Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'places' occurs 286 times in the standard works.

60 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'places' in the standard works and contain 21% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Kgs. 23:5-9 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

Neh. 4:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 33:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 22:43 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 12:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 14:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 15:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 15:35 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 17:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 10:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 8:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:46 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:36 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 45:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 4:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 34:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 46:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 8:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 75:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 198 5 203
Gen. 2 0 2
Ex. 8 0 8
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 3 0 3
Deut. 4 0 4
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 4 0 4
1 Sam. 4 0 4
2 Sam. 5 0 5
1 Kgs. 12 0 12
2 Kgs. 27 0 27
1 Chr. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 17 0 17
Neh. 4 0 4
Job 5 0 5
Ps. 18 0 18
Prov. 4 0 4
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 17 0 17
Jer. 27 2 29
Lam. 3 0 3
Ezek. 18 2 20
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 2 0 2
Amos 3 0 3
Micah 3 0 3
Hab. 1 1 2
Zech. 1 0 1
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 17 1 18
BM 35 0 35
DC 32 0 32
PGP 4 0 4
TOTAL 286 6 292

2 Chr. 8:11
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the Lord hath come.

2 Chr. 11:15
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

2 Chr. 14:3
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

2 Chr. 14:5
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

2 Chr. 15:17
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2 Chr. 17:6
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

2 Chr. 20:33
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

2 Chr. 21:11
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

2 Chr. 28:4
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Chr. 28:25
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.

2 Chr. 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

2 Chr. 32:12
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

2 Chr. 33:3
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

2 Chr. 33:17
Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only.

2 Chr. 33:19
His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

2 Chr. 34:3
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.