Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'child' occurs 242 times in the standard works.

94 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'child' in the standard works and contain 38.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 40 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Sam. 12:14-22 (13 in 9 verses)

2 Kgs. 4:26-35 (11 in 10 verses)

Ex. 2:6-10 (6 in 5 verses)

1 Cor. 13:11 (4 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 3:25-27 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 17:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)

Matt. 2:11-14 (4 in 4 verses)

Rev. 12:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

Matt. 2:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 21:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 3:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 11:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 21:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 30:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 131:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 31:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 38:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 13:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 1:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 26:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 18:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 9:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 144 1670 1814
Gen. 17 64 81
Ex. 10 140 150
Lev. 3 63 66
Num. 1 263 264
Deut. 1 71 72
Josh. 0 192 192
Judg. 6 131 137
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 13 25 38
2 Sam. 15 29 44
1 Kgs. 18 33 51
2 Kgs. 16 36 52
1 Chr. 0 66 66
2 Chr. 0 53 53
Ezra 0 113 113
Neh. 0 114 114
Esth. 0 2 2
Job 2 14 16
Ps. 2 54 56
Prov. 7 13 20
Eccl. 5 2 7
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 14 38 52
Jer. 9 50 59
Lam. 1 9 10
Ezek. 0 32 32
Dan. 0 13 13
Hosea 2 18 20
Joel 0 11 11
Amos 1 7 8
Obad. 0 2 2
Micah 0 3 3
Nahum 0 1 1
Zeph. 0 3 3
Zech. 0 2 2
Mal. 0 2 2
NT 61 163 224
BM 34 351 385
DC 1 135 136
PGP 2 32 34
TOTAL 242 2351 2593

Jer. 1:6
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

Jer. 1:7
But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

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

Jer. 2:16
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

Jer. 2:30
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Jer. 3:14
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

Jer. 3:19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

Jer. 3:21
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jer. 3:22
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.

Jer. 4:22
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jer. 4:31
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

Jer. 5:7
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

Jer. 6:1
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

Jer. 6:11
Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

Jer. 7:18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Jer. 7:30
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

Jer. 9:21
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

Jer. 9:26
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

Jer. 10:20
My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

Jer. 15:7
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

Jer. 16:14
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

Jer. 16:15
But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

Jer. 17:2
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

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. 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

Jer. 20:15
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

Jer. 22:30
Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

Jer. 23:7
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

Jer. 25:21
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

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. 30:20
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

Jer. 31:8
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.

Jer. 31:15
Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

Jer. 31:17
And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

Jer. 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

Jer. 31:29
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Jer. 32:18
Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name,

Jer. 32:30
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the Lord.

Jer. 32:32
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jer. 32:39
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

Jer. 38:23
So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

Jer. 40:7
Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

Jer. 41:16
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:

Jer. 43:6
Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.

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. 47:3
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

Jer. 49:6
And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.

Jer. 49:11
Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

Jer. 50:4
In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their God.

Jer. 50:33
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.