Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'governor' occurs 90 times in the standard works.

28 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'governor' in the standard works and contain 31.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 6:22-25 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 61:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)


3 Ne. 3:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

 3:1 And now it came to pass that in the sixteenth year from the coming of Christ, Lachoneus, the governor of the land, received an epistle from the leader and the governor of this band of robbers; and these were the words which were written, saying:

 3:2 Lachoneus, most noble and chief governor of the land, behold, I write this epistle unto you, and do give unto you exceedingly great praise because of your firmness, and also the firmness of your people, in maintaining that which ye suppose to be your right and liberty; yea, ye do stand well, as if ye were supported by the hand of a god, in the defence of your liberty, and your property, and your country, or that which ye do call so.




Neh. 5:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 27:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:1 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 3:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 6:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 27:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

John 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 23:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:87-88 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 35 19 54
NT 25 3 28
BM 26 1 27
Alma 10 1 11
Hel. 4 0 4
3 Ne. 12 0 12
DC 4 1 5
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 90 24 114

3 Ne. 1:1
Now it came to pass that the ninety and first year had passed away and it was six hundred years from the time that Lehi left Jerusalem; and it was in the year that Lachoneus was the chief judge and the governor over the land.

3 Ne. 3:1
And now it came to pass that in the sixteenth year from the coming of Christ, Lachoneus, the governor of the land, received an epistle from the leader and the governor of this band of robbers; and these were the words which were written, saying:

3 Ne. 3:2
Lachoneus, most noble and chief governor of the land, behold, I write this epistle unto you, and do give unto you exceedingly great praise because of your firmness, and also the firmness of your people, in maintaining that which ye suppose to be your right and liberty; yea, ye do stand well, as if ye were supported by the hand of a god, in the defence of your liberty, and your property, and your country, or that which ye do call so.

3 Ne. 3:9
And behold, I am Giddianhi; and I am the governor of this the secret society of Gadianton; which society and the works thereof I know to be good; and they are of ancient date and they have been handed down unto us.

3 Ne. 3:12
Now behold, this Lachoneus, the governor, was a just man, and could not be frightened by the demands and the threatenings of a robber; therefore he did not hearken to the epistle of Giddianhi, the governor of the robbers, but he did cause that his people should cry unto the Lord for strength against the time that the robbers should come down against them.

3 Ne. 6:22
Now there was no lawyer nor judge nor high priest that could have power to condemn any one to death save their condemnation was signed by the governor of the land.

3 Ne. 6:23
Now there were many of those who testified of the things pertaining to Christ who testified boldly, who were taken and put to death secretly by the judges, that the knowledge of their death came not unto the governor of the land until after their death.

3 Ne. 6:24
Now behold, this was contrary to the laws of the land, that any man should be put to death except they had power from the governor of the land--

3 Ne. 6:25
Therefore a complaint came up unto the land of Zarahemla, to the governor of the land, against these judges who had condemned the prophets of the Lord unto death, not according to the law.

3 Ne. 6:30
And they did set at defiance the law and the rights of their country; and they did covenant one with another to destroy the governor, and to establish a king over the land, that the land should no more be at liberty but should be subject unto kings.