Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'foundation' occurs 127 times in the standard works.

26 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'foundation' in the standard works and contain 20.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 12 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 5:12 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezra 3:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 3:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 4:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 28:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 7:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 6:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 4:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 50:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 4:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 18:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 31 28 59
Ex. 1 0 1
Deut. 0 1 1
Josh. 1 0 1
2 Sam. 0 2 2
1 Kgs. 5 0 5
2 Chr. 3 0 3
Ezra 5 2 7
Job 2 2 4
Ps. 3 5 8
Prov. 1 1 2
Isa. 4 7 11
Jer. 0 3 3
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 1 2 3
Micah 0 2 2
Hab. 1 0 1
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 3 0 3
NT 23 4 27
BM 37 5 42
DC 30 3 33
PGP 6 0 6
TOTAL 127 40 167

1 Kgs. 5:17
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

1 Kgs. 6:37
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Lord laid, in the month Zif:

1 Kgs. 7:9
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

1 Kgs. 7:10
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

1 Kgs. 16:34
In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.