Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'plague' occurs 100 times in the standard works.

72 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'plague' in the standard works and contain 72% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 32 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 13:44-14:3 (23 in 19 verses)

Lev. 13:2-13 (13 in 12 verses)

Lev. 14:34-40 (7 in 7 verses)

Lev. 13:27-32 (6 in 6 verses)


Num. 16:46-50 (5 in 5 verses)

 16:46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

 16:47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

 16:48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

 16:49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

 16:50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.




Lev. 13:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 16:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 25:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 25:18-26:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 106:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 94 18 112
Gen. 0 2 2
Ex. 3 2 5
Lev. 60 1 61
Num. 13 0 13
Deut. 2 4 6
Josh. 1 1 2
1 Sam. 1 1 2
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 2 0 2
1 Chr. 1 1 2
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Ps. 4 2 6
Jer. 0 3 3
Hosea 0 1 1
Zech. 4 0 4
NT 4 12 16
BM 0 0 0
DC 2 1 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 100 31 131

Num. 8:19
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

Num. 11:33
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

Num. 14:37
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

Num. 16:46
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

Num. 16:47
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

Num. 16:48
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

Num. 16:49
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

Num. 16:50
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.

Num. 25:8
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

Num. 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Num. 25:18
For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.

Num. 26:1
And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Num. 31:16
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.