Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ancient' occurs 52 times in the standard works.

6 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ancient' in the standard works and contain 11.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Ne. 29:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 26 10 36
Deut. 1 0 1
Judg. 1 0 1
1 Sam. 0 1 1
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 1 0 1
Ezra 1 0 1
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 1 1 2
Prov. 1 0 1
Isa. 11 2 13
Jer. 2 2 4
Ezek. 2 4 6
Dan. 3 0 3
NT 0 0 0
BM 12 3 15
DC 12 2 14
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 52 15 67

Isa. 3:2
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

Isa. 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Isa. 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isa. 9:15
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Isa. 19:11
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Isa. 23:7
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

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. 37:26
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Isa. 44:7
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.

Isa. 45:21
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

Isa. 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Isa. 47:6
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Isa. 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?