Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'make' occurs 1313 times in the standard works.

436 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'make' in the standard works and contain 33.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 183 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 25:17-29 (13 in 13 verses)

Ex. 25:39-26:11 (13 in 13 verses)

Ex. 26:36-27:9 (12 in 11 verses)

Ex. 28:36-42 (7 in 7 verses)

Ex. 28:39-29:2 (7 in 7 verses)

1 Ne. 17:9-12 (6 in 4 verses)

Ex. 28:11-15 (6 in 5 verses)

Ex. 30:1-5 (6 in 5 verses)

Lev. 16:30-34 (6 in 5 verses)

1 Ne. 1:16-20 (6 in 5 verses)

Gen. 6:14-16 (5 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 1:1-3 (5 in 3 verses)

Ex. 22:11-15 (5 in 5 verses)

Ex. 28:2-6 (5 in 5 verses)

Isa. 17:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

Ex. 20:23-25 (4 in 3 verses)

Dan. 5:15-17 (4 in 3 verses)

Ex. 25:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 30:35-38 (4 in 4 verses)

Lev. 14:18-21 (4 in 4 verses)

Deut. 20:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 30:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 9:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 5:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

JS-H 1:22-25 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 20:19 (3 in 1 verse)

Num. 5:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 42:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 30:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 46:27-28 (3 in 2 verses)

Nahum 3:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 23:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 3:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Morm. 2:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 26:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 34:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 36:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 5:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 16:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 98:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 13:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 26:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Rom. 9:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 4:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 10:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 12:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 17:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 17:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 18:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 47:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 48:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 30:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 9:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 11:43 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 21:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 10:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 15:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 15:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 31:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 6:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 28:15 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 1:47 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 17:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 12:38 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 11:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 11:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 24:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 21:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 70:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 70:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 6:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 27:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 41:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 9:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 26:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 21:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 9:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 2:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Micah 4:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Hab. 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 12:33 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 8:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 8:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 3:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 13:40 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 16:10 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 63:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 11:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 5:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 22:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 23:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 26:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 26:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 28:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 28:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 30:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 12:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 9:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 11:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 3:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 13:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 18:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 17:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 6:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 8:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 5:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 8:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 41:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 45:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 66:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 95:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 1:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 36:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 38:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 50:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 51:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 62:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 19:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 23:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 49:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 49:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 50:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 51:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 7:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 25:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)


Ezek. 32:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

 32:7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

 32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.




Ezek. 32:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 34:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 2:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 4:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 1:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 9:17-10:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 12:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 5:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 11:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 12:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 14:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 8:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 30:18-31:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 52:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 56:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 7:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 65:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 67:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:51-52 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:68-69 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 3:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 909 145 1054
Gen. 47 0 47
Ex. 140 1 141
Lev. 65 3 68
Num. 37 0 37
Deut. 39 7 46
Josh. 14 0 14
Judg. 5 1 6
Ruth 2 0 2
1 Sam. 24 3 27
2 Sam. 14 2 16
1 Kgs. 21 0 21
2 Kgs. 14 0 14
1 Chr. 13 0 13
2 Chr. 20 0 20
Ezra 8 0 8
Neh. 7 0 7
Esth. 7 0 7
Job 33 19 52
Ps. 69 30 99
Prov. 13 21 34
Eccl. 3 5 8
Song. 2 1 3
Isa. 85 25 110
Jer. 73 11 84
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 70 2 72
Dan. 28 5 33
Hosea 11 1 12
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 4 3 7
Micah 11 0 11
Nahum 9 1 10
Hab. 5 4 9
Zeph. 4 0 4
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 7 0 7
Mal. 2 0 2
NT 146 30 176
BM 176 15 191
DC 63 12 75
PGP 19 1 20
TOTAL 1313 203 1516

Ezek. 3:26
And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

Ezek. 4:9
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

Ezek. 5:14
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

Ezek. 6:14
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 7:14
They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

Ezek. 7:23
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Ezek. 7:24
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

Ezek. 11:13
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

Ezek. 12:23
Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.

Ezek. 13:18
And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?

Ezek. 13:20
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

Ezek. 14:8
And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 15:8
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 16:31
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

Ezek. 16:42
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

Ezek. 17:17
Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:

Ezek. 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Ezek. 20:17
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

Ezek. 20:26
And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 20:31
For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

Ezek. 21:10
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

Ezek. 22:3
Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

Ezek. 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

Ezek. 23:27
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

Ezek. 24:5
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

Ezek. 24:9
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

Ezek. 24:17
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

Ezek. 25:4
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

Ezek. 25:5
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 25:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

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. 26:8
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.

Ezek. 26:12
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

Ezek. 26:14
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 26:19
For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

Ezek. 26:21
I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 27:5
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

Ezek. 27:31
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

Ezek. 29:10
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

Ezek. 29:12
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Ezek. 30:9
In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.

Ezek. 30:10
Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

Ezek. 30:12
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.

Ezek. 30:14
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

Ezek. 30:21
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

Ezek. 32:7
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Ezek. 32:8
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 32:10
Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

Ezek. 32:14
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 32:15
When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 34:25
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Ezek. 34:26
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

Ezek. 34:28
And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.

Ezek. 35:3
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

Ezek. 35:7
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

Ezek. 35:9
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye 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. 35:14
Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

Ezek. 37:19
Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

Ezek. 37:22
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

Ezek. 37:26
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

Ezek. 39:7
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

Ezek. 42:20
He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

Ezek. 43:18
And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

Ezek. 43:27
And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 44:14
But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

Ezek. 45:15
And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 45:17
And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.