Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ditch' occurs 10 times in the standard works.

3 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ditch' in the standard works and contain 30% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 53:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

 53:3 And it came to pass that after the Lamanites had finished burying their dead and also the dead of the Nephites, they were marched back into the land Bountiful; and Teancum, by the orders of Moroni, caused that they should commence laboring in digging a ditch round about the land, or the city, Bountiful.

 53:4 And he caused that they should build a breastwork of timbers upon the inner bank of the ditch; and they cast up dirt out of the ditch against the breastwork of timbers; and thus they did cause the Lamanites to labor until they had encircled the city of Bountiful round about with a strong wall of timbers and earth, to an exceeding height.




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Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 4 1 5
NT 2 0 2
BM 4 1 5
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 10 2 12

2 Kgs. 3:16
And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches.

Job 9:31
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Ps. 7:15
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

Prov. 23:27
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Isa. 22:11
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

Matt. 15:14
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Luke 6:39
And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

Alma 49:18
Now behold, the Lamanites could not get into their forts of security by any other way save by the entrance, because of the highness of the bank which had been thrown up, and the depth of the ditch which had been dug round about, save it were by the entrance.

Alma 49:22
Now when they found that they could not obtain power over the Nephites by the pass, they began to dig down their banks of earth that they might obtain a pass to their armies, that they might have an equal chance to fight; but behold, in these attempts they were swept off by the stones and arrows which were thrown at them; and instead of filling up their ditches by pulling down the banks of earth, they were filled up in a measure with their dead and wounded bodies.

Alma 53:3
And it came to pass that after the Lamanites had finished burying their dead and also the dead of the Nephites, they were marched back into the land Bountiful; and Teancum, by the orders of Moroni, caused that they should commence laboring in digging a ditch round about the land, or the city, Bountiful.

Alma 53:4
And he caused that they should build a breastwork of timbers upon the inner bank of the ditch; and they cast up dirt out of the ditch against the breastwork of timbers; and thus they did cause the Lamanites to labor until they had encircled the city of Bountiful round about with a strong wall of timbers and earth, to an exceeding height.