Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'enemy' occurs 162 times in the standard works.

33 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'enemy' in the standard works and contain 20.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 15 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 98:25-31 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 101:51-54 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 98:39-40 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

Lam. 2:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 16:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 16:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 7:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 99 0 99
Ex. 4 0 4
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 2 0 2
Deut. 4 0 4
Judg. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 7 0 7
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 6 0 6
2 Chr. 3 0 3
Ezra 2 0 2
Esth. 6 0 6
Job 5 0 5
Ps. 26 0 26
Prov. 3 0 3
Isa. 2 0 2
Jer. 6 0 6
Lam. 11 0 11
Ezek. 1 0 1
Hosea 1 0 1
Micah 3 0 3
Nahum 1 0 1
Zeph. 1 0 1
NT 11 0 11
BM 20 0 20
DC 30 0 30
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 162 0 162

Lam. 1:5
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

Lam. 1:7
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

Lam. 1:9
Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

Lam. 1:16
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

Lam. 2:3
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

Lam. 2:4
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

Lam. 2:5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Lam. 2:7
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

Lam. 2:17
The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

Lam. 2:22
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Lam. 4:12
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.