Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'host' occurs 198 times in the standard works.

66 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'host' in the standard works and contain 33.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 28 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 7:8-15 (9 in 8 verses)

 7:8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

 7:9 And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.

 7:10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:

 7:11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

 7:13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

 7:14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.

 7:15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.




Num. 10:22-27 (6 in 6 verses)

Dan. 8:10-13 (5 in 4 verses)

Judg. 4:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Judg. 7:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Judg. 8:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 12:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 10:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 10:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 24:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 7:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 14:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 2:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 9:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 34:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 2:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 14:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 16:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 24:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 188 312 500
Gen. 4 4 8
Ex. 7 1 8
Num. 27 3 30
Deut. 5 0 5
Josh. 6 2 8
Judg. 20 2 22
1 Sam. 13 5 18
2 Sam. 15 6 21
1 Kgs. 13 5 18
2 Kgs. 20 3 23
1 Chr. 18 3 21
2 Chr. 15 1 16
Neh. 2 0 2
Job 0 5 5
Ps. 4 18 22
Isa. 6 62 68
Jer. 5 84 89
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 1 0 1
Dan. 5 0 5
Hosea 0 1 1
Amos 0 9 9
Obad. 1 0 1
Micah 0 1 1
Nahum 0 2 2
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 1 2 3
Hag. 0 14 14
Zech. 0 53 53
Mal. 0 24 24
NT 4 98 102
BM 4 161 165
DC 0 72 72
PGP 2 17 19
TOTAL 198 660 858

Judg. 4:2
And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

Judg. 4:15
And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

Judg. 4:16
But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

Judg. 7:1
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

Judg. 7:8
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

Judg. 7:9
And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.

Judg. 7:10
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:

Judg. 7:11
And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

Judg. 7:13
And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

Judg. 7:14
And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.

Judg. 7:15
And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

Judg. 7:21
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.

Judg. 7:22
And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath.

Judg. 8:10
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

Judg. 8:11
And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.

Judg. 8:12
And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.