Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sword' occurs 558 times in the standard works.

200 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sword' in the standard works and contain 35.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 80 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 32:20-32 (13 in 13 verses)

Ezek. 21:9-15 (9 in 7 verses)

Jer. 50:35-37 (5 in 3 verses)

Jer. 14:12-16 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 33:2-6 (5 in 5 verses)

Matt. 26:51-52 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:37-39 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 19:22-24 (4 in 3 verses)

Ether 15:28-30 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 24:21-24 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 44:10-13 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 44:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 25:13 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 31:8 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 21:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 31:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 12:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 10:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 15:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 44:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 26:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 11:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 21:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 11:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 21:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 30:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 60:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 13:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 8:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 22:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 3:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 19:17 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 21:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 21:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 19:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 18:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 20:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 43:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 5:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 7:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 14:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 21:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 38:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 13:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 19:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 122:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 34:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 26:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 32:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 37:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 34:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 29:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 42:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 44:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 6:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 21:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 30:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 30:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 31:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 32:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 33:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

John 18:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 4:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 10:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 42:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 51:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 14:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 393 18 411
NT 31 6 37
BM 115 42 157
DC 17 0 17
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 558 66 624

1 Sam. 13:19
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

2 Kgs. 3:26
And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

Neh. 4:13
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Ps. 55:21
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

Ps. 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

Prov. 30:14
There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Song. 3:8
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

Isa. 2:4
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isa. 21:15
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

Ezek. 16:40
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

Ezek. 23:47
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Ezek. 28:7
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

Ezek. 30:11
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

Ezek. 32:12
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

Ezek. 32:27
And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Ezek. 38:4
And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

Joel 3:10
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

Micah 4:3
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Matt. 26:47
And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Matt. 26:55
In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

Mark 14:43
And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

Mark 14:48
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?

Luke 22:38
And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.

Luke 22:52
Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?

2 Ne. 5:14
And I, Nephi, did take the sword of Laban, and after the manner of it did make many swords, lest by any means the people who were now called Lamanites should come upon us and destroy us; for I knew their hatred towards me and my children and those who were called my people.

2 Ne. 12:4
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks-- nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Mosiah 8:11
And again, they have brought swords, the hilts thereof have perished, and the blades thereof were cankered with rust; and there is no one in the land that is able to interpret the language or the engravings that are on the plates. Therefore I said unto thee: Canst thou translate?

Mosiah 9:16
And it came to pass that I did arm them with bows, and with arrows, with swords, and with cimeters, and with clubs, and with slings, and with all manner of weapons which we could invent, and I and my people did go forth against the Lamanites to battle.

Mosiah 10:8
And it came to pass that they came up upon the north of the land of Shilom, with their numerous hosts, men armed with bows, and with arrows, and with swords, and with cimeters, and with stones, and with slings; and they had their heads shaved that they were naked; and they were girded with a leathern girdle about their loins.

Alma 2:12
Therefore the people of the Nephites were aware of the intent of the Amlicites, and therefore they did prepare to meet them; yea, they did arm themselves with swords, and with cimeters, and with bows, and with arrows, and with stones, and with slings, and with all manner of weapons of war, of every kind.

Alma 17:7
Nevertheless they departed out of the land of Zarahemla, and took their swords, and their spears, and their bows, and their arrows, and their slings; and this they did that they might provide food for themselves while in the wilderness.

Alma 24:12
Now, my best beloved brethren, since God hath taken away our stains, and our swords have become bright, then let us stain our swords no more with the blood of our brethren.

Alma 24:13
Behold, I say unto you, Nay, let us retain our swords that they be not stained with the blood of our brethren; for perhaps, if we should stain our swords again they can no more be washed bright through the blood of the Son of our great God, which shall be shed for the atonement of our sins.

Alma 24:15
Oh, how merciful is our God! And now behold, since it has been as much as we could do to get our stains taken away from us, and our swords are made bright, let us hide them away that they may be kept bright, as a testimony to our God at the last day, or at the day that we shall be brought to stand before him to be judged, that we have not stained our swords in the blood of our brethren since he imparted his word unto us and has made us clean thereby.

Alma 24:16
And now, my brethren, if our brethren seek to destroy us, behold, we will hide away our swords, yea, even we will bury them deep in the earth, that they may be kept bright, as a testimony that we have never used them, at the last day; and if our brethren destroy us, behold, we shall go to our God and shall be saved.

Alma 24:17
And now it came to pass that when the king had made an end of these sayings, and all the people were assembled together, they took their swords, and all the weapons which were used for the shedding of man's blood, and they did bury them up deep in the earth.

Alma 43:18
And it came to pass that he met the Lamanites in the borders of Jershon, and his people were armed with swords, and with cimeters, and all manner of weapons of war.

Alma 43:20
Now the army of Zerahemnah was not prepared with any such thing; they had only their swords and their cimeters, their bows and their arrows, their stones and their slings; and they were naked, save it were a skin which was girded about their loins; yea, all were naked, save it were the Zoramites and the Amalekites;

Alma 43:37
And the work of death commenced on both sides, but it was more dreadful on the part of the Lamanites, for their nakedness was exposed to the heavy blows of the Nephites with their swords and their cimeters, which brought death almost at every stroke.

