
And the Lord will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory of Zion shall be a defence.

2 Ne. 18:18
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts, which dwelleth in Mount Zion.

2 Ne. 20:12
Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

2 Ne. 20:24
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God of Hosts: O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian; he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

2 Ne. 20:32
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day; he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

2 Ne. 22:6
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

2 Ne. 24:32
What shall then answer the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

2 Ne. 26:29
He commandeth that there shall be no priestcrafts; for, behold, priestcrafts are that men preach and set themselves up for a light unto the world, that they may get gain and praise of the world; but they seek not the welfare of Zion.

2 Ne. 26:30
Behold, the Lord hath forbidden this thing; wherefore, the Lord God hath given a commandment that all men should have charity, which charity is love. And except they should have charity they were nothing. Wherefore, if they should have charity they would not suffer the laborer in Zion to perish.

2 Ne. 26:31
But the laborer in Zion shall labor for Zion; for if they labor for money they shall perish.

2 Ne. 27:3
And all the nations that fight against Zion, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision; yea, it shall be unto them, even as unto a hungry man which dreameth, and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty; or like unto a thirsty man which dreameth, and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint, and his soul hath appetite; yea, even so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

2 Ne. 28:21
And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well-- and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.

2 Ne. 28:24
Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!