Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sun' occurs 200 times in the standard works.

35 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sun' in the standard works and contain 17.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 14 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 2:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

Josh. 10:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:70-71 (3 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 1:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 8:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 9:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 30:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 38:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jonah 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 12:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:7 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 12:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)


Isa. 60:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

 60:19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

 60:20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 130 37 167
Gen. 6 0 6
Ex. 4 0 4
Lev. 1 2 3
Num. 2 3 5
Deut. 8 2 10
Josh. 7 5 12
Judg. 5 1 6
1 Sam. 1 1 2
2 Sam. 5 0 5
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 4 2 6
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 4 3 7
Ps. 14 6 20
Eccl. 35 0 35
Song. 2 0 2
Isa. 12 3 15
Jer. 3 3 6
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 2 1 3
Dan. 1 0 1
Joel 3 0 3
Amos 1 0 1
Jonah 2 0 2
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 1 1 2
Hab. 1 1 2
Zech. 0 2 2
Mal. 2 0 2
NT 30 15 45
BM 14 18 32
DC 20 7 27
PGP 6 1 7
TOTAL 200 78 278

Isa. 13:10
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Isa. 24:23
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Isa. 26:1
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

Isa. 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Isa. 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Isa. 38:8
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

Isa. 41:25
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Isa. 45:2
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Isa. 45:6
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.

Isa. 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

Isa. 59:19
So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.

Isa. 60:19
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

Isa. 60:20
Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.