Alma 43:38
While on the other hand, there was now and then a man fell among the Nephites, by their swords and the loss of blood, they being shielded from the more vital parts of the body, or the more vital parts of the body being shielded from the strokes of the Lamanites, by their breastplates, and their armshields, and their head-plates; and thus the Nephites did carry on the work of death among the Lamanites.

Alma 44:8
And now it came to pass that when Zerahemnah had heard these sayings he came forth and delivered up his sword and his cimeter, and his bow into the hands of Moroni, and said unto him: Behold, here are our weapons of war; we will deliver them up unto you, but we will not suffer ourselves to take an oath unto you, which we know that we shall break, and also our children; but take our weapons of war, and suffer that we may depart into the wilderness; otherwise we will retain our swords, and we will perish or conquer.

Alma 44:9
Behold, we are not of your faith; we do not believe that it is God that has delivered us into your hands; but we believe that it is your cunning that has preserved you from our swords. Behold, it is your breastplates and your shields that have preserved you.

Alma 44:17
And now Moroni was angry, because of the stubbornness of the Lamanites; therefore he commanded his people that they should fall upon them and slay them. And it came to pass that they began to slay them; yea, and the Lamanites did contend with their swords and their might.

Alma 44:18
But behold, their naked skins and their bare heads were exposed to the sharp swords of the Nephites; yea, behold they were pierced and smitten, yea, and did fall exceedingly fast before the swords of the Nephites; and they began to be swept down, even as the soldier of Moroni had prophesied.

Alma 49:20
Thus they were prepared, yea, a body of their strongest men, with their swords and their slings, to smite down all who should attempt to come into their place of security by the place of entrance; and thus were they prepared to defend themselves against the Lamanites.

Alma 52:39
But behold, there were many that would not; and those who would not deliver up their swords were taken and bound, and their weapons of war were taken from them, and they were compelled to march with their brethren forth into the land Bountiful.

Alma 57:9
And it came to pass that we did camp round about the city for many nights; but we did sleep upon our swords, and keep guards, that the Lamanites could not come upon us by night and slay us, which they attempted many times; but as many times as they attempted this their blood was spilt.

Alma 57:33
And it came to pass because of their rebellion we did cause that our swords should come upon them. And it came to pass that they did in a body run upon our swords, in the which, the greater number of them were slain; and the remainder of them broke through and fled from us.

Alma 60:2
For behold, I have somewhat to say unto them by the way of condemnation; for behold, ye yourselves know that ye have been appointed to gather together men, and arm them with swords, and with cimeters, and all manner of weapons of war of every kind, and send forth against the Lamanites, in whatsoever parts they should come into our land.

Alma 60:16
Yea, had it not been for the war which broke out among ourselves; yea, were it not for these king-men, who caused so much bloodshed among ourselves; yea, at the time we were contending among ourselves, if we had united our strength as we hitherto have done; yea, had it not been for the desire of power and authority which those king-men had over us; had they been true to the cause of our freedom, and united with us, and gone forth against our enemies, instead of taking up their swords against us, which was the cause of so much bloodshed among ourselves; yea, if we had gone forth against them in the strength of the Lord, we should have dispersed our enemies, for it would have been done, according to the fulfilling of his word.

Alma 61:14
Therefore, my beloved brother, Moroni, let us resist evil, and whatsoever evil we cannot resist with our words, yea, such as rebellions and dissensions, let us resist them with our swords, that we may retain our freedom, that we may rejoice in the great privilege of our church, and in the cause of our Redeemer and our God.

Alma 62:5
And it came to pass that thousands did flock unto his standard, and did take up their swords in the defence of their freedom, that they might not come into bondage.

Hel. 1:14
And it came to pass in the forty and first year of the reign of the judges, that the Lamanites had gathered together an innumerable army of men, and armed them with swords, and with cimeters and with bows, and with arrows, and with head-plates, and with breastplates, and with all manner of shields of every kind.

Hel. 13:34
Behold, we lay a tool here and on the morrow it is gone; and behold, our swords are taken from us in the day we have sought them for battle.

Hel. 15:9
And ye know also that they have buried their weapons of war, and they fear to take them up lest by any means they should sin; yea, ye can see that they fear to sin-- for behold they will suffer themselves that they be trodden down and slain by their enemies, and will not lift their swords against them, and this because of their faith in Christ.

Ether 7:9
Wherefore, he came to the hill Ephraim, and he did molten out of the hill, and made swords out of steel for those whom he had drawn away with him; and after he had armed them with swords he returned to the city Nehor, and gave battle unto his brother Corihor, by which means he obtained the kingdom and restored it unto his father Kib.

Ether 15:20
And it came to pass that they fought all that day, and when the night came they slept upon their swords.

Ether 15:22
And when the night came they were drunken with anger, even as a man who is drunken with wine; and they slept again upon their swords.

Ether 15:24
And it came to pass that they slept upon their swords that night, and on the morrow they fought again, and they contended in their might with their swords and with their shields, all that day.