Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'rent' occurs 86 times in the standard works.

22 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'rent' in the standard works and contain 25.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 10 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 46:19-23 (5 in 5 verses)


2 Kgs. 5:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

 5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

 5:8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.




Judg. 14:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 27:51 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 37:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 15:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 18:37-19:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 36:22-37:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 54 4 58
Gen. 4 1 5
Ex. 1 0 1
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 1 1 2
Josh. 3 0 3
Judg. 3 0 3
1 Sam. 4 0 4
2 Sam. 5 0 5
1 Kgs. 7 1 8
2 Kgs. 11 0 11
2 Chr. 2 0 2
Ezra 2 0 2
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 3 0 3
Isa. 3 0 3
Jer. 2 1 3
Ezek. 1 0 1
NT 12 22 34
BM 17 26 43
DC 2 9 11
PGP 1 7 8
TOTAL 86 68 154

2 Kgs. 2:12
And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

2 Kgs. 5:7
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

2 Kgs. 5:8
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

2 Kgs. 6:30
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

2 Kgs. 11:14
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.

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. 18:37
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.

2 Kgs. 19:1
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 22:11
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

2 Kgs. 22:19
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.