Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'south' occurs 193 times in the standard works.

64 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'south' in the standard works and contain 33.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 40:24-28 (6 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 20:46-47 (5 in 2 verses)

Josh. 15:1-4 (5 in 4 verses)

Hel. 6:9-12 (5 in 4 verses)

Num. 34:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 27:10 (3 in 1 verse)

Josh. 18:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 30:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 46:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 47:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 11:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 46:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 15:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 18:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 1:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 40:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 42:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 48:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Obad. 1:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 27:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 134 24 158
NT 9 0 9
BM 36 21 57
DC 12 2 14
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 193 47 240

Gen. 13:14
And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

Ex. 26:18
And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

Ex. 27:9
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:

Ex. 36:23
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:

Ex. 38:9
And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:

Ex. 40:24
And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.

Num. 3:29
The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.

Num. 13:17
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

Deut. 3:27
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Josh. 15:1
This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.

Josh. 15:2
And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:

Josh. 15:21
And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

Josh. 17:9
And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:

Josh. 17:10
Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.

Josh. 18:13
And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.

Josh. 18:14
And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

1 Sam. 14:5
The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.

1 Chr. 26:15
To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.

1 Chr. 26:17
Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.

Ezek. 47:19
And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.

Ezek. 48:28
And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.

Dan. 8:4
I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.

1 Ne. 16:13
And it came to pass that we traveled for the space of four days, nearly a south-southeast direction, and we did pitch our tents again; and we did call the name of the place Shazer.

Alma 17:1
And now it came to pass that as Alma was journeying from the land of Gideon southward, away to the land of Manti, behold, to his astonishment, he met with the sons of Mosiah journeying towards the land of Zarahemla.

Alma 22:31
And they came from there up into the south wilderness. Thus the land on the northward was called Desolation, and the land on the southward was called Bountiful, it being the wilderness which is filled with all manner of wild animals of every kind, a part of which had come from the land northward for food.

Alma 22:32
And now, it was only the distance of a day and a half's journey for a Nephite, on the line Bountiful and the land Desolation, from the east to the west sea; and thus the land of Nephi and the land of Zarahemla were nearly surrounded by water, there being a small neck of land between the land northward and the land southward.

Hel. 3:8
And it came to pass that they did multiply and spread, and did go forth from the land southward to the land northward, and did spread insomuch that they began to cover the face of the whole earth, from the sea south to the sea north, from the sea west to the sea east.

Hel. 4:8
And thus those dissenters of the Nephites, with the help of a numerous army of the Lamanites, had obtained all the possession of the Nephites which was in the land southward. And all this was done in the fifty and eighth and ninth years of the reign of the judges.

Hel. 5:16
And even from one city to another, until they had gone forth among all the people of Nephi who were in the land southward; and from thence into the land of Zarahemla, among the Lamanites.

Hel. 11:20
And thus it did come to pass that the people of Nephi began to prosper again in the land, and began to build up their waste places, and began to multiply and spread, even until they did cover the whole face of the land, both on the northward and on the southward, from the sea west to the sea east.

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. 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. 8:11
And there was a great and terrible destruction in the land southward.

Morm. 1:6
And it came to pass that I, being eleven years old, was carried by my father into the land southward, even to the land of Zarahemla.

Morm. 2:29
And the Lamanites did give unto us the land northward, yea, even to the narrow passage which led into the land southward. And we did give unto the Lamanites all the land southward.

Morm. 3:5
And it came to pass that I did cause my people that they should gather themselves together at the land Desolation, to a city which was in the borders, by the narrow pass which led into the land southward.

Morm. 8:2
And now it came to pass that after the great and tremendous battle at Cumorah, behold, the Nephites who had escaped into the country southward were hunted by the Lamanites, until they were all destroyed.

Ether 9:31
And there came forth poisonous serpents also upon the face of the land, and did poison many people. And it came to pass that their flocks began to flee before the poisonous serpents, towards the land southward, which was called by the Nephites Zarahemla.

Ether 9:32
And it came to pass that there were many of them which did perish by the way; nevertheless, there were some which fled into the land southward.

Ether 10:19
And it came to pass that Lib also did that which was good in the sight of the Lord. And in the days of Lib the poisonous serpents were destroyed. Wherefore they did go into the land southward, to hunt food for the people of the land, for the land was covered with animals of the forest. And Lib also himself became a great hunter.

Ether 10:21
And they did preserve the land southward for a wilderness, to get game. And the whole face of the land northward was covered with inhabitants.

Ether 15:10
And it came to pass that the armies of Coriantumr did press upon the armies of Shiz that they beat them, that they caused them to flee before them; and they did flee southward, and did pitch their tents in a place which was called Ogath.

D&C 87:3
For behold, the Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations, in order to defend themselves against other nations; and then war shall be poured out upon all nations.