Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'kings' occurs 378 times in the standard works.

114 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'kings' in the standard works and contain 30.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 48 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 25:14-26 (13 in 13 verses)

Josh. 10:22-24 (4 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 29:13-16 (4 in 4 verses)

Ps. 72:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Prov. 31:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezra 9:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 9:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 43:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 17:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 17:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 31:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 5:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 11:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 5:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 10:29 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 20:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 20:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 23:22 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 1:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 2:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 7:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 9:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 51:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 14:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 10:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 10:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 11:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 10:19-11:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 12:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 13:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)


2 Kgs. 14:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

 14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

 14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.




2 Kgs. 14:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 9:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 28:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 4:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 136:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 16:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 25:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 60:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 17:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 19:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 19:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 301 1 302
Gen. 8 0 8
Num. 2 0 2
Deut. 5 0 5
Josh. 25 0 25
Judg. 7 0 7
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 26 0 26
2 Kgs. 48 0 48
1 Chr. 5 0 5
2 Chr. 31 0 31
Ezra 10 0 10
Neh. 5 0 5
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 3 1 4
Ps. 24 0 24
Prov. 10 0 10
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 19 0 19
Jer. 37 0 37
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 9 0 9
Dan. 14 0 14
Hosea 3 0 3
Micah 2 0 2
Hab. 1 0 1
NT 33 2 35
BM 35 7 42
DC 8 1 9
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 378 11 389

2 Kgs. 1:18
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kgs. 3:10
And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!

2 Kgs. 3:13
And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

2 Kgs. 3:21
And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.

2 Kgs. 3:23
And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

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. 8:18
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 8:23
And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 10:4
But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?

2 Kgs. 10:34
Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kgs. 11:19
And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

2 Kgs. 12:18
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

2 Kgs. 12:19
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 13:8
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kgs. 13:12
And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kgs. 13:13
And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

2 Kgs. 14:15
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kgs. 14:16
And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 14:18
And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 14:28
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kgs. 14:29
And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kgs. 15:6
And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 15:11
And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kgs. 15:15
And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kgs. 15:21
And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kgs. 15:26
And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kgs. 15:31
And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

2 Kgs. 15:36
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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. 16:19
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 17:2
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

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. 18:5
He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

2 Kgs. 19:11
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

2 Kgs. 19:17
Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

2 Kgs. 20:20
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 21:17
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 21:25
Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 23:5
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

2 Kgs. 23:11
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

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. 23:19
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

2 Kgs. 23:22
Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

2 Kgs. 23:28
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 24:5
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kgs. 25:28
And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;