Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'judge' occurs 331 times in the standard works.

138 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'judge' in the standard works and contain 41.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 55 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moro. 7:14-18 (7 in 5 verses)

1 Cor. 5:12-6:5 (7 in 7 verses)

Alma 11:1-3 (5 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 29:28-29 (4 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:41-44 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 64:37-40 (4 in 4 verses)

Judg. 2:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:57-58 (3 in 2 verses)

John 8:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

John 12:47-48 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 14:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:29-30 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 14:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 50:37-39 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 9:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 9:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:72-74 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:74-76 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 18:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 11:27 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 2:25 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 24:15 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 3:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 7:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 96:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 98:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 5:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 20:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 22:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

John 7:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 14:13 (2 in 1 verse)

James 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 4:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 7:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 25:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 8:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 11:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 11:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 7:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 21:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 14:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 14:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 27:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 51:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 9:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 14:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 58:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:81-82 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 124 89 213
Gen. 7 1 8
Ex. 6 7 13
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 1 1 2
Deut. 7 7 14
Josh. 0 3 3
Judg. 5 16 21
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 10 7 17
2 Sam. 1 1 2
1 Kgs. 4 1 5
2 Kgs. 0 2 2
1 Chr. 1 4 5
2 Chr. 5 3 8
Ezra 1 2 3
Job 4 5 9
Ps. 27 10 37
Prov. 1 2 3
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 10 2 12
Jer. 2 2 4
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 21 5 26
Dan. 0 4 4
Hosea 0 2 2
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 1 0 1
Obad. 1 0 1
Micah 4 0 4
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 67 51 118
BM 114 198 312
DC 23 14 37
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 331 353 684

Gen. 30:6
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Ex. 18:26
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Ex. 21:6
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

Ex. 21:22
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Ex. 22:8
If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

Ex. 22:9
For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

Num. 25:5
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.

Deut. 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

Deut. 16:18
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Deut. 19:17
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

Deut. 19:18
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

Deut. 21:2
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

Deut. 25:1
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

Deut. 32:31
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

Josh. 8:33
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

Josh. 23:2
And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:

Josh. 24:1
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

Judg. 2:16
Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

Judg. 2:17
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.

Judg. 2:18
And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

Judg. 3:10
And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the Lord delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.

Judg. 4:4
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

Judg. 10:2
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

Judg. 10:3
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.

Judg. 12:7
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Judg. 12:8
And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

Judg. 12:9
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

Judg. 12:11
And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.

Judg. 12:13
And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.

Judg. 12:14
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

Judg. 15:20
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Judg. 16:31
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

Ruth 1:1
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

1 Sam. 4:18
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

1 Sam. 7:6
And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

1 Sam. 7:15
And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

1 Sam. 7:16
And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

1 Sam. 7:17
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the Lord.

1 Sam. 8:1
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

1 Sam. 8:2
Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.

2 Sam. 7:11
And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house.

1 Kgs. 3:28
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

2 Kgs. 23:22
Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

1 Chr. 17:6
Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?

1 Chr. 17:10
And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the Lord will build thee an house.

1 Chr. 23:4
Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and judges:

1 Chr. 26:29
Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

2 Chr. 1:2
Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

2 Chr. 19:5
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

2 Chr. 19:6
And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment.

Ezra 7:25
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.

Ezra 10:14
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Job 12:17
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

Job 21:22
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Job 31:11
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Job 36:31
For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

Ps. 2:10
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

Ps. 7:11
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Ps. 9:19
Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

Ps. 37:33
The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Ps. 51:4
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Ps. 58:11
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Ps. 82:1
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

Ps. 109:7
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Ps. 141:6
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

Ps. 148:11
Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:

Prov. 8:16
By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

Prov. 29:14
The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

Isa. 1:26
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

Isa. 40:23
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Jer. 11:20
But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Jer. 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.

Ezek. 16:38
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

Ezek. 16:52
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

Ezek. 28:23
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 35:11
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

Ezek. 36:19
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

Dan. 3:2
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Dan. 3:3
Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Dan. 9:12
And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

Hosea 7:7
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

Hosea 13:10
I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

Zeph. 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.