Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'hosts' occurs 387 times in the standard works.

138 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'hosts' in the standard works and contain 35.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 64 minutes to read the entire list.

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Zech. 7:12-8:9 (12 in 12 verses)

Hag. 2:4-9 (6 in 6 verses)

Hag. 2:6-11 (6 in 6 verses)

Zech. 8:18-23 (6 in 6 verses)

Jacob 2:28-33 (6 in 6 verses)

Zech. 1:3-6 (5 in 4 verses)

Isa. 22:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Mal. 1:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 14:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 19:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 25:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 35:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Amos 5:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Mal. 3:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 24:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 26:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 24:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 8:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 18:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 46:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Hag. 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 8:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 20:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 23:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 28:32 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 10:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 31:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 23:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 27:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 32:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 33:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 50:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 51:57-58 (2 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 2:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 3:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 14:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Mal. 1:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Mal. 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 20:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 27:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:112-113 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 127:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 299 0 299
NT 0 0 0
BM 64 0 64
1 Ne. 2 0 2
2 Ne. 36 0 36
Jacob 6 0 6
Mosiah 3 0 3
Alma 3 0 3
Hel. 3 0 3
3 Ne. 11 0 11
DC 22 0 22
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 387 0 387

1 Ne. 20:2
Nevertheless, they call themselves of the holy city, but they do not stay themselves upon the God of Israel, who is the Lord of Hosts; yea, the Lord of Hosts is his name.

2 Ne. 8:15
But I am the Lord thy God, whose waves roared; the Lord of Hosts is my name.

2 Ne. 12:12
For the day of the Lord of Hosts soon cometh upon all nations, yea, upon every one; yea, upon the proud and lofty, and upon every one who is lifted up, and he shall be brought low.

2 Ne. 13:1
For behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread, and the whole stay of water--

2 Ne. 13:15
What mean ye? Ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord God of Hosts.

2 Ne. 15:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, and behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

2 Ne. 15:9
In mine ears, said the Lord of Hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, and great and fair cities without inhabitant.

2 Ne. 15:16
But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

2 Ne. 15:24
Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, their root shall be rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

2 Ne. 16:3
And one cried unto another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.

2 Ne. 16:5
Then said I: Wo is unto me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.

2 Ne. 18:13
Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

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. 19:7
Of the increase of government and peace there is no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this.

2 Ne. 19:13
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts.

2 Ne. 19:19
Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; no man shall spare his brother.

2 Ne. 20:16
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, send among his fat ones, leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

2 Ne. 20:23
For the Lord God of Hosts shall make a consumption, even determined in all the land.

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. 20:26
And the Lord of Hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and as his rod was upon the sea so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

2 Ne. 20:33
Behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts shall lop the bough with terror; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down; and the haughty shall be humbled.

2 Ne. 23:4
The noise of the multitude in the mountains like as of a great people, a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together, the Lord of Hosts mustereth the hosts of the battle.

2 Ne. 23:13
Therefore, I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

2 Ne. 24:22
For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.

2 Ne. 24:23
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.

2 Ne. 24:24
The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand--

2 Ne. 24:27
For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

2 Ne. 26:4
Wherefore, all those who are proud, and that do wickedly, the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, for they shall be as stubble.

2 Ne. 26:5
And they that kill the prophets, and the saints, the depths of the earth shall swallow them up, saith the Lord of Hosts; and mountains shall cover them, and whirlwinds shall carry them away, and buildings shall fall upon them and crush them to pieces and grind them to powder.

2 Ne. 26:6
And they shall be visited with thunderings, and lightnings, and earthquakes, and all manner of destructions, for the fire of the anger of the Lord shall be kindled against them, and they shall be as stubble, and the day that cometh shall consume them, saith the Lord of Hosts.

2 Ne. 27:2
And when that day shall come they shall be visited of the Lord of Hosts, with thunder and with earthquake, and with a great noise, and with storm, and with tempest, and with the flame of devouring fire.

