Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'where' occurs 513 times in the standard works.

127 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'where' in the standard works and contain 24.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 44 minutes to read the entire list.

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Matt. 6:19-21 (5 in 3 verses)

Matt. 25:24-26 (4 in 3 verses)

Luke 22:9-11 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 13:19-21 (4 in 3 verses)

Job 38:19 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 33:18 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 1:20 (3 in 1 verse)

Rev. 2:13 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:25 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 134:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 35:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 2:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 14:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 12:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 31:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 2:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 26:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 18:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 21:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 28:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 69:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 26:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 1:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 19:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 36:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 63:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 66:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 46:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Nahum 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Mal. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 15:55 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 8:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 20:84 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 121:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 17:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ruth 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 23:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 21:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 11:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 4:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

John 11:57-12:1 (2 in 2 verses)

John 20:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 7:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:65-66 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 90:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 130:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 264 617 881
Gen. 25 33 58
Ex. 13 28 41
Lev. 7 28 35
Num. 6 57 63
Deut. 7 27 34
Josh. 4 19 23
Judg. 8 19 27
Ruth 6 1 7
1 Sam. 18 44 62
2 Sam. 12 29 41
1 Kgs. 6 25 31
2 Kgs. 11 23 34
1 Chr. 4 6 10
2 Chr. 3 28 31
Ezra 3 1 4
Neh. 2 7 9
Esth. 2 7 9
Job 26 20 46
Ps. 15 28 43
Prov. 6 1 7
Eccl. 4 10 14
Song. 2 4 6
Isa. 23 25 48
Jer. 19 54 73
Lam. 1 3 4
Ezek. 17 52 69
Dan. 1 13 14
Hosea 2 3 5
Joel 1 1 2
Amos 1 1 2
Jonah 0 2 2
Micah 1 2 3
Nahum 3 0 3
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 1 2 3
Zech. 1 3 4
Mal. 3 10 13
NT 137 244 381
BM 45 479 524
DC 52 257 309
PGP 15 44 59
TOTAL 513 1641 2154

Jer. 2:6
Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

Jer. 2:8
The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Jer. 2:9
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children's children will I plead.

Jer. 2:28
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

Jer. 2:29
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

Jer. 2:31
O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

Jer. 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Jer. 3:8
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Jer. 4:10
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

Jer. 5:6
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Jer. 5:14
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Jer. 5:17
And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

Jer. 5:19
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the Lord our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Jer. 6:16
Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Jer. 7:12
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

Jer. 7:14
Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

Jer. 12:1
Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Jer. 12:5
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

Jer. 13:7
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

Jer. 13:20
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

Jer. 13:22
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

Jer. 16:10
And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?

Jer. 16:13
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

Jer. 16:19
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Jer. 17:15
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

Jer. 17:19
Thus said the Lord unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

Jer. 18:10
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Jer. 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

Jer. 20:14
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Jer. 20:18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jer. 21:4
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

Jer. 22:8
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city?

Jer. 22:26
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

Jer. 22:27
But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

Jer. 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Jer. 23:6
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.

Jer. 23:12
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

Jer. 27:17
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

Jer. 30:6
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Jer. 31:9
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jer. 32:3
For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

Jer. 32:36
And now therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;

Jer. 32:43
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Jer. 33:8
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

Jer. 33:16
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our righteousness.

Jer. 35:7
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

Jer. 36:14
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

Jer. 36:19
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

Jer. 37:15
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Jer. 37:19
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

Jer. 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

Jer. 39:5
But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

Jer. 40:5
Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.

Jer. 40:15
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?

Jer. 41:9
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.

Jer. 42:3
That the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

Jer. 42:14
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

Jer. 42:16
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Jer. 44:6
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

Jer. 44:7
Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

Jer. 46:5
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.

Jer. 48:38
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord.

Jer. 49:4
Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?

Jer. 51:43
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

Jer. 51:52
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

Jer. 52:9
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

Jer. 52:18
The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.