Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'rotten' occurs 5 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'rotten' in the standard works and contain 40% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 38:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

 38:11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

 38:12 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.




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Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 5 5 10
NT 0 0 0
BM 0 1 1
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 5 6 11

Job 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Job 41:27
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

Prov. 12:4
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Prov. 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Isa. 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Jer. 38:11
So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

Jer. 38:12
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

Hosea 5:12
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

Joel 1:17
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

Hab. 3:16
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

2 Ne. 15:24
Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, their root shall be rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.