Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'jesse' occurs 55 times in the standard works.

27 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'jesse' in the standard works and contain 49.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 16:5-11 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 113:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 16:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 22:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Ruth 4:22 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 20:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 42 0 42
NT 5 0 5
Matt. 2 0 2
Luke 1 0 1
Acts 1 0 1
Rom. 1 0 1
BM 2 0 2
DC 6 0 6
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 55 0 55

Matt. 1:5
And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;

Matt. 1:6
And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;