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

Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

Job 8:4
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

Job 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

Job 19:18
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

Job 20:10
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

Job 21:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Job 21:19
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Job 24:5
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

Job 29:5
When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Job 41:34
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.