Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'battles' occurs 14 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'battles' in the standard works and contain 28.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 98:37 (2 in 1 verse)


D&C 105:14 (2 in 1 verse)

 105:14 For behold, I do not require at their hands to fight the battles of Zion; for, as I said in a former commandment, even so will I fulfil-- I will fight your battles.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 6 0 6
NT 0 0 0
BM 3 0 3
DC 5 0 5
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 14 0 14

1 Sam. 8:20
That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

1 Sam. 18:17
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the Lord's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

1 Sam. 25:28
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.

1 Chr. 26:27
Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord.

2 Chr. 32:8
With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Isa. 30:32
And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

Alma 25:3
And after that, they had many battles with the Nephites, in the which they were driven and slain.

Alma 53:2
And Moroni went to the city of Mulek with Lehi, and took command of the city and gave it unto Lehi. Now behold, this Lehi was a man who had been with Moroni in the more part of all his battles; and he was a man like unto Moroni, and they rejoiced in each other's safety; yea, they were beloved by each other, and also beloved by all the people of Nephi.

Morm. 1:11
And it came to pass that the Nephites had gathered together a great number of men, even to exceed the number of thirty thousand. And it came to pass that they did have in this same year a number of battles, in which the Nephites did beat the Lamanites and did slay many of them.

D&C 88:115
For Michael shall fight their battles, and shall overcome him who seeketh the throne of him who sitteth upon the throne, even the Lamb.

D&C 98:37
And I, the Lord, would fight their battles, and their children's battles, and their children's children's, until they had avenged themselves on all their enemies, to the third and fourth generation.

D&C 105:14
For behold, I do not require at their hands to fight the battles of Zion; for, as I said in a former commandment, even so will I fulfil-- I will fight your battles.