Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'incense' occurs 129 times in the standard works.

37 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'incense' in the standard works and contain 28.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 15 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Chr. 26:16-19 (6 in 4 verses)

Ex. 30:7-9 (5 in 3 verses)

Lev. 16:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:33-13:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 44:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 1:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 35:15 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 23:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 16:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)


Num. 16:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

 16:46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

 16:47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.




2 Chr. 28:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 11:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 8:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 124 17 141
Ex. 19 1 20
Lev. 5 7 12
Num. 21 1 22
Deut. 1 0 1
1 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 7 0 7
2 Kgs. 11 0 11
1 Chr. 3 1 4
2 Chr. 17 0 17
Neh. 0 2 2
Ps. 2 0 2
Song. 0 3 3
Isa. 6 2 8
Jer. 23 0 23
Ezek. 3 0 3
Hosea 3 0 3
Hab. 1 0 1
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 5 2 7
BM 0 0 0
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 129 19 148

Num. 4:16
And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.

Num. 5:15
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Num. 7:14
One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:

Num. 7:20
One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:26
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:32
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:38
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:44
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:50
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:56
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:62
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:68
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:74
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:80
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Num. 7:86
The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.

Num. 16:7
And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the Lord to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.

Num. 16:17
And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.

Num. 16:18
And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.

Num. 16:35
And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Num. 16:40
To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.

Num. 16:46
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

Num. 16:47
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.