Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'letter' occurs 45 times in the standard works.

19 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'letter' in the standard works and contain 42.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Kgs. 5:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

 5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

 5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.

 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.




Ezra 5:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Cor. 3:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 20:84 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 11:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 10:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 128:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 26 23 49
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 0 4 4
2 Kgs. 8 2 10
2 Chr. 0 3 3
Ezra 9 0 9
Neh. 2 5 7
Esth. 2 7 9
Isa. 1 1 2
Jer. 2 1 3
NT 11 11 22
BM 0 0 0
DC 8 0 8
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 45 34 79

2 Kgs. 5:5
And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

2 Kgs. 5:6
And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.

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. 10:1
And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,

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. 10:6
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. 10:7
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

2 Kgs. 19:14
And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.

2 Kgs. 20:12
At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.