Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'eat' occurs 714 times in the standard works.

337 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'eat' in the standard works and contain 47.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 143 minutes to read the entire list.

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Deut. 12:15-27 (16 in 13 verses)

Lev. 22:4-16 (13 in 13 verses)

Deut. 14:3-12 (10 in 10 verses)


2 Kgs. 4:40-44 (7 in 5 verses)

 4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

 4:41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.

 4:42 And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

 4:43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

 4:44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord.




Ex. 12:7-11 (6 in 5 verses)

Gen. 3:1-6 (6 in 6 verses)

Ezek. 2:8-3:3 (6 in 6 verses)

Moses 4:7-12 (6 in 6 verses)

Num. 11:18-21 (5 in 4 verses)

Deut. 15:22-16:3 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:15-19 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 4:9-13 (5 in 5 verses)

John 6:49-53 (5 in 5 verses)

Jer. 5:17 (4 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 6:28-29 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 3:17-19 (4 in 3 verses)

Moses 4:23-25 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 3:11-14 (4 in 4 verses)

Lev. 11:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

Lev. 25:19-22 (4 in 4 verses)

Num. 18:10-13 (4 in 4 verses)

Deut. 14:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Sam. 9:10-13 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 19:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Mark 7:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Cor. 8:7-10 (4 in 4 verses)

Moses 4:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 9:13 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 29:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 21:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:36-37 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 12:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 12:43-45 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 6:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 10:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 11:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 17:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 13:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 14:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 13:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 39:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

John 4:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 11:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 24:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 31:54 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 43:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 10:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 16:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 23:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 8:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 26:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 2:14 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 9:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 16:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 19:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 14:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 53:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 13:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 7:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 37:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 51:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 19:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 5:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 12:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 2:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 14:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 6:4 (2 in 1 verse)

John 6:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 8:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 17:22 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 19:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 2:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 12:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 11:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 19:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 6:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 11:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 16:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 28:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 12:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 13:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 78:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 23:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 2:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 5:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 10:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Song. 4:16-5:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 55:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 65:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 12:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 1:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 4:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 9:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 15:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 8:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 17:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 22:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 10:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 11:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 28:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 520 2027 2547
Gen. 49 108 157
Ex. 41 106 147
Lev. 62 117 179
Num. 20 97 117
Deut. 65 102 167
Josh. 3 44 47
Judg. 11 40 51
Ruth 2 7 9
1 Sam. 18 76 94
2 Sam. 21 62 83
1 Kgs. 29 61 90
2 Kgs. 26 53 79
1 Chr. 1 44 45
2 Chr. 4 79 83
Ezra 4 17 21
Neh. 6 38 44
Esth. 1 13 14
Job 4 84 88
Ps. 17 199 216
Prov. 15 54 69
Eccl. 12 22 34
Song. 2 4 6
Isa. 30 103 133
Jer. 17 116 133
Lam. 1 16 17
Ezek. 31 181 212
Dan. 6 62 68
Hosea 6 11 17
Joel 1 26 27
Amos 4 17 21
Obad. 1 5 6
Jonah 0 11 11
Micah 3 7 10
Nahum 1 5 6
Hab. 1 7 8
Zeph. 0 4 4
Hag. 1 3 4
Zech. 4 17 21
Mal. 0 9 9
NT 135 722 857
BM 30 1261 1291
DC 8 279 287
PGP 21 166 187
TOTAL 714 4455 5169

2 Kgs. 1:1
Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

2 Kgs. 1:8
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

2 Kgs. 2:21
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

2 Kgs. 3:20
And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

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. 3:27
Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

2 Kgs. 4:8
And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

2 Kgs. 4:38
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

2 Kgs. 4:40
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

2 Kgs. 4:41
But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.

2 Kgs. 4:42
And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

2 Kgs. 4:43
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

2 Kgs. 4:44
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 5:1
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

2 Kgs. 5:13
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

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. 6:22
And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

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. 6:25
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kgs. 6:28
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

2 Kgs. 6:29
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

2 Kgs. 7:2
Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

2 Kgs. 7:6
For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

2 Kgs. 7:8
And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.

2 Kgs. 7:19
And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

2 Kgs. 8:4
And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.

2 Kgs. 8:13
And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.

2 Kgs. 9:10
And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.

2 Kgs. 9:34
And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.

2 Kgs. 9:36
Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

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. 10:11
So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

2 Kgs. 10:19
Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

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. 13:25
And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

2 Kgs. 14:6
But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

2 Kgs. 14:17
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

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. 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

2 Kgs. 16:13
And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

2 Kgs. 16:15
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to inquire by.

2 Kgs. 17:8
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

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. 17:15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

2 Kgs. 17:21
For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin.

2 Kgs. 17:36
But the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.

2 Kgs. 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

2 Kgs. 18:19
And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

2 Kgs. 18:27
But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

2 Kgs. 18:28
Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

2 Kgs. 18:31
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:

2 Kgs. 19:29
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

2 Kgs. 20:1
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

2 Kgs. 21:2
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Kgs. 22:13
Go ye, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

2 Kgs. 23:2
And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 23:9
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

2 Kgs. 23:12
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

2 Kgs. 23:26
Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

2 Kgs. 25:9
And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.

2 Kgs. 25:17
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.

2 Kgs. 25:26
And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.

2 Kgs. 25:29
And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.