Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'pit' occurs 98 times in the standard works.

30 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'pit' in the standard works and contain 30.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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Rev. 9:1-2 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 37:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 21:33-34 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 24:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 48:43-44 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 37:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 32:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 26:20 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 14:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 38:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 32:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 77 208 285
Gen. 7 19 26
Ex. 3 10 13
Lev. 1 1 2
Num. 2 50 52
Deut. 0 7 7
Josh. 0 3 3
Judg. 0 11 11
1 Sam. 0 14 14
2 Sam. 3 5 8
1 Kgs. 0 17 17
2 Kgs. 1 4 5
1 Chr. 1 5 6
2 Chr. 0 5 5
Neh. 0 1 1
Job 6 5 11
Ps. 14 7 21
Prov. 6 2 8
Eccl. 1 1 2
Isa. 11 6 17
Jer. 7 10 17
Lam. 0 7 7
Ezek. 13 12 25
Joel 0 1 1
Amos 0 1 1
Jonah 0 1 1
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 2 3
NT 11 32 43
BM 8 50 58
DC 2 3 5
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 98 294 392

Jer. 2:6
Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

Jer. 6:3
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

Jer. 13:14
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

Jer. 14:3
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

Jer. 15:5
For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

Jer. 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Jer. 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Jer. 21:7
And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

Jer. 41:7
And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

Jer. 41:9
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.

Jer. 48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.

Jer. 48:44
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

Jer. 52:4
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

Jer. 52:22
And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.