Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'burned' occurs 124 times in the standard works.

22 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'burned' in the standard works and contain 17.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 5:23-24 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 9:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)


2 Kgs. 23:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.




Jer. 36:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 52:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 6:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 15:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 85 0 85
Ex. 1 0 1
Lev. 2 0 2
Deut. 2 0 2
Josh. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 3 0 3
2 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 12 0 12
1 Chr. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 3 0 3
Neh. 3 0 3
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 5 0 5
Prov. 2 0 2
Isa. 8 0 8
Jer. 25 0 25
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 4 0 4
Hosea 2 0 2
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 1 0 1
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 1 0 1
NT 13 0 13
BM 20 0 20
DC 6 0 6
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 124 0 124

2 Kgs. 10:26
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.

2 Kgs. 15:35
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the Lord.

2 Kgs. 22:17
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

2 Kgs. 23:4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

2 Kgs. 23:5
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

2 Kgs. 23:6
And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

2 Kgs. 23:8
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

2 Kgs. 23:11
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

2 Kgs. 23:15
Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

2 Kgs. 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

2 Kgs. 23:20
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.