Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'away' occurs 1369 times in the standard works.

430 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'away' in the standard works and contain 31.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 178 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 1:29-2:10 (12 in 12 verses)

Alma 24:10-16 (7 in 7 verses)

4 Ne. 1:14-18 (6 in 5 verses)

Gen. 31:26-27 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:26-29 (5 in 4 verses)

Jacob 5:65-69 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 39:11-15 (5 in 5 verses)

Matt. 19:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 6:17-7:1 (4 in 3 verses)

4 Ne. 1:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

Abr. 1:15-17 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 3:21-24 (4 in 4 verses)

Job 12:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 29:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 52:27-30 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 17:43-46 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Esth. 2:6 (3 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:12 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:35-36 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

John 19:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 26:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 28:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:34-35 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 11:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 58:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 5:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 49:25-50:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 13:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 18:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 1:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 26:42-44 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Cor. 3:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 15:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 19:21-20:2 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 20:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:73-75 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 7:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Omni 1:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 30:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 11:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 1:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 45:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 4:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 26:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 13:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 30:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 18:24 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:15 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 20:34 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 25:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 12:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 20:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 28:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 30:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 20:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 34:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 68:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 1:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 24:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 25:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 57:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 29:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 39:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 40:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 41:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 38:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 44:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 5:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 24:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 13:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 9:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 16:18 (2 in 1 verse)

John 16:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 21:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 22:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 7:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 19:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 61:4 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:7 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 8:16 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 10:9 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 1:38 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 56:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 28:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 26:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 22:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)


2 Kgs. 24:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

 24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

 24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.




2 Kgs. 25:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 30:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 9:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 14:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 24:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 27:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 39:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 78:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 90:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 25:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 15:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 19:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 59:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 37:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 46:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 52:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 23:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 7:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 14:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 21:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 12:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 16:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 6:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 20:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

John 20:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 11:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 11:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 7:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 13:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Tim. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

James 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 1:20-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 14:30-15:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 74:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 109:52-53 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 2:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 704 0 704
Gen. 39 0 39
Ex. 17 0 17
Lev. 20 0 20
Num. 12 0 12
Deut. 30 0 30
Josh. 12 0 12
Judg. 18 0 18
1 Sam. 28 0 28
2 Sam. 22 0 22
1 Kgs. 29 0 29
2 Kgs. 35 0 35
1 Chr. 14 0 14
2 Chr. 39 0 39
Ezra 9 0 9
Neh. 2 0 2
Esth. 5 0 5
Job 48 0 48
Ps. 44 0 44
Prov. 23 0 23
Eccl. 5 0 5
Song. 6 0 6
Isa. 67 0 67
Jer. 70 0 70
Lam. 5 0 5
Ezek. 33 0 33
Dan. 12 0 12
Hosea 15 0 15
Joel 2 0 2
Amos 17 0 17
Obad. 1 0 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 4 0 4
Nahum 6 0 6
Zeph. 3 0 3
Zech. 7 0 7
Mal. 4 0 4
NT 211 1 212
BM 380 0 380
DC 55 0 55
PGP 19 0 19
TOTAL 1369 1 1370

2 Kgs. 2:3
And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

2 Kgs. 2:5
And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

2 Kgs. 2:9
And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

2 Kgs. 3:2
And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.

2 Kgs. 4:27
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

2 Kgs. 5:2
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.

2 Kgs. 5:11
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

2 Kgs. 5:12
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

2 Kgs. 6:23
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

2 Kgs. 6:32
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

2 Kgs. 7:15
And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

2 Kgs. 12:3
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Kgs. 12:18
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

2 Kgs. 14:4
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

2 Kgs. 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kgs. 17:11
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger:

2 Kgs. 17:23
Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

2 Kgs. 17:28
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

2 Kgs. 17:33
They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

2 Kgs. 18:11
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:

2 Kgs. 18:22
But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

2 Kgs. 18:24
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

2 Kgs. 18:32
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.

2 Kgs. 20:18
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

2 Kgs. 23:11
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

2 Kgs. 23:19
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

2 Kgs. 23:24
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 23:34
And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.

2 Kgs. 24:14
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

2 Kgs. 24:15
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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. 25:14
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

2 Kgs. 25:15
And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.

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.