Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'battle' occurs 312 times in the standard works.

113 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'battle' in the standard works and contain 36.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 50 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 4:4-7 (5 in 4 verses)

 4:4 Therefore, there was no chance for the robbers to plunder and to obtain food, save it were to come up in open battle against the Nephites; and the Nephites being in one body, and having so great a number, and having reserved for themselves provisions, and horses and cattle, and flocks of every kind, that they might subsist for the space of seven years, in the which time they did hope to destroy the robbers from off the face of the land; and thus the eighteenth year did pass away.

 4:5 And it came to pass that in the nineteenth year Giddianhi found that it was expedient that he should go up to battle against the Nephites, for there was no way that they could subsist save it were to plunder and rob and murder.

 4:6 And they durst not spread themselves upon the face of the land insomuch that they could raise grain, lest the Nephites should come upon them and slay them; therefore Giddianhi gave commandment unto his armies that in this year they should go up to battle against the Nephites.

 4:7 And it came to pass that they did come up to battle; and it was in the sixth month; and behold, great and terrible was the day that they did come up to battle; and they were girded about after the manner of robbers; and they had a lamb-skin about their loins, and they were dyed in blood, and their heads were shorn, and they had head-plates upon them; and great and terrible was the appearance of the armies of Giddianhi, because of their armor, and because of their being dyed in blood.




Mosiah 10:6-10 (5 in 5 verses)

Ether 13:27-31 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Sam. 21:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

Hel. 1:29-30 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 14:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 20:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 20:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Zech. 10:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 58:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 8:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 15:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 20:39 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 29:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 22:30 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 19:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 13:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 18:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:19 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 3:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 14:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 31:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 11:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 20:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 14:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 10:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 12:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 19:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 14:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 9:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 47:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 47:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 51:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 3:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 7:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 14:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 15:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:113-114 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 165 8 173
NT 5 0 5
BM 134 3 137
1 Ne. 4 0 4
2 Ne. 2 0 2
Jarom 1 0 1
W of M 1 0 1
Mosiah 11 0 11
Alma 43 2 45
Hel. 7 0 7
3 Ne. 13 0 13
Morm. 17 1 18
Ether 34 0 34
Moro. 1 0 1
DC 6 5 11
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 312 16 328

3 Ne. 3:4
And I, knowing of their unconquerable spirit, having proved them in the field of battle, and knowing of their everlasting hatred towards you because of the many wrongs which ye have done unto them, therefore if they should come down against you they would visit you with utter destruction.

3 Ne. 3:5
Therefore I have written this epistle, sealing it with mine own hand, feeling for your welfare, because of your firmness in that which ye believe to be right, and your noble spirit in the field of battle.

3 Ne. 3:25
And they did fortify themselves against their enemies; and they did dwell in one land, and in one body, and they did fear the words which had been spoken by Lachoneus, insomuch that they did repent of all their sins; and they did put up their prayers unto the Lord their God, that he would deliver them in the time that their enemies should come down against them to battle.

3 Ne. 4:1
And it came to pass that in the latter end of the eighteenth year those armies of robbers had prepared for battle, and began to come down and to sally forth from the hills, and out of the mountains, and the wilderness, and their strongholds, and their secret places, and began to take possession of the lands, both which were in the land south and which were in the land north, and began to take possession of all the lands which had been deserted by the Nephites, and the cities which had been left desolate.

3 Ne. 4:4
Therefore, there was no chance for the robbers to plunder and to obtain food, save it were to come up in open battle against the Nephites; and the Nephites being in one body, and having so great a number, and having reserved for themselves provisions, and horses and cattle, and flocks of every kind, that they might subsist for the space of seven years, in the which time they did hope to destroy the robbers from off the face of the land; and thus the eighteenth year did pass away.

3 Ne. 4:5
And it came to pass that in the nineteenth year Giddianhi found that it was expedient that he should go up to battle against the Nephites, for there was no way that they could subsist save it were to plunder and rob and murder.

3 Ne. 4:6
And they durst not spread themselves upon the face of the land insomuch that they could raise grain, lest the Nephites should come upon them and slay them; therefore Giddianhi gave commandment unto his armies that in this year they should go up to battle against the Nephites.

3 Ne. 4:7
And it came to pass that they did come up to battle; and it was in the sixth month; and behold, great and terrible was the day that they did come up to battle; and they were girded about after the manner of robbers; and they had a lamb-skin about their loins, and they were dyed in blood, and their heads were shorn, and they had head-plates upon them; and great and terrible was the appearance of the armies of Giddianhi, because of their armor, and because of their being dyed in blood.

3 Ne. 4:11
And the battle commenced in this the sixth month; and great and terrible was the battle thereof, yea, great and terrible was the slaughter thereof, insomuch that there never was known so great a slaughter among all the people of Lehi since he left Jerusalem.

3 Ne. 4:15
And it came to pass that the armies of the Nephites did return again to their place of security. And it came to pass that this nineteenth year did pass away, and the robbers did not come again to battle; neither did they come again in the twentieth year.

3 Ne. 4:16
And in the twenty and first year they did not come up to battle, but they came up on all sides to lay siege round about the people of Nephi; for they did suppose that if they should cut off the people of Nephi from their lands, and should hem them in on every side, and if they should cut them off from all their outward privileges, that they could cause them to yield themselves up according to their wishes.