Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'escape' occurs 79 times in the standard works.

19 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'escape' in the standard works and contain 24.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 19:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 104:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 27:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 44:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 50:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 6:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 51 54 105
NT 8 10 18
BM 6 5 11
2 Ne. 2 2 4
Alma 2 1 3
3 Ne. 1 0 1
Morm. 1 2 3
DC 14 1 15
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 79 70 149

2 Ne. 4:33
O Lord, wilt thou encircle me around in the robe of thy righteousness! O Lord, wilt thou make a way for mine escape before mine enemies! Wilt thou make my path straight before me! Wilt thou not place a stumbling block in my way-- but that thou wouldst clear my way before me, and hedge not up my way, but the ways of mine enemy.

2 Ne. 9:10
O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth a way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; yea, that monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and also the death of the spirit.

Alma 47:32
And now it came to pass that the queen, when she had heard that the king was slain-- for Amalickiah had sent an embassy to the queen informing her that the king had been slain by his servants, that he had pursued them with his army, but it was in vain, and they had made their escape--

Alma 56:40
Now they durst not turn to the right nor to the left lest they should be surrounded; neither would I turn to the right nor to the left lest they should overtake me, and we could not stand against them, but be slain, and they would make their escape; and thus we did flee all that day into the wilderness, even until it was dark.

3 Ne. 5:4
And now it came to pass that when they had taken all the robbers prisoners, insomuch that none did escape who were not slain, they did cast their prisoners into prison, and did cause the word of God to be preached unto them; and as many as would repent of their sins and enter into a covenant that they would murder no more were set at liberty.

Morm. 5:7
And it came to pass that we did again take to flight, and those whose flight was swifter than the Lamanites' did escape, and those whose flight did not exceed the Lamanites' were swept down and destroyed.