Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'seventy' occurs 98 times in the standard works.

38 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'seventy' in the standard works and contain 38.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 17 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 107:90-98 (9 in 9 verses)

Hel. 11:21-23 (5 in 3 verses)

4 Ne. 1:14 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezra 2:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 23:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 10:19-11:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 38:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 11:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)


2 Kgs. 10:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

 10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

 10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.




Neh. 7:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 25:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 58 0 58
Gen. 5 0 5
Ex. 5 0 5
Num. 17 0 17
Judg. 1 0 1
2 Sam. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 3 0 3
1 Chr. 1 0 1
Ezra 8 0 8
Neh. 5 0 5
Esth. 1 0 1
Isa. 3 0 3
Jer. 3 0 3
Ezek. 2 0 2
Dan. 2 0 2
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 3 0 3
BM 21 0 21
DC 13 0 13
PGP 3 0 3
TOTAL 98 0 98

2 Kgs. 10:1
And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,

2 Kgs. 10:6
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

2 Kgs. 10:7
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.