Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'dwell' occurs 429 times in the standard works.

117 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'dwell' in the standard works and contain 27.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 47 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 13:28-29 (4 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 23:42-43 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 12:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Neh. 11:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 40:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 50:39-40 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 28:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:99-100 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 34:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 47:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 35:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 68:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 33:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 13:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 13:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 34:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 13:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 2:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 33:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 27:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 44:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 48:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 17:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 37:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 130:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 6:57 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 29:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 25:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 35:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 11:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 17:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 23:6-24:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 69:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 101:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 42:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 43:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 44:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 49:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 38:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 7:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 2:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 8:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 7:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 305 129 434
Gen. 25 7 32
Ex. 7 1 8
Lev. 9 10 19
Num. 17 4 21
Deut. 17 4 21
Josh. 14 3 17
Judg. 8 0 8
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 3 3 6
2 Sam. 3 2 5
1 Kgs. 7 5 12
2 Kgs. 5 2 7
1 Chr. 4 3 7
2 Chr. 6 7 13
Ezra 2 0 2
Neh. 4 0 4
Job 6 8 14
Ps. 36 17 53
Prov. 6 3 9
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 25 9 34
Jer. 53 12 65
Lam. 0 2 2
Ezek. 22 10 32
Dan. 3 5 8
Hosea 3 1 4
Joel 1 2 3
Amos 3 1 4
Obad. 0 1 1
Micah 3 0 3
Nahum 2 1 3
Hab. 2 1 3
Zeph. 1 2 3
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 7 1 8
NT 33 34 67
BM 56 14 70
DC 26 3 29
PGP 9 0 9
TOTAL 429 180 609

Gen. 10:30
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

Gen. 13:7
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

Gen. 13:12
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Gen. 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

Gen. 25:27
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

Gen. 27:39
And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

Ex. 10:23
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

Lev. 3:17
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Lev. 7:26
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Lev. 19:34
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Lev. 23:3
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

Lev. 23:14
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Lev. 23:21
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

Lev. 23:31
Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Lev. 25:29
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

Lev. 25:39
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

Lev. 25:47
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

Num. 13:18
And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

Num. 21:15
And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.

Num. 24:21
And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.

Num. 35:29
So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Deut. 12:29
When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

Deut. 19:1
When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

Deut. 26:1
And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;

Deut. 33:20
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

Josh. 6:25
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Josh. 13:21
And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.

Josh. 22:19
Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the Lord, wherein the Lord's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the Lord, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God.

Ruth 1:4
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

1 Sam. 4:4
So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Sam. 12:11
And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.

1 Sam. 27:11
And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.

2 Sam. 6:2
And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.

2 Sam. 7:2
That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

1 Kgs. 8:30
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

1 Kgs. 8:39
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

1 Kgs. 8:43
Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

1 Kgs. 8:49
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

1 Kgs. 21:8
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.

2 Kgs. 17:25
And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord: therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which slew some of them.

2 Kgs. 19:15
And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

1 Chr. 6:32
And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.

1 Chr. 6:54
Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.

1 Chr. 13:6
And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.

2 Chr. 6:2
But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

2 Chr. 6:21
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

2 Chr. 6:30
Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

2 Chr. 6:33
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

2 Chr. 6:39
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

2 Chr. 30:27
Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.

2 Chr. 36:15
And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

Job 8:22
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

Job 15:28
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

Job 18:19
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Job 18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Job 21:28
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

Job 39:6
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Job 39:28
She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

Ps. 9:11
Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

Ps. 26:8
Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

Ps. 49:11
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Ps. 49:14
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Ps. 52:5
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Ps. 55:15
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Ps. 74:7
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

Ps. 76:2
In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

Ps. 79:7
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Ps. 80:1
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

Ps. 87:2
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Ps. 90:1
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Ps. 91:1
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Ps. 91:10
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

Ps. 113:5
Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high,

Ps. 123:1
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Ps. 135:21
Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.

Prov. 3:29
Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Prov. 21:20
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

Prov. 24:15
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

Song. 8:13
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

Isa. 4:5
And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Isa. 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

Isa. 10:24
Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

Isa. 18:3
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

Isa. 18:4
For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Isa. 32:18
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

Isa. 33:5
The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

Isa. 37:16
O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

Isa. 47:8
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

Jer. 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

Jer. 29:16
Know that thus saith the Lord of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

Jer. 30:18
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

Jer. 44:2
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

Jer. 46:19
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

Jer. 49:16
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

Jer. 49:31
Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the Lord, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.

Jer. 49:33
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Jer. 51:13
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

Jer. 51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

Jer. 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

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.

Lam. 1:3
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

Lam. 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

Ezek. 6:6
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Ezek. 7:7
The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

Ezek. 12:2
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

Ezek. 16:46
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Ezek. 17:16
As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

Ezek. 25:4
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

Ezek. 37:23
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezek. 38:11
And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

Ezek. 38:14
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

Ezek. 48:15
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

Dan. 2:11
And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

Dan. 2:22
He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

Dan. 4:25
That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

Dan. 4:32
And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

Dan. 5:21
And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

Hosea 4:3
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Joel 3:17
So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

Joel 3:21
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.

Amos 8:8
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

Obad. 1:3
The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

Nahum 2:11
Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

Hab. 1:6
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

Zeph. 2:6
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

Zeph. 3:7
I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

Zech. 2:7
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.