Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ordained' occurs 156 times in the standard works.

50 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ordained' in the standard works and contain 32.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 21 minutes to read the entire list.

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JS-H 1:71-72 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 13:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 13:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:46-48 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:50-52 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 20:60 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 42:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 43:7 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 49:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 52:38 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 63:45 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 77:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 12:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 8:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:64-65 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 49:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 68:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 72:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 78:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 16 0 16
Num. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 3 0 3
Esth. 1 0 1
Ps. 4 0 4
Isa. 1 0 1
Jer. 1 0 1
Dan. 1 0 1
Hab. 1 0 1
NT 19 1 20
BM 19 0 19
DC 96 0 96
PGP 6 0 6
TOTAL 156 1 157

Num. 28:6
It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.

1 Kgs. 12:32
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.

1 Kgs. 12:33
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

2 Kgs. 23:5
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

2 Chr. 11:15
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

2 Chr. 23:18
Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the Lord by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

2 Chr. 29:27
And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.

Esth. 9:27
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

Ps. 8:2
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Ps. 8:3
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Ps. 81:5
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

Ps. 132:17
There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

Isa. 30:33
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Jer. 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Dan. 2:24
Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.

Hab. 1:12
Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.