Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'beth' occurs 225 times in the standard works.

112 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'beth' in the standard works and contain 49.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 44 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 6:12-15 (5 in 4 verses)

Judg. 1:33 (4 in 1 verse)

Josh. 18:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:32-13:1 (4 in 3 verses)

Josh. 18:19-22 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 4:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)


2 Kgs. 2:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

 2:2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Beth-el. And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el.

 2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.




Jer. 48:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Amos 5:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 35:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 16:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 7:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 17:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 6:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 23:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 11:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 13:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 32:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 7:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 19:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 19:38 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 19:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 21:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 1:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 2:51 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 4:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 8:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 35:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 10:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:58-59 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 19:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 19:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 1:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ruth 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 7:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 11:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 10:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 225 25 250
Gen. 15 9 24
Num. 3 0 3
Deut. 3 0 3
Josh. 49 3 52
Judg. 23 0 23
Ruth 7 0 7
1 Sam. 27 0 27
2 Sam. 10 0 10
1 Kgs. 17 5 22
2 Kgs. 13 0 13
1 Chr. 17 1 18
2 Chr. 9 1 10
Ezra 2 1 3
Neh. 7 2 9
Esth. 0 1 1
Prov. 0 1 1
Song. 0 1 1
Jer. 7 0 7
Ezek. 1 0 1
Hosea 6 0 6
Amos 7 0 7
Micah 2 0 2
NT 0 43 43
BM 0 1 1
DC 0 1 1
PGP 0 3 3
TOTAL 225 73 298

2 Kgs. 2:2
And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the Lord hath sent me to Beth-el. And Elisha said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el.

2 Kgs. 2:3
And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

2 Kgs. 2:23
And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

2 Kgs. 10:29
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan.

2 Kgs. 14:11
But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

2 Kgs. 14:13
And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

2 Kgs. 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.

2 Kgs. 17:28
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

2 Kgs. 23:4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

2 Kgs. 23:15
Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

2 Kgs. 23:17
Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.

2 Kgs. 23:19
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.