Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'old' occurs 520 times in the standard works.

148 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'old' in the standard works and contain 28.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 56 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 107:45-52 (8 in 8 verses)

Lev. 27:3-7 (7 in 5 verses)

Luke 5:36-39 (5 in 4 verses)

Ether 9:23-26 (5 in 4 verses)

Josh. 9:4-5 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 18:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

Ether 13:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 15:9 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 65:20 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 38:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Mark 2:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 10:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 19:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 63:49-51 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 17:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 25:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 44:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 7:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 25:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 26:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:43 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 29:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 24:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 26:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 8:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 8:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 7:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 9:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 8:12 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:56 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 16:16-17:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 17:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 21:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 27:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 37:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 3:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 23:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 19:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 2:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 31:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 102:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 9:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 5:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 10:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 8:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 328 2183 2511
Gen. 46 189 235
Ex. 5 164 169
Lev. 13 47 60
Num. 44 67 111
Deut. 9 38 47
Josh. 16 31 47
Judg. 7 81 88
Ruth 2 7 9
1 Sam. 11 129 140
2 Sam. 6 97 103
1 Kgs. 12 128 140
2 Kgs. 17 108 125
1 Chr. 6 42 48
2 Chr. 29 96 125
Ezra 3 21 24
Neh. 4 20 24
Esth. 1 24 25
Job 8 98 106
Ps. 22 88 110
Prov. 6 47 53
Eccl. 2 18 20
Song. 1 17 18
Isa. 20 159 179
Jer. 12 159 171
Lam. 6 14 20
Ezek. 7 133 140
Dan. 1 49 50
Hosea 0 4 4
Joel 2 8 10
Amos 1 18 19
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 0 1 1
Micah 4 8 12
Nahum 2 10 12
Hab. 0 11 11
Zeph. 0 6 6
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 2 37 39
Mal. 1 7 8
NT 52 538 590
BM 91 1917 2008
DC 42 599 641
PGP 7 100 107
TOTAL 520 5337 5857

1 Kgs. 1:14
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.

1 Kgs. 1:18
And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:

1 Kgs. 1:23
And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

1 Kgs. 1:25
For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.

1 Kgs. 1:42
And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.

1 Kgs. 1:50
And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

1 Kgs. 1:51
And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword.

1 Kgs. 2:8
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

1 Kgs. 2:9
Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

1 Kgs. 2:28
Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

1 Kgs. 2:29
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

1 Kgs. 2:39
And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.

1 Kgs. 2:41
And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

1 Kgs. 3:12
Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

1 Kgs. 3:15
And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

1 Kgs. 3:21
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

1 Kgs. 4:6
And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.

1 Kgs. 4:7
And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.

1 Kgs. 5:5
And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.

1 Kgs. 5:9
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

1 Kgs. 5:11
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

1 Kgs. 6:20
And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.

1 Kgs. 6:21
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

1 Kgs. 6:22
And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

1 Kgs. 6:28
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

1 Kgs. 6:30
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

1 Kgs. 6:32
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.

1 Kgs. 6:34
And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

1 Kgs. 6:35
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

1 Kgs. 7:48
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,

1 Kgs. 7:49
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,

1 Kgs. 7:50
And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.

1 Kgs. 7:51
So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord.

1 Kgs. 8:5
And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

1 Kgs. 8:27
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

1 Kgs. 9:9
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.

1 Kgs. 9:11
(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

1 Kgs. 9:14
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

1 Kgs. 9:28
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

1 Kgs. 10:2
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

1 Kgs. 10:3
And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

1 Kgs. 10:7
Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

1 Kgs. 10:10
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

1 Kgs. 10:11
And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

1 Kgs. 10:14
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

1 Kgs. 10:16
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

1 Kgs. 10:17
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

1 Kgs. 10:18
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

1 Kgs. 10:21
And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

1 Kgs. 10:22
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

1 Kgs. 10:25
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

1 Kgs. 11:20
And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.

1 Kgs. 11:22
Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.

1 Kgs. 11:31
And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

1 Kgs. 12:28
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kgs. 13:1
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

1 Kgs. 13:2
And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.

1 Kgs. 13:3
And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the Lord hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.

1 Kgs. 13:4
And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.

1 Kgs. 13:11
Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

1 Kgs. 13:25
And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

1 Kgs. 14:2
And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

1 Kgs. 14:5
And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

1 Kgs. 14:10
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

1 Kgs. 14:17
And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

1 Kgs. 14:19
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

1 Kgs. 14:26
And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

1 Kgs. 15:15
And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.

1 Kgs. 15:18
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

1 Kgs. 15:19
There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

1 Kgs. 16:3
Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

1 Kgs. 17:9
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

1 Kgs. 17:10
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

1 Kgs. 17:12
And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

1 Kgs. 18:7
And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?

1 Kgs. 18:8
And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

1 Kgs. 18:11
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

1 Kgs. 18:13
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kgs. 18:14
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

1 Kgs. 18:16
So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

1 Kgs. 18:44
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

1 Kgs. 19:1
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kgs. 19:5
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

1 Kgs. 19:6
And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.

1 Kgs. 19:9
And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

1 Kgs. 19:11
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

1 Kgs. 19:13
And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

1 Kgs. 20:3
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

1 Kgs. 20:5
And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;

1 Kgs. 20:7
Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

1 Kgs. 20:13
And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

1 Kgs. 20:17
And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.

1 Kgs. 20:31
And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

1 Kgs. 20:36
Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

1 Kgs. 20:39
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

1 Kgs. 21:18
Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.

1 Kgs. 21:20
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.

1 Kgs. 21:21
Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,

1 Kgs. 22:13
And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.

1 Kgs. 22:23
Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.

1 Kgs. 22:25
And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

1 Kgs. 22:48
Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.