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
Josh. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 8 0 8
1 Chr. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 3 0 3
Ezra 5 0 5
Eccl. 1 0 1
Ezek. 11 0 11
NT 7 3 10
BM 13 13 26
DC 20 0 20
PGP 1 1 2
TOTAL 71 17 88

1 Kgs. 3:1
And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

1 Kgs. 6:7
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

1 Kgs. 6:12
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:

1 Kgs. 6:38
And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

1 Kgs. 7:1
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

1 Kgs. 9:1
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

1 Kgs. 15:21
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.