Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'beth' occurs 225 times in the standard works.

112 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'beth' in the standard works and contain 49.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 44 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 6:12-15 (5 in 4 verses)

Judg. 1:33 (4 in 1 verse)

Josh. 18:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:32-13:1 (4 in 3 verses)

Josh. 18:19-22 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 4:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 2:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 48:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Amos 5:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 35:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 16:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 7:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 17:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 6:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 23:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 11:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 13:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 32:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 7:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 19:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 19:38 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 19:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 21:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 1:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 2:51 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 4:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 8:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 35:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 10:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:58-59 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 19:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 19:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 1:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ruth 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 7:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 11:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 10:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 225 25 250
Gen. 15 9 24
Num. 3 0 3
Deut. 3 0 3
Josh. 49 3 52
Judg. 23 0 23
Ruth 7 0 7
1 Sam. 27 0 27
2 Sam. 10 0 10
1 Kgs. 17 5 22
2 Kgs. 13 0 13
1 Chr. 17 1 18
2 Chr. 9 1 10
Ezra 2 1 3
Neh. 7 2 9
Esth. 0 1 1
Prov. 0 1 1
Song. 0 1 1
Jer. 7 0 7
Ezek. 1 0 1
Hosea 6 0 6
Amos 7 0 7
Micah 2 0 2
NT 0 43 43
BM 0 1 1
DC 0 1 1
PGP 0 3 3
TOTAL 225 73 298

1 Sam. 6:9
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

1 Sam. 6:12
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh.

1 Sam. 6:13
And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

1 Sam. 6:14
And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.

1 Sam. 6:15
And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the Lord.

1 Sam. 6:18
And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the Lord: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite.

1 Sam. 6:19
And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

1 Sam. 6:20
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

1 Sam. 7:11
And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.

1 Sam. 7:16
And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

1 Sam. 10:3
Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

1 Sam. 13:2
Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

1 Sam. 13:5
And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.

1 Sam. 13:18
And another company turned the way to Beth-horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

1 Sam. 14:23
So the Lord saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.

1 Sam. 16:1
And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

1 Sam. 16:4
And Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?

1 Sam. 16:18
Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.

1 Sam. 17:12
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

1 Sam. 17:15
But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

1 Sam. 17:58
And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.

1 Sam. 20:6
If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

1 Sam. 20:28
And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:

1 Sam. 30:27
To them which were in Beth-el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,

1 Sam. 31:10
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

1 Sam. 31:12
All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.