Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sound' occurs 132 times in the standard works.

29 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sound' in the standard works and contain 22% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 12 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 88:102-110 (9 in 9 verses)

Lev. 25:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 48:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 9:9 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 11:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:94 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 1:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 33:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 14:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Titus 2:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:99-100 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 63 17 80
Ex. 1 2 3
Lev. 3 0 3
Num. 1 0 1
Josh. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 0 1 1
2 Sam. 3 0 3
1 Kgs. 4 0 4
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 5 1 6
2 Chr. 1 6 7
Neh. 1 1 2
Job 4 0 4
Ps. 7 3 10
Prov. 4 0 4
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 1 2 3
Jer. 10 0 10
Ezek. 7 1 8
Dan. 4 0 4
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 2 0 2
NT 26 14 40
BM 10 0 10
DC 32 4 36
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 132 35 167

Ex. 19:13
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

Ex. 19:19
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

1 Sam. 20:12
And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;

1 Chr. 15:16
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

2 Chr. 5:12
Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

2 Chr. 7:6
And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the Lord, which David the king had made to praise the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

2 Chr. 13:12
And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

2 Chr. 13:14
And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

2 Chr. 23:13
And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

2 Chr. 29:28
And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

Neh. 4:18
For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

Ps. 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Ps. 38:7
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Ps. 150:5
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

Isa. 1:6
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

Isa. 63:15
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

Ezek. 7:7
The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.