Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'gold' occurs 487 times in the standard works.

240 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'gold' in the standard works and contain 49.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 103 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Chr. 28:14-29:7 (17 in 15 verses)

2 Chr. 9:9-21 (14 in 13 verses)

Ex. 36:34-37:7 (12 in 12 verses)

Alma 11:3-10 (11 in 8 verses)

1 Kgs. 10:14-22 (10 in 9 verses)

2 Chr. 3:4-10 (9 in 7 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:48-51 (7 in 4 verses)

Ex. 37:11-17 (7 in 7 verses)

Ex. 37:22-28 (7 in 7 verses)

1 Kgs. 6:20-22 (6 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 4:20-5:1 (6 in 4 verses)

Ezra 8:25-30 (6 in 6 verses)

Ex. 26:29-32 (5 in 4 verses)

Ex. 39:13-17 (5 in 5 verses)

Ex. 39:15-19 (5 in 5 verses)

Job 28:15-19 (5 in 5 verses)

Ex. 25:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

Prov. 25:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Lam. 4:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 23:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 25:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 28:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 28:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 30:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 31:50-52 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 6:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:33-35 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 1:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 7:70-72 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 26:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 35:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 38:24 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 25:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 22:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 31:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 19:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 119:127 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 8:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 7:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 10:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 2:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 25:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 25:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 25:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 28:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 28:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 39:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 39:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 8:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 10:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 15:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 18:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 8:18-9:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 16:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Esth. 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Song. 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Song. 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)


Mosiah 11:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

 11:8 And it came to pass that king Noah built many elegant and spacious buildings; and he ornamented them with fine work of wood, and of all manner of precious things, of gold, and of silver, and of iron, and of brass, and of ziff, and of copper;

 11:9 And he also built him a spacious palace, and a throne in the midst thereof, all of which was of fine wood and was ornamented with gold and silver and with precious things.




Moses 3:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 391 57 448
NT 26 15 41
BM 60 2 62
1 Ne. 9 0 9
2 Ne. 5 2 7
Jacob 2 0 2
Jarom 1 0 1
Mosiah 10 0 10
Alma 18 0 18
Hel. 6 0 6
3 Ne. 3 0 3
4 Ne. 1 0 1
Ether 5 0 5
DC 6 1 7
PGP 4 0 4
TOTAL 487 75 562

Mosiah 2:12
I say unto you that as I have been suffered to spend my days in your service, even up to this time, and have not sought gold nor silver nor any manner of riches of you;

Mosiah 4:19
For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind?

Mosiah 8:9
And for a testimony that the things that they had said are true they have brought twenty-four plates which are filled with engravings, and they are of pure gold.

Mosiah 11:3
And he laid a tax of one fifth part of all they possessed, a fifth part of their gold and of their silver, and a fifth part of their ziff, and of their copper, and of their brass and their iron; and a fifth part of their fatlings; and also a fifth part of all their grain.

Mosiah 11:8
And it came to pass that king Noah built many elegant and spacious buildings; and he ornamented them with fine work of wood, and of all manner of precious things, of gold, and of silver, and of iron, and of brass, and of ziff, and of copper;

Mosiah 11:9
And he also built him a spacious palace, and a throne in the midst thereof, all of which was of fine wood and was ornamented with gold and silver and with precious things.

Mosiah 11:11
And the seats which were set apart for the high priests, which were above all the other seats, he did ornament with pure gold; and he caused a breastwork to be built before them, that they might rest their bodies and their arms upon while they should speak lying and vain words to his people.

Mosiah 19:15
Therefore the Lamanites did spare their lives, and took them captives and carried them back to the land of Nephi, and granted unto them that they might possess the land, under the conditions that they would deliver up king Noah into the hands of the Lamanites, and deliver up their property, even one half of all they possessed, one half of their gold, and their silver, and all their precious things, and thus they should pay tribute to the king of the Lamanites from year to year.

Mosiah 22:12
And they had taken all their gold, and silver, and their precious things, which they could carry, and also their provisions with them, into the wilderness; and they pursued their journey.

Mosiah 28:11
Therefore he took the records which were engraven on the plates of brass, and also the plates of Nephi, and all the things which he had kept and preserved according to the commandments of God, after having translated and caused to be written the records which were on the plates of gold which had been found by the people of Limhi, which were delivered to him by the hand of Limhi;