Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'building' occurs 71 times in the standard works.

24 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'building' in the standard works and contain 33.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 10 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 41:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 11:35-36 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 8:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 6:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 3:14 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 42:35 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 6:38-7:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 16:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 42:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:62-63 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 30 0 30
NT 7 3 10
BM 13 13 26
1 Ne. 8 0 8
2 Ne. 0 2 2
Jarom 0 1 1
Mosiah 2 5 7
Alma 1 0 1
Hel. 2 1 3
3 Ne. 0 1 1
Morm. 0 1 1
Ether 0 2 2
DC 20 0 20
PGP 1 1 2
TOTAL 71 17 88

1 Ne. 8:26
And I also cast my eyes round about, and beheld, on the other side of the river of water, a great and spacious building; and it stood as it were in the air, high above the earth.

1 Ne. 8:31
And he also saw other multitudes feeling their way towards that great and spacious building.

1 Ne. 8:33
And great was the multitude that did enter into that strange building. And after they did enter into that building they did point the finger of scorn at me and those that were partaking of the fruit also; but we heeded them not.

1 Ne. 11:35
And the multitude of the earth was gathered together; and I beheld that they were in a large and spacious building, like unto the building which my father saw. And the angel of the Lord spake unto me again, saying: Behold the world and the wisdom thereof; yea, behold the house of Israel hath gathered together to fight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

1 Ne. 11:36
And it came to pass that I saw and bear record, that the great and spacious building was the pride of the world; and it fell, and the fall thereof was exceedingly great. And the angel of the Lord spake unto me again, saying: Thus shall be the destruction of all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, that shall fight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

1 Ne. 12:18
And the large and spacious building, which thy father saw, is vain imaginations and the pride of the children of men. And a great and a terrible gulf divideth them; yea, even the word of the justice of the Eternal God, and the Messiah who is the Lamb of God, of whom the Holy Ghost beareth record, from the beginning of the world until this time, and from this time henceforth and forever.

Mosiah 27:6
And there began to be much peace again in the land; and the people began to be very numerous, and began to scatter abroad upon the face of the earth, yea, on the north and on the south, on the east and on the west, building large cities and villages in all quarters of the land.

Mosiah 28:17
Now after Mosiah had finished translating these records, behold, it gave an account of the people who were destroyed, from the time that they were destroyed back to the building of the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people and they were scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth, yea, and even from that time back until the creation of Adam.

Alma 48:8
Yea, he had been strengthening the armies of the Nephites, and erecting small forts, or places of resort; throwing up banks of earth round about to enclose his armies, and also building walls of stone to encircle them about, round about their cities and the borders of their lands; yea, all round about the land.

Hel. 3:14
But behold, a hundredth part of the proceedings of this people, yea, the account of the Lamanites and of the Nephites, and their wars, and contentions, and dissensions, and their preaching, and their prophecies, and their shipping and their building of ships, and their building of temples, and of synagogues and their sanctuaries, and their righteousness, and their wickedness, and their murders, and their robbings, and their plundering, and all manner of abominations and whoredoms, cannot be contained in this work.