Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'die' occurs 398 times in the standard works.

128 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'die' in the standard works and contain 32.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 51 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 35:16-23 (9 in 8 verses)

Ezek. 3:18-20 (5 in 3 verses)

D&C 42:44-47 (5 in 4 verses)

2 Kgs. 7:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:49-51 (4 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 33:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Chr. 25:4 (3 in 1 verse)

Rom. 14:8 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 11:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 20:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 14:43-45 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 33:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 12:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 47:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 6:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Jonah 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 20:28 (2 in 1 verse)

John 8:24 (2 in 1 verse)

John 12:24 (2 in 1 verse)

John 21:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 5:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 10:26 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:86 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 5:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 3:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 14:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 30:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 10:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 4:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 2:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 12:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 22:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 34:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)


Jer. 38:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

 38:10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.




Jer. 42:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

John 11:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 15:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 28:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 4:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 273 249 522
Gen. 27 38 65
Ex. 21 9 30
Lev. 10 5 15
Num. 30 24 54
Deut. 25 7 32
Josh. 1 5 6
Judg. 5 15 20
Ruth 1 3 4
1 Sam. 14 10 24
2 Sam. 8 19 27
1 Kgs. 9 17 26
2 Kgs. 10 12 22
1 Chr. 0 23 23
2 Chr. 4 13 17
Ezra 0 1 1
Neh. 0 4 4
Esth. 0 1 1
Job 10 7 17
Ps. 7 3 10
Prov. 6 4 10
Eccl. 3 3 6
Isa. 9 7 16
Jer. 28 7 35
Ezek. 34 7 41
Dan. 0 2 2
Hosea 0 1 1
Amos 5 1 6
Jonah 3 0 3
Hab. 1 0 1
Zech. 2 1 3
NT 48 137 185
BM 42 170 212
DC 24 86 110
PGP 11 18 29
TOTAL 398 660 1058

Jer. 11:21
Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand:

Jer. 11:22
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

Jer. 16:4
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Jer. 16:6
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

Jer. 20:6
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

Jer. 21:6
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

Jer. 21:9
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

Jer. 22:12
But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

Jer. 22:26
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

Jer. 26:8
Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

Jer. 26:11
Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

Jer. 26:16
Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.

Jer. 27:13
Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Jer. 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the Lord.

Jer. 28:17
So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

Jer. 31:30
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Jer. 31:40
And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

Jer. 33:5
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

Jer. 34:4
Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the Lord of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

Jer. 34:5
But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the Lord.

Jer. 34:20
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

Jer. 37:20
Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

Jer. 38:2
Thus saith the Lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

Jer. 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

Jer. 38:10
Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

Jer. 38:24
Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

Jer. 38:26
Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

Jer. 41:9
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.

Jer. 42:16
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Jer. 42:17
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

Jer. 42:22
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

Jer. 44:12
And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

Jer. 52:34
And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.