Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'child' occurs 242 times in the standard works.

94 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'child' in the standard works and contain 38.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 40 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Sam. 12:14-22 (13 in 9 verses)

2 Kgs. 4:26-35 (11 in 10 verses)

Ex. 2:6-10 (6 in 5 verses)

1 Cor. 13:11 (4 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 3:25-27 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 17:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)

Matt. 2:11-14 (4 in 4 verses)

Rev. 12:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

Matt. 2:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 21:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 3:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 11:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 21:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 30:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 131:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 31:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 38:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 13:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 1:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 26:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 18:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 9:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 144 1670 1814
Gen. 17 64 81
Ex. 10 140 150
Lev. 3 63 66
Num. 1 263 264
Deut. 1 71 72
Josh. 0 192 192
Judg. 6 131 137
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 13 25 38
2 Sam. 15 29 44
1 Kgs. 18 33 51
2 Kgs. 16 36 52
1 Chr. 0 66 66
2 Chr. 0 53 53
Ezra 0 113 113
Neh. 0 114 114
Esth. 0 2 2
Job 2 14 16
Ps. 2 54 56
Prov. 7 13 20
Eccl. 5 2 7
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 14 38 52
Jer. 9 50 59
Lam. 1 9 10
Ezek. 0 32 32
Dan. 0 13 13
Hosea 2 18 20
Joel 0 11 11
Amos 1 7 8
Obad. 0 2 2
Micah 0 3 3
Nahum 0 1 1
Zeph. 0 3 3
Zech. 0 2 2
Mal. 0 2 2
NT 61 163 224
BM 34 351 385
DC 1 135 136
PGP 2 32 34
TOTAL 242 2351 2593

1 Kgs. 2:4
That the Lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

1 Kgs. 3:7
And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

1 Kgs. 3:17
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

1 Kgs. 3:19
And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

1 Kgs. 3:20
And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

1 Kgs. 3:21
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

1 Kgs. 3:25
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

1 Kgs. 3:26
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

1 Kgs. 3:27
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

1 Kgs. 4:30
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kgs. 6:1
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.

1 Kgs. 6:13
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

1 Kgs. 8:1
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

1 Kgs. 8:9
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kgs. 8:25
Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

1 Kgs. 8:39
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

1 Kgs. 8:63
And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.

1 Kgs. 9:6
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

1 Kgs. 9:20
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

1 Kgs. 9:21
Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

1 Kgs. 9:22
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

1 Kgs. 11:2
Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

1 Kgs. 11:7
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

1 Kgs. 11:17
That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.

1 Kgs. 11:33
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

1 Kgs. 12:17
But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

1 Kgs. 12:24
Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord, and returned to depart, according to the word of the Lord.

1 Kgs. 12:33
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

1 Kgs. 13:2
And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

1 Kgs. 14:3
And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

1 Kgs. 14:12
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

1 Kgs. 14:17
And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

1 Kgs. 14:24
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kgs. 17:21
And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.

1 Kgs. 17:22
And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

1 Kgs. 17:23
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.

1 Kgs. 18:20
So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

1 Kgs. 19:10
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

1 Kgs. 19:14
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

1 Kgs. 20:3
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

1 Kgs. 20:5
And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;

1 Kgs. 20:7
Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

1 Kgs. 20:15
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

1 Kgs. 20:27
And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

1 Kgs. 20:29
And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

1 Kgs. 21:13
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

1 Kgs. 21:26
And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.