Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sit' occurs 150 times in the standard works.

25 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sit' in the standard works and contain 16.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 10 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 60:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)

Ruth 3:18-4:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 14:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:85-87 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 47:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 19:28 (2 in 1 verse)

James 2:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 38:26 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 9:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 70 191 261
Gen. 1 7 8
Ex. 0 17 17
Lev. 0 6 6
Num. 1 4 5
Deut. 0 9 9
Josh. 0 8 8
Judg. 1 7 8
Ruth 3 1 4
1 Sam. 3 3 6
2 Sam. 1 5 6
1 Kgs. 11 5 16
2 Kgs. 5 4 9
1 Chr. 1 6 7
2 Chr. 1 6 7
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 0 2 2
Esth. 0 3 3
Job 0 5 5
Ps. 7 22 29
Prov. 0 7 7
Eccl. 1 1 2
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 12 10 22
Jer. 8 30 38
Lam. 2 3 5
Ezek. 4 3 7
Dan. 2 0 2
Hosea 0 4 4
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 0 2 2
Micah 2 1 3
Nahum 0 1 1
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 2 5 7
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 43 72 115
BM 21 86 107
DC 16 49 65
PGP 0 19 19
TOTAL 150 417 567

Ezra 4:9
Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,

Ezra 9:1
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.