Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'pleased' occurs 92 times in the standard works.

14 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'pleased' in the standard works and contain 15.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Sam. 3:36 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 5:32 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 90:35 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 15:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 7:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 36 21 57
Gen. 4 2 6
Num. 1 2 3
Deut. 1 0 1
Josh. 2 0 2
Judg. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 3 2 5
2 Sam. 4 2 6
1 Kgs. 3 3 6
1 Chr. 0 2 2
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Esth. 4 0 4
Ps. 4 1 5
Isa. 2 1 3
Dan. 1 1 2
Jonah 1 1 2
Micah 1 0 1
Hab. 0 1 1
Zech. 0 3 3
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 26 4 30
BM 6 2 8
DC 21 1 22
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 92 29 121

2 Sam. 3:36
And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

2 Sam. 6:8
And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.

2 Sam. 11:27
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

2 Sam. 17:4
And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

2 Sam. 19:6
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.