Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'city' occurs 1255 times in the standard works.

697 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'city' in the standard works and contain 55.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 278 minutes to read the entire list.

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Josh. 8:1-22 (25 in 22 verses)

3 Ne. 8:24-9:10 (18 in 12 verses)

Alma 56:57-57:12 (14 in 13 verses)

Alma 51:23-26 (13 in 4 verses)

Alma 49:10-17 (11 in 8 verses)

Alma 56:25-34 (10 in 10 verses)

Hel. 1:18-27 (10 in 10 verses)

D&C 109:39-41 (8 in 3 verses)

Alma 8:13-19 (8 in 7 verses)

Alma 56:14-20 (8 in 7 verses)

Alma 59:5-11 (8 in 7 verses)

Morm. 4:2-8 (8 in 7 verses)

Josh. 6:14-21 (8 in 8 verses)

Josh. 19:50-20:6 (8 in 8 verses)

Ezek. 48:15-22 (8 in 8 verses)

Alma 53:2-6 (7 in 5 verses)

Alma 52:22-28 (7 in 7 verses)

Alma 50:13-14 (6 in 2 verses)

Judg. 1:23-26 (6 in 4 verses)

Hel. 13:12-15 (6 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 9:10-14 (6 in 5 verses)

Ezra 4:12-16 (6 in 5 verses)

Jer. 32:24-29 (6 in 6 verses)

Rev. 21:14-19 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 62:18-23 (6 in 6 verses)

Judg. 9:43-45 (5 in 3 verses)

Jer. 52:5-7 (5 in 3 verses)

Alma 55:24-26 (5 in 3 verses)

Hel. 5:14-16 (5 in 3 verses)

Gen. 34:24-28 (5 in 5 verses)

Josh. 6:3-7 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Sam. 12:26-30 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 52:16-20 (5 in 5 verses)

Morm. 2:4 (4 in 1 verse)

Isa. 25:2-3 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:25-26 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 125:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

Josh. 21:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

Judg. 18:27-29 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 25:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

Acts 16:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 8:8-10 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 111:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

Num. 35:25-28 (4 in 4 verses)

Deut. 21:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

Deut. 22:21-24 (4 in 4 verses)

Judg. 20:37-40 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 5:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Kgs. 7:10-13 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Chr. 11:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Rev. 18:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Rev. 18:18-21 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 9:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 6:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 57:34-58:1 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Kgs. 25:19 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:25 (3 in 1 verse)

Jonah 4:5 (3 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:2 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:13 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:114 (3 in 1 verse)

Num. 35:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 17:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 45:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Amos 4:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 2:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 7:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 23:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 49:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 55:33-34 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Morm. 5:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 19:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 19:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 21:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 2:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 21:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 21:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)


2 Kgs. 19:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

 19:32 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

 19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.

 19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.




Isa. 37:33-35 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 38:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Jonah 3:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 8:33-9:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 4:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 10:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Acts 14:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 8:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 47:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 58:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 62:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 84:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 84:93-95 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 4:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 33:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 34:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 15:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 9:51 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 4:13 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 17:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 20:30 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 2:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 7:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 20:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 23:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 19:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 30:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 48:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 1:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 19:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 22:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 38:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 4:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 22:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 48:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 49:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 11:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 3:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 23:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 21:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 22:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 18:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 7:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 23:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 23:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 47:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 61:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 4:16 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 6:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 8:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 13:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 63:31 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 66:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 75:18 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 79:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 99:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 104:48 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:109 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 5:42 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 10:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 11:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 24:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 14:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 25:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 13:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 20:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 6:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 9:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 16:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 20:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 11:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 15:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 10:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 24:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 6:56-57 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 32:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 33:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Esth. 3:15-4:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 48:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 11:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 9:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Song. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 23:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 32:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 21:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 21:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 26:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 33:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 38:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 9:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 11:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 11:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 22:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 40:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 48:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 9:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 2:15-3:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 10:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 21:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 18:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 8:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 17:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 21:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 23:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 50:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 57:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 4:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 4:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:82-83 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 111:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:62-63 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:63-64 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 716 2 718
Gen. 41 0 41
Ex. 2 0 2
Lev. 7 0 7
Num. 14 0 14
Deut. 31 0 31
Josh. 69 0 69
Judg. 48 0 48
Ruth 5 0 5
1 Sam. 28 0 28
2 Sam. 38 1 39
1 Kgs. 39 0 39
2 Kgs. 51 0 51
1 Chr. 15 0 15
2 Chr. 39 0 39
Ezra 10 0 10
Neh. 11 0 11
Esth. 9 0 9
Job 3 0 3
Ps. 19 0 19
Prov. 13 1 14
Eccl. 5 0 5
Song. 3 0 3
Isa. 44 0 44
Jer. 81 0 81
Lam. 6 0 6
Ezek. 47 0 47
Dan. 5 0 5
Hosea 2 0 2
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 8 0 8
Jonah 8 0 8
Micah 2 0 2
Nahum 1 0 1
Hab. 3 0 3
Zeph. 2 0 2
Zech. 6 0 6
NT 152 3 155
BM 312 0 312
DC 67 12 79
PGP 8 0 8
TOTAL 1255 17 1272

2 Kgs. 2:19
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

2 Kgs. 2:23
And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

2 Kgs. 3:19
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

2 Kgs. 6:14
Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

2 Kgs. 6:15
And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

2 Kgs. 6:19
And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria.

2 Kgs. 7:4
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

2 Kgs. 7:10
So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.

2 Kgs. 7:12
And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.

2 Kgs. 7:13
And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.

2 Kgs. 8:24
And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 9:15
But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.

2 Kgs. 9:28
And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

2 Kgs. 10:2
Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;

2 Kgs. 10:5
And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.

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. 10:25
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. 11:20
And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

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. 14:20
And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

2 Kgs. 15:7
So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 15:38
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 16:20
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 17:9
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

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. 18:30
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

2 Kgs. 19:13
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

2 Kgs. 19:32
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

2 Kgs. 19:33
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.

2 Kgs. 19:34
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

2 Kgs. 20:6
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

2 Kgs. 20:20
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 23:8
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

2 Kgs. 23:17
Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.

2 Kgs. 23:27
And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

2 Kgs. 24:10
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

2 Kgs. 24:11
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.

2 Kgs. 25:2
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

2 Kgs. 25:3
And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

2 Kgs. 25:4
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

2 Kgs. 25:11
Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.

2 Kgs. 25:19
And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city: