Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'grievous' occurs 56 times in the standard works.

8 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'grievous' in the standard works and contain 14.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Kgs. 12:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 10:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 95:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 21:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 30 7 37
Gen. 6 0 6
Ex. 5 0 5
1 Kgs. 3 0 3
2 Chr. 2 0 2
Ps. 2 0 2
Prov. 2 0 2
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 2 3 5
Jer. 6 1 7
Lam. 0 2 2
Ezek. 0 1 1
Nahum 1 0 1
NT 8 2 10
BM 8 2 10
DC 8 0 8
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 56 11 67

Ex. 8:24
And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

Ex. 9:3
Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

Ex. 9:18
Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

Ex. 9:24
So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Ex. 10:14
And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.