Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'devour' occurs 80 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'devour' in the standard works and contain 5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 18:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 63 65 128
NT 8 6 14
BM 8 8 16
1 Ne. 0 1 1
2 Ne. 3 2 5
Mosiah 2 1 3
Alma 1 1 2
3 Ne. 0 2 2
Ether 1 1 2
Moro. 1 0 1
DC 1 2 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 80 81 161

2 Ne. 19:12
The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Ne. 19:18
For wickedness burneth as the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forests, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

2 Ne. 20:17
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame, and shall burn and shall devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Mosiah 12:2
Yea, wo be unto this generation! And the Lord said unto me: Stretch forth thy hand and prophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord, it shall come to pass that this generation, because of their iniquities, shall be brought into bondage, and shall be smitten on the cheek; yea, and shall be driven by men, and shall be slain; and the vultures of the air, and the dogs, yea, and the wild beasts, shall devour their flesh.

Mosiah 12:6
And it shall come to pass that I will send forth hail among them, and it shall smite them; and they shall also be smitten with the east wind; and insects shall pester their land also, and devour their grain.

Alma 5:59
For what shepherd is there among you having many sheep doth not watch over them, that the wolves enter not and devour his flock? And behold, if a wolf enter his flock doth he not drive him out? Yea, and at the last, if he can, he will destroy him.

Ether 9:34
And it came to pass that the people did follow the course of the beasts, and did devour the carcasses of them which fell by the way, until they had devoured them all. Now when the people saw that they must perish they began to repent of their iniquities and cry unto the Lord.

Moro. 9:10
And after they had done this thing, they did murder them in a most cruel manner, torturing their bodies even unto death; and after they have done this, they devour their flesh like unto wild beasts, because of the hardness of their hearts; and they do it for a token of bravery.