2 Ne. 27:27
And wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord! And their works are in the dark; and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us? And they also say: Surely, your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay. But behold, I will show unto them, saith the Lord of Hosts, that I know all their works. For shall the work say of him that made it, he made me not? Or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, he had no understanding?

2 Ne. 27:28
But behold, saith the Lord of Hosts: I will show unto the children of men that it is yet a very little while and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field; and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest.

2 Ne. 28:17
But behold, if the inhabitants of the earth shall repent of their wickedness and abominations they shall not be destroyed, saith the Lord of Hosts.

2 Ne. 28:32
Wo be unto the Gentiles, saith the Lord God of Hosts! For notwithstanding I shall lengthen out mine arm unto them from day to day, they will deny me; nevertheless, I will be merciful unto them, saith the Lord God, if they will repent and come unto me; for mine arm is lengthened out all the day long, saith the Lord God of Hosts.

Jacob 2:28
For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.

Jacob 2:29
Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.

Jacob 2:30
For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.

Jacob 2:32
And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Jacob 2:33
For they shall not lead away captive the daughters of my people because of their tenderness, save I shall visit them with a sore curse, even unto destruction; for they shall not commit whoredoms, like unto them of old, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Mosiah 8:8
And they were lost in the wilderness for the space of many days, yet they were diligent, and found not the land of Zarahemla but returned to this land, having traveled in a land among many waters, having discovered a land which was covered with bones of men, and of beasts, and was also covered with ruins of buildings of every kind, having discovered a land which had been peopled with a people who were as numerous as the hosts of Israel.

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.

Mosiah 20:20
And behold, they come with their numerous hosts; and except the king doth pacify them towards us we must perish.

Alma 3:2
Now many women and children had been slain with the sword, and also many of their flocks and their herds; and also many of their fields of grain were destroyed, for they were trodden down by the hosts of men.

Alma 51:27
And thus had the Lamanites obtained, by the cunning of Amalickiah, so many cities, by their numberless hosts, all of which were strongly fortified after the manner of the fortifications of Moroni; all of which afforded strongholds for the Lamanites.

Alma 58:15
And it came to pass that when they saw that we were not strong, according to our numbers, and fearing that we should cut them off from their support except they should come out to battle against us and kill us, and also supposing that they could easily destroy us with their numerous hosts, therefore they began to make preparations to come out against us to battle.

Hel. 13:17
And behold, a curse shall come upon the land, saith the Lord of Hosts, because of the people's sake who are upon the land, yea, because of their wickedness and their abominations.

Hel. 13:18
And it shall come to pass, saith the Lord of Hosts, yea, our great and true God, that whoso shall hide up treasures in the earth shall find them again no more, because of the great curse of the land, save he be a righteous man and shall hide it up unto the Lord.

Hel. 13:32
And in the days of your poverty ye shall cry unto the Lord; and in vain shall ye cry, for your desolation is already come upon you, and your destruction is made sure; and then shall ye weep and howl in that day, saith the Lord of Hosts. And then shall ye lament, and say:

3 Ne. 22:5
For thy maker, thy husband, the Lord of Hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel-- the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

3 Ne. 24:1
And it came to pass that he commanded them that they should write the words which the Father had given unto Malachi, which he should tell unto them. And it came to pass that after they were written he expounded them. And these are the words which he did tell unto them, saying: Thus said the Father unto Malachi-- Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.

3 Ne. 24:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord of Hosts.

3 Ne. 24:7
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts. But ye say: Wherein shall we return?

3 Ne. 24:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house; and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

3 Ne. 24:11
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the fields, saith the Lord of Hosts.

3 Ne. 24:12
And all nations shall call you blessed, for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of Hosts.

3 Ne. 24:14
Ye have said: It is vain to serve God, and what doth it profit that we have kept his ordinances and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?

3 Ne. 24:17
And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

3 Ne. 25:1
For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

3 Ne. 25:3
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of Hosts.