Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'river' occurs 230 times in the standard works.

105 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'river' in the standard works and contain 45.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 39 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 7:15-8:3 (14 in 14 verses)

Ezek. 47:5-9 (5 in 5 verses)

Josh. 12:1-2 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:6-7 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 41:1-3 (4 in 3 verses)

Dan. 12:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 43:51-53 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 2:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 15:18 (3 in 1 verse)

Josh. 17:9 (3 in 1 verse)

Judg. 5:21 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 2:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 2:36-37 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:34-35 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 3:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 2:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 6:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 43:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 1:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 11:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 4:24 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 24:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 5:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 43:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 41:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 4:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 4:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 8:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 22:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 173 76 249
Gen. 15 0 15
Ex. 24 2 26
Lev. 0 2 2
Num. 3 0 3
Deut. 13 1 14
Josh. 18 0 18
Judg. 5 0 5
2 Sam. 4 0 4
1 Kgs. 5 1 6
2 Kgs. 6 2 8
1 Chr. 5 0 5
2 Chr. 2 0 2
Ezra 18 0 18
Neh. 3 0 3
Job 1 4 5
Ps. 6 8 14
Prov. 0 2 2
Eccl. 0 2 2
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 9 17 26
Jer. 5 3 8
Lam. 1 1 2
Ezek. 18 20 38
Dan. 8 0 8
Joel 0 2 2
Amos 1 0 1
Micah 1 1 2
Nahum 0 3 3
Hab. 0 3 3
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 2 0 2
NT 6 3 9
BM 44 3 47
DC 2 2 4
PGP 5 2 7
TOTAL 230 86 316

Ezek. 1:1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Ezek. 1:3
The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.

Ezek. 3:15
Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

Ezek. 3:23
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

Ezek. 6:3
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezek. 10:15
And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

Ezek. 10:20
This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.

Ezek. 10:22
And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.

Ezek. 29:3
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Ezek. 29:4
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

Ezek. 29:5
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

Ezek. 29:9
And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

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. 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. 31:4
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

Ezek. 31:12
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ezek. 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Ezek. 32:6
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

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

Ezek. 34:13
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

Ezek. 35:8
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.

Ezek. 36:4
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

Ezek. 36:6
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:

Ezek. 43:3
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

Ezek. 47:5
Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.

Ezek. 47:6
And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.

Ezek. 47:7
Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Ezek. 47:9
And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

Ezek. 47:12
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

Ezek. 47:19
And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.

Ezek. 48:28
And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.