Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'stone' occurs 214 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 'stone' in the standard works and contain 29.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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JS-H 1:51-52 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 28:22-29:3 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 28:16 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 28:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:49-50 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 9:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

John 10:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Pet. 2:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 20:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 34:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 6:18 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 12:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 118:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Hag. 2:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 3:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 2:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 21:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 24:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 6:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 22:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 2:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 16:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 20:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

John 11:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 130:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 140 196 336
Gen. 12 4 16
Ex. 19 23 42
Lev. 6 9 15
Num. 4 4 8
Deut. 16 14 30
Josh. 5 19 24
Judg. 2 2 4
1 Sam. 11 1 12
2 Sam. 2 5 7
1 Kgs. 6 28 34
2 Kgs. 5 3 8
1 Chr. 2 9 11
2 Chr. 2 14 16
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 2 1 3
Job 4 12 16
Ps. 3 6 9
Prov. 5 0 5
Eccl. 0 3 3
Isa. 5 15 20
Jer. 4 4 8
Lam. 2 2 4
Ezek. 8 10 18
Dan. 6 1 7
Amos 1 0 1
Micah 0 1 1
Hab. 2 0 2
Hag. 2 0 2
Zech. 4 4 8
NT 52 43 95
BM 9 63 72
DC 6 9 15
PGP 7 6 13
TOTAL 214 317 531

Ex. 4:25
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

Ex. 7:19
And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.

Ex. 8:26
And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

Ex. 15:5
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

Ex. 15:16
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.

Ex. 17:4
And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

Ex. 17:12
But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Ex. 19:13
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

Ex. 20:25
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

Ex. 21:18
And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

Ex. 21:28
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

Ex. 21:29
But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

Ex. 21:32
If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

Ex. 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

Ex. 24:12
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Ex. 25:7
Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

Ex. 28:9
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

Ex. 28:10
Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

Ex. 28:11
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

Ex. 28:12
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

Ex. 28:17
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

Ex. 28:21
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

Ex. 31:5
And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

Ex. 31:18
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Ex. 34:1
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

Ex. 34:4
And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

Ex. 35:9
And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

Ex. 35:27
And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;

Ex. 35:33
And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.

Ex. 39:6
And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.

Ex. 39:7
And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Ex. 39:10
And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.

Ex. 39:14
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.