Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'taken' occurs 542 times in the standard works.

126 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'taken' in the standard works and contain 23.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 53 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 13:26-29 (6 in 4 verses)

Alma 52:4-8 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 17:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

Josh. 7:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 16:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 40:36-37 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 9:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 36:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 10:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 12:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 52:39-40 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 17:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 30:54-56 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 55:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 24:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 21:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 24:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 57:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 38:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 22:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 8:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 54:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 58:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 2:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 27:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 4:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 14:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 30:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)


2 Sam. 12:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

 12:9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

 12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.




2 Kgs. 2:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 10:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Esth. 2:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 6:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 49:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 21:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 5:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 3:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 24:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 5:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

John 8:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

John 20:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 21:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 6:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 16:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 55:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 62:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 3:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 5:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 270 1 271
Gen. 22 0 22
Ex. 5 0 5
Lev. 7 0 7
Num. 19 0 19
Deut. 8 0 8
Josh. 8 0 8
Judg. 6 0 6
1 Sam. 21 0 21
2 Sam. 7 0 7
1 Kgs. 6 0 6
2 Kgs. 11 0 11
1 Chr. 2 0 2
2 Chr. 9 0 9
Ezra 7 0 7
Neh. 2 0 2
Esth. 3 0 3
Job 11 0 11
Ps. 9 1 10
Prov. 5 0 5
Eccl. 4 0 4
Isa. 24 0 24
Jer. 30 0 30
Lam. 2 0 2
Ezek. 24 0 24
Dan. 7 0 7
Hosea 1 0 1
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 5 0 5
Micah 2 0 2
Zeph. 1 0 1
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 68 2 70
BM 153 14 167
DC 35 2 37
PGP 16 0 16
TOTAL 542 19 561

2 Sam. 12:9
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2 Sam. 12:10
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

2 Sam. 12:27
And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.

2 Sam. 16:8
The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.

2 Sam. 18:9
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

2 Sam. 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.

2 Sam. 23:6
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: