Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'flee' occurs 177 times in the standard works.

38 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'flee' in the standard works and contain 21.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 15 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 30:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)


Josh. 8:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

 8:5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

 8:6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.




Deut. 19:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 4:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 19:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Zech. 14:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 3:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 17:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 15:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 15:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 20:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 56:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 2:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 90 18 108
Gen. 4 0 4
Ex. 3 0 3
Lev. 2 1 3
Num. 5 0 5
Deut. 6 3 9
Josh. 7 0 7
Judg. 1 7 8
2 Sam. 6 0 6
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 5 3 8
Ps. 6 0 6
Prov. 2 0 2
Song. 2 0 2
Isa. 14 1 15
Jer. 12 2 14
Amos 4 1 5
Jonah 1 0 1
Nahum 3 0 3
Zech. 3 0 3
NT 15 2 17
BM 63 5 68
DC 6 0 6
PGP 3 0 3
TOTAL 177 25 202

Josh. 8:5
And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

Josh. 8:6
(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

Josh. 8:20
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

Josh. 20:3
That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Josh. 20:4
And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Josh. 20:9
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.