Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'smote' occurs 256 times in the standard works.

60 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'smote' in the standard works and contain 23.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 26 minutes to read the entire list.

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Josh. 11:8-12 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 44:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Josh. 10:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 8:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)


2 Kgs. 15:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

 15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

 15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

 15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.




1 Chr. 18:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 9:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 7:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 5:26 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 6:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:35 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 28:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 27:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 14:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 10:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 4:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 3:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 14:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 2:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 26:67-68 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 22:63-64 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 14:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 14:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 213 1 214
Gen. 5 0 5
Ex. 7 1 8
Num. 13 0 13
Deut. 5 0 5
Josh. 28 0 28
Judg. 16 0 16
1 Sam. 22 0 22
2 Sam. 21 0 21
1 Kgs. 8 0 8
2 Kgs. 23 0 23
1 Chr. 11 0 11
2 Chr. 15 0 15
Neh. 1 0 1
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 10 0 10
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 11 0 11
Jer. 7 0 7
Dan. 4 0 4
Jonah 1 0 1
Hag. 1 0 1
NT 16 0 16
BM 26 0 26
DC 0 0 0
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 256 1 257

2 Kgs. 2:8
And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.

2 Kgs. 2:14
And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.

2 Kgs. 3:24
And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country.

2 Kgs. 3:25
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

2 Kgs. 6:18
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

2 Kgs. 8:21
So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.

2 Kgs. 9:24
And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

2 Kgs. 10:25
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

2 Kgs. 10:32
In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

2 Kgs. 12:21
For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 13:18
And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.

2 Kgs. 15:5
And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.

2 Kgs. 15:10
And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 15:14
For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 15:16
Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

2 Kgs. 15:25
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.

2 Kgs. 15:30
And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

2 Kgs. 18:8
He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

2 Kgs. 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

2 Kgs. 19:37
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 25:21
And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.

2 Kgs. 25:25
But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.