Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'bones' occurs 118 times in the standard works.

50 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'bones' in the standard works and contain 42.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 19 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Sam. 21:12-14 (6 in 3 verses)

Jer. 8:1 (5 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 23:14-18 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:16-20 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 37:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 37:3-7 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 24:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 13:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 13:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 40:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 37:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 130:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Micah 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 21:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 129:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 94 0 94
NT 5 0 5
BM 9 0 9
Omni 1 0 1
Mosiah 3 0 3
Alma 3 0 3
Morm. 1 0 1
Ether 1 0 1
DC 8 0 8
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 118 0 118

Alma 2:38
And it came to pass that many died in the wilderness of their wounds, and were devoured by those beasts and also the vultures of the air; and their bones have been found, and have been heaped up on the earth.

Alma 3:3
And now as many of the Lamanites and the Amlicites who had been slain upon the bank of the river Sidon were cast into the waters of Sidon; and behold their bones are in the depths of the sea, and they are many.

Alma 22:30
And it bordered upon the land which they called Desolation, it being so far northward that it came into the land which had been peopled and been destroyed, of whose bones we have spoken, which was discovered by the people of Zarahemla, it being the place of their first landing.