Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'pleased' occurs 92 times in the standard works.

14 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'pleased' in the standard works and contain 15.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Sam. 3:36 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 5:32 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 90:35 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 15:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 7:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 36 21 57
Gen. 4 2 6
Num. 1 2 3
Deut. 1 0 1
Josh. 2 0 2
Judg. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 3 2 5
2 Sam. 4 2 6
1 Kgs. 3 3 6
1 Chr. 0 2 2
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Esth. 4 0 4
Ps. 4 1 5
Isa. 2 1 3
Dan. 1 1 2
Jonah 1 1 2
Micah 1 0 1
Hab. 0 1 1
Zech. 0 3 3
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 26 4 30
BM 6 2 8
DC 21 1 22
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 92 29 121

Gen. 28:8
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

Gen. 33:10
And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

Gen. 34:18
And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

Gen. 38:10
And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

Gen. 45:16
And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

Gen. 48:17
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

Num. 11:1
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

Num. 11:10
Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

Num. 24:1
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Deut. 1:23
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

Josh. 22:30
And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.

Josh. 22:33
And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.

Judg. 13:23
But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

Judg. 14:7
And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

1 Sam. 8:6
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.

1 Sam. 12:22
For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.

1 Sam. 18:8
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

1 Sam. 18:20
And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

1 Sam. 18:26
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.

2 Sam. 3:36
And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

2 Sam. 6:8
And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.

2 Sam. 11:27
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

2 Sam. 17:4
And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

2 Sam. 19:6
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.

1 Kgs. 1:6
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

1 Kgs. 3:10
And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

1 Kgs. 9:1
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Kgs. 9:12
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

1 Kgs. 20:43
And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.

1 Kgs. 21:4
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

1 Chr. 13:11
And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.

1 Chr. 21:7
And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

2 Chr. 30:4
And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

Neh. 2:6
And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

Esth. 1:21
And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

Esth. 2:4
And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

Esth. 2:9
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.

Esth. 5:14
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

Ps. 40:13
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.

Ps. 51:19
Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Ps. 60:1
O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

Ps. 115:3
But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

Ps. 135:6
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

Isa. 42:21
The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

Isa. 53:10
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Isa. 59:15
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

Dan. 6:1
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;

Dan. 6:14
Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

Jonah 1:14
Wherefore they cried unto the Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.

Jonah 4:1
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

Micah 6:7
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Hab. 3:8
Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?

Zech. 1:2
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

Zech. 1:15
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Mal. 1:8
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the Lord of hosts.