Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'north' occurs 179 times in the standard works.

43 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'north' in the standard works and contain 24% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 20 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 6:9-12 (5 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 42:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 1:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 8:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 40:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 47:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Dan. 11:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Zech. 6:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 18:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 46:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 50:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 15:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 17:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 18:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 48:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 129 26 155
NT 3 0 3
BM 37 47 84
1 Ne. 1 0 1
2 Ne. 3 0 3
Omni 0 1 1
Mosiah 5 0 5
Alma 11 26 37
Hel. 9 10 19
3 Ne. 4 5 9
Morm. 1 2 3
Ether 3 3 6
DC 9 2 11
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 179 75 254

3 Ne. 1:17
And they began to know that the Son of God must shortly appear; yea, in fine, all the people upon the face of the whole earth from the west to the east, both in the land north and in the land south, were so exceedingly astonished that they fell to the earth.

3 Ne. 3:24
And there were a great many thousand people who were called Nephites, who did gather themselves together in this land. Now Lachoneus did cause that they should gather themselves together in the land southward, because of the great curse which was upon the land northward.

3 Ne. 4:1
And it came to pass that in the latter end of the eighteenth year those armies of robbers had prepared for battle, and began to come down and to sally forth from the hills, and out of the mountains, and the wilderness, and their strongholds, and their secret places, and began to take possession of the lands, both which were in the land south and which were in the land north, and began to take possession of all the lands which had been deserted by the Nephites, and the cities which had been left desolate.

3 Ne. 4:23
And it came to pass that Zemnarihah did give command unto his people that they should withdraw themselves from the siege, and march into the furthermost parts of the land northward.

3 Ne. 6:2
And it came to pass that they had not eaten up all their provisions; therefore they did take with them all that they had not devoured, of all their grain of every kind, and their gold, and their silver, and all their precious things, and they did return to their own lands and their possessions, both on the north and on the south, both on the land northward and on the land southward.

3 Ne. 7:12
Therefore, Jacob seeing that their enemies were more numerous than they, he being the king of the band, therefore he commanded his people that they should take their flight into the northernmost part of the land, and there build up unto themselves a kingdom, until they were joined by dissenters, (for he flattered them that there would be many dissenters) and they become sufficiently strong to contend with the tribes of the people; and they did so.

3 Ne. 8:12
But behold, there was a more great and terrible destruction in the land northward; for behold, the whole face of the land was changed, because of the tempest and the whirlwinds, and the thunderings and the lightnings, and the exceedingly great quaking of the whole earth;

3 Ne. 20:13
And then shall the remnants, which shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth, be gathered in from the east and from the west, and from the south and from the north; and they shall be brought to the knowledge of the Lord their God, who hath redeemed them.