Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'place' occurs 1003 times in the standard works.

311 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'place' in the standard works and contain 31% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 121 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 41:9-15 (7 in 7 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:6-10 (5 in 5 verses)


Jer. 19:3-7 (5 in 5 verses)

 19:3 And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

 19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

 19:5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

 19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

 19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.




Gen. 38:21-22 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:29-30 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 6:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 49:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

Deut. 14:23-25 (4 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:62-64 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 28:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 28:11 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 23:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Lev. 10:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 16:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 5:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 16:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 42:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 45:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 57:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 69:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 19:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 35:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 6:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 14:40-42 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 9:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 6:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 6:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 6:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 19:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 12:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 66:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 93:48-50 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 111:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 26:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 16:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 20:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 32:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 16:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 16:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 26:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 26:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:10 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 17:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 8:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 32:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 46:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 49:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 60:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 12:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 43:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 27:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 6:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 15:22 (2 in 1 verse)

John 19:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 21:28 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 21:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Enos 1:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 20:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 41:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 47:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:36 (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 9:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 29:38 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 48:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 79:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 97:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:20 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:42 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:50 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 13:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 22:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 28:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 26:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 29:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 10:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 12:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 16:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 17:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 22:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 22:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 34:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 34:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 8:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 27:23-28:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 4:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 7:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 16:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 22:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 46:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

John 14:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 6:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 4:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 15:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 14:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 8:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:128-129 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 90:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 100:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:59-60 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 610 230 840
Gen. 48 10 58
Ex. 26 8 34
Lev. 37 1 38
Num. 26 4 30
Deut. 40 4 44
Josh. 13 1 14
Judg. 19 5 24
Ruth 3 0 3
1 Sam. 32 4 36
2 Sam. 18 6 24
1 Kgs. 29 13 42
2 Kgs. 15 30 45
1 Chr. 16 1 17
2 Chr. 39 20 59
Ezra 11 0 11
Neh. 10 4 14
Esth. 3 0 3
Job 28 6 34
Ps. 24 19 43
Prov. 6 4 10
Eccl. 10 0 10
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 37 18 55
Jer. 46 32 78
Lam. 0 3 3
Ezek. 48 22 70
Dan. 3 1 4
Hosea 6 2 8
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 1 3 4
Micah 2 3 5
Nahum 2 1 3
Hab. 0 2 2
Zeph. 3 0 3
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 6 1 7
Mal. 1 1 2
NT 105 22 127
BM 146 57 203
DC 120 38 158
PGP 22 6 28
TOTAL 1003 353 1356

Jer. 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Jer. 3:21
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jer. 4:7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

Jer. 4:11
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

Jer. 4:12
Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

Jer. 4:26
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.

Jer. 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Jer. 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

Jer. 6:3
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

Jer. 7:3
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

Jer. 7:6
If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

Jer. 7:7
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

Jer. 7:12
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

Jer. 7:14
Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

Jer. 7:20
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Jer. 7:29
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Jer. 7:31
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

Jer. 7:32
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

Jer. 8:3
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jer. 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jer. 12:12
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

Jer. 13:7
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

Jer. 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive.

Jer. 14:6
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Jer. 14:13
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

Jer. 16:2
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

Jer. 16:3
For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

Jer. 16:9
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Jer. 17:3
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

Jer. 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Jer. 17:12
A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

Jer. 17:26
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the Lord.

Jer. 18:14
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

Jer. 19:3
And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

Jer. 19:4
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

Jer. 19:5
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

Jer. 19:6
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

Jer. 19:7
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Jer. 19:11
And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.

Jer. 19:12
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:

Jer. 19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

Jer. 22:3
Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jer. 22:11
For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:

Jer. 22:12
But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

Jer. 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

Jer. 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

Jer. 24:5
Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

Jer. 24:9
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

Jer. 26:18
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Jer. 27:22
They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the Lord; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

Jer. 28:3
Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:

Jer. 28:4
And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the Lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Jer. 28:6
Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the Lord's house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

Jer. 29:10
For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Jer. 29:14
And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Jer. 30:18
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

Jer. 32:35
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Jer. 32:37
Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

Jer. 32:44
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord.

Jer. 33:10
Thus saith the Lord; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

Jer. 33:12
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Jer. 33:13
In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the Lord.

Jer. 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

Jer. 40:2
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

Jer. 40:12
Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

Jer. 42:18
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

Jer. 42:22
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

Jer. 44:29
And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

Jer. 45:5
And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

Jer. 48:35
Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

Jer. 49:10
But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

Jer. 50:6
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

Jer. 51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

Jer. 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

Jer. 51:62
Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.