Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sun' occurs 200 times in the standard works.

35 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sun' in the standard works and contain 17.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 14 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 2:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

Josh. 10:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:70-71 (3 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 1:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 8:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 9:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 30:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 38:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jonah 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 12:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:7 (2 in 1 verse)


2 Sam. 12:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

 12:11 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

 12:12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.




Isa. 60:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 130 37 167
Gen. 6 0 6
Ex. 4 0 4
Lev. 1 2 3
Num. 2 3 5
Deut. 8 2 10
Josh. 7 5 12
Judg. 5 1 6
1 Sam. 1 1 2
2 Sam. 5 0 5
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 4 2 6
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 4 3 7
Ps. 14 6 20
Eccl. 35 0 35
Song. 2 0 2
Isa. 12 3 15
Jer. 3 3 6
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 2 1 3
Dan. 1 0 1
Joel 3 0 3
Amos 1 0 1
Jonah 2 0 2
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 1 1 2
Hab. 1 1 2
Zech. 0 2 2
Mal. 2 0 2
NT 30 15 45
BM 14 18 32
DC 20 7 27
PGP 6 1 7
TOTAL 200 78 278

2 Sam. 2:24
Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

2 Sam. 3:35
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.

2 Sam. 12:11
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

2 Sam. 12:12
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

2 Sam. 23:4
And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.