Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'tower' occurs 83 times in the standard works.

41 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'tower' in the standard works and contain 49.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 17 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 9:46-52 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 101:45-48 (5 in 4 verses)

Hel. 7:10-14 (5 in 5 verses)

Neh. 12:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 11:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:53-54 (3 in 2 verses)

Neh. 3:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 3:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 7:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 6:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 11:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 19:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 44 19 63
Gen. 3 0 3
Judg. 9 0 9
2 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 4 0 4
2 Chr. 1 6 7
Neh. 9 0 9
Ps. 3 1 4
Prov. 1 0 1
Song. 3 1 4
Isa. 2 6 8
Jer. 2 0 2
Ezek. 2 3 5
Micah 1 0 1
Hab. 1 0 1
Zeph. 0 2 2
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 4 0 4
BM 24 4 28
DC 11 2 13
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 83 25 108

2 Chr. 14:7
Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

2 Chr. 26:9
Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

2 Chr. 26:10
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

2 Chr. 26:15
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

2 Chr. 27:4
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

2 Chr. 32:5
Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.

Ps. 48:12
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Song. 8:10
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

Isa. 21:5
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

Isa. 21:8
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

Isa. 23:13
Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

Isa. 30:25
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isa. 32:14
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Isa. 33:18
Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

Ezek. 26:4
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

Ezek. 26:9
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

Ezek. 27:11
The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

Zeph. 1:16
A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

Zeph. 3:6
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.