Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'haste' occurs 75 times in the standard works.

10 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'haste' in the standard works and contain 13.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ps. 70:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 61:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 23:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 19:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:51-52 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 49 64 113
Gen. 5 5 10
Ex. 4 1 5
Deut. 2 3 5
Josh. 0 4 4
Judg. 2 1 3
1 Sam. 6 5 11
2 Sam. 1 2 3
1 Kgs. 0 2 2
2 Kgs. 1 1 2
2 Chr. 1 3 4
Ezra 1 0 1
Esth. 2 4 6
Job 1 5 6
Ps. 11 10 21
Prov. 2 6 8
Eccl. 0 2 2
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 4 4 8
Jer. 1 3 4
Dan. 3 1 4
Nahum 1 0 1
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 0 1 1
NT 6 13 19
BM 7 11 18
DC 13 23 36
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 75 112 187

Gen. 19:22
Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Gen. 24:46
And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

Gen. 43:30
And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

Gen. 45:9
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:

Gen. 45:13
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.

Ex. 10:16
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.

Ex. 12:11
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover.

Ex. 12:33
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

Ex. 34:8
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

Deut. 16:3
Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

Deut. 32:35
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Judg. 9:48
And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

Judg. 13:10
And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

1 Sam. 9:12
And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:

1 Sam. 20:38
And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

1 Sam. 21:8
And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

1 Sam. 23:26
And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

1 Sam. 23:27
But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.

1 Sam. 25:18
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

2 Sam. 4:4
And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

2 Kgs. 7:15
And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

2 Chr. 35:21
But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

Ezra 4:23
Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

Esth. 5:5
Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esth. 6:10
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

Job 20:2
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

Ps. 22:19
But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Ps. 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Ps. 38:22
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

Ps. 40:13
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.

Ps. 70:1
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.

Ps. 70:5
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.

Ps. 71:12
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

Ps. 116:11
I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Ps. 119:60
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

Ps. 141:1
Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

Prov. 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Prov. 28:20
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Song. 8:14
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Isa. 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Isa. 49:17
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

Isa. 52:12
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.

Isa. 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Jer. 9:18
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Dan. 2:25
Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.

Dan. 3:24
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.

Dan. 6:19
Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.

Nahum 2:5
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.