Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'toward' occurs 354 times in the standard works.

136 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'toward' in the standard works and contain 38.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 48 minutes to read the entire list.

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Deut. 28:54-57 (8 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 40:20-27 (8 in 8 verses)

Ezek. 48:10-17 (8 in 8 verses)

Zech. 14:4-8 (6 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 42:10-15 (6 in 6 verses)

Ezek. 41:11-14 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:25 (4 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 4:4 (4 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 8:29-30 (4 in 2 verses)

Dan. 8:8-9 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 8:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 40:44-46 (4 in 3 verses)

Josh. 15:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Chr. 6:38 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 3:12 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 17:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Acts 24:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 121:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:42-44 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 8:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 19:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 48:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 8:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 19:27 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 12:15 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 24:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 11:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 66:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 20:46 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 21:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 41:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 42:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 48:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 2:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 20:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Philem. 1:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 9:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 10:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 18:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 6:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 29:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 40:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 289 0 289
Gen. 19 0 19
Ex. 13 0 13
Lev. 2 0 2
Num. 9 0 9
Deut. 10 0 10
Josh. 22 0 22
Judg. 10 0 10
1 Sam. 5 0 5
2 Sam. 4 0 4
1 Kgs. 18 0 18
2 Kgs. 2 0 2
1 Chr. 4 0 4
2 Chr. 17 0 17
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 2 0 2
Esth. 2 0 2
Job 3 0 3
Ps. 11 0 11
Prov. 2 0 2
Eccl. 3 0 3
Song. 2 0 2
Isa. 9 0 9
Jer. 12 0 12
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 80 0 80
Dan. 12 0 12
Hosea 2 0 2
Joel 2 0 2
Jonah 1 0 1
Zech. 9 0 9
NT 57 1 58
BM 2 101 103
DC 4 7 11
PGP 2 3 5
TOTAL 354 112 466

Gen. 2:14
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Gen. 12:9
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

Gen. 13:12
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Gen. 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Gen. 18:2
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

Gen. 18:16
And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

Gen. 18:22
And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

Gen. 19:1
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

Gen. 19:28
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Gen. 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

Gen. 25:18
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

Gen. 28:10
And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

Gen. 30:40
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

Gen. 31:2
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Gen. 31:5
And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

Gen. 31:21
So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

Gen. 48:13
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.