Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'twenty' occurs 372 times in the standard works.

159 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'twenty' in the standard works and contain 42.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 61 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Chr. 27:7-15 (9 in 9 verses)

3 Ne. 5:7-8 (6 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 48:8-13 (6 in 6 verses)

2 Chr. 2:10 (4 in 1 verse)

Ex. 27:10-11 (4 in 2 verses)

Ex. 38:10-11 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 48:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 50:23-25 (4 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:27-29 (4 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 45:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 6:20 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 45:12 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 32:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)


2 Chr. 3:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

 3:3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

 3:4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.




Alma 50:40-51:1 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:40-41 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 26:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 36:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 27:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 2:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 7:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 41:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 18:31 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 5:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 8:63 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 14:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 18:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 4:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 7:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 25:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 29:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Hag. 2:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 4:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 56:20 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:59 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 30:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 10:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 8:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 6:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 9:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 15:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 18:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 27:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 27:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 2:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 2:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 8:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:71-72 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 40:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 51:37-52:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 52:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 52:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 53:23-54:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 57:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 6:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 282 0 282
Gen. 11 0 11
Ex. 22 0 22
Lev. 4 0 4
Num. 31 0 31
Deut. 2 0 2
Josh. 2 0 2
Judg. 12 0 12
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 9 0 9
1 Kgs. 23 0 23
2 Kgs. 15 0 15
1 Chr. 31 0 31
2 Chr. 35 0 35
Ezra 19 0 19
Neh. 18 0 18
Esth. 3 0 3
Ps. 1 0 1
Jer. 2 0 2
Ezek. 35 0 35
Dan. 2 0 2
Hag. 2 0 2
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 12 0 12
BM 57 0 57
DC 9 0 9
PGP 12 0 12
TOTAL 372 0 372

2 Chr. 2:10
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

2 Chr. 3:3
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

2 Chr. 3:4
And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

2 Chr. 3:8
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

2 Chr. 3:11
And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

2 Chr. 3:13
The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.

2 Chr. 4:1
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

2 Chr. 5:12
Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

2 Chr. 7:5
And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

2 Chr. 8:1
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house,

2 Chr. 9:9
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

2 Chr. 11:21
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

2 Chr. 13:21
But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2 Chr. 20:31
And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

2 Chr. 25:1
Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2 Chr. 25:5
Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

2 Chr. 27:1
Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2 Chr. 27:8
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

2 Chr. 28:1
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father:

2 Chr. 28:6
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.

2 Chr. 29:1
Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Chr. 31:17
Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

2 Chr. 33:21
Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

2 Chr. 36:2
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

2 Chr. 36:5
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

2 Chr. 36:11
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.