Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'thousands' occurs 109 times in the standard works.

40 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'thousands' in the standard works and contain 36.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 18:7-8 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 28:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:22 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 37:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 31:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 33:17 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 21:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 29:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 144:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Micah 6:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 5:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 3:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 23:5 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 3:22 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:21 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 110:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 58 0 58
Gen. 1 0 1
Ex. 4 0 4
Num. 9 0 9
Deut. 5 0 5
Josh. 3 0 3
1 Sam. 13 0 13
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Chr. 7 0 7
2 Chr. 3 0 3
Ps. 5 0 5
Jer. 1 0 1
Dan. 2 0 2
Micah 3 0 3
NT 4 0 4
BM 42 0 42
DC 5 0 5
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 109 0 109

1 Sam. 8:12
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

1 Sam. 10:19
And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands.

1 Sam. 18:7
And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

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. 21:11
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

1 Sam. 22:7
Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;

1 Sam. 23:23
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

1 Sam. 29:2
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.

1 Sam. 29:5
Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?