Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wood' occurs 151 times in the standard works.

34 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wood' in the standard works and contain 22.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 14 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 22:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:33 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 11:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 19:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 18:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 29:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 41:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 18:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 26:37-27:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 1:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 14:51-52 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 14:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 23:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 23:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 26:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 135 8 143
NT 5 2 7
BM 10 0 10
DC 0 7 7
PGP 1 2 3
TOTAL 151 19 170

Deut. 29:18
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

Prov. 5:4
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

Jer. 9:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Jer. 23:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

Lam. 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

Lam. 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Ezek. 34:25
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Amos 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Rev. 8:11
And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

D&C 118:6
Let my servant John Taylor, and also my servant John E. Page, and also my servant Wilford Woodruff, and also my servant Willard Richards, be appointed to fill the places of those who have fallen, and be officially notified of their appointment.

D&C 124:81
Let my servant Henry G. Sherwood pay stock into that house, as seemeth him good, for himself and his seed after him, from generation to generation.

D&C 124:129
They are Heber C. Kimball, Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, Orson Hyde, William Smith, John Taylor, John E. Page, Wilford Woodruff, Willard Richards, George A. Smith;

D&C 124:132
Namely, Samuel Bent, Henry G. Sherwood, George W. Harris, Charles C. Rich, Thomas Grover, Newel Knight, David Dort, Dunbar Wilson-- Seymour Brunson I have taken unto myself; no man taketh his priesthood, but another may be appointed unto the same priesthood in his stead; and verily I say unto you, let my servant Aaron Johnson be ordained unto this calling in his stead-- David Fullmer, Alpheus Cutler, William Huntington.

D&C 128:23
Let the mountains shout for joy, and all ye valleys cry aloud; and all ye seas and dry lands tell the wonders of your Eternal King! And ye rivers, and brooks, and rills, flow down with gladness. Let the woods and all the trees of the field praise the Lord; and ye solid rocks weep for joy! And let the sun, moon, and the morning stars sing together, and let all the sons of God shout for joy! And let the eternal creations declare his name forever and ever! And again I say, how glorious is the voice we hear from heaven, proclaiming in our ears, glory, and salvation, and honor, and immortality, and eternal life; kingdoms, principalities, and powers!

D&C 136:13
And let my servants Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff organize a company.

D&C 138:53
The Prophet Joseph Smith, and my father, Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and other choice spirits who were reserved to come forth in the fulness of times to take part in laying the foundations of the great latter-day work,

JS-H 1:14
So, in accordance with this, my determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet made the attempt to pray vocally.

JS-H 1:68
We still continued the work of translation, when, in the ensuing month (May, 1829), we on a certain day went into the woods to pray and inquire of the Lord respecting baptism for the remission of sins, that we found mentioned in the translation of the plates. While we were thus employed, praying and calling upon the Lord, a messenger from heaven descended in a cloud of light, and having laid his hands upon us, he ordained us, saying: