Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'nine' occurs 71 times in the standard works.

15 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'nine' in the standard works and contain 21.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 2:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 5:27 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 8:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 7:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 18:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 45 44 89
NT 5 7 12
BM 12 30 42
DC 2 4 6
PGP 7 3 10
TOTAL 71 88 159

Gen. 5:5
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Gen. 5:8
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

Gen. 5:11
And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

Gen. 5:14
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

Gen. 5:20
And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

Gen. 5:27
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Gen. 9:29
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

Gen. 11:19
And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

Gen. 11:24
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

Gen. 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Gen. 17:24
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Ex. 38:24
All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

Lev. 25:8
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

Num. 1:23
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

Num. 2:13
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

Num. 29:26
And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

Num. 34:13
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the Lord commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:

Deut. 3:11
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Josh. 13:7
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

Josh. 14:2
By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.

Josh. 15:32
And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:

Josh. 15:44
And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:

Josh. 15:54
And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:

Josh. 21:16
And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

Judg. 4:3
And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

Judg. 4:13
And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.

2 Sam. 24:8
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

2 Kgs. 14:2
He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2 Kgs. 15:13
Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

2 Kgs. 15:17
In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.

2 Kgs. 17:1
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.

2 Kgs. 18:2
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

1 Chr. 3:8
And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

1 Chr. 9:9
And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.

2 Chr. 25:1
Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

2 Chr. 29:1
Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

Ezra 1:9
And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

Ezra 2:8
The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.

Ezra 2:36
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

Ezra 2:42
The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.

Neh. 7:38
The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

Neh. 7:39
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

Neh. 11:1
And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.

Neh. 11:8
And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.

Matt. 18:12
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

Matt. 18:13
And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

Luke 15:4
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

Luke 15:7
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Luke 17:17
And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

Enos 1:25
And it came to pass that I began to be old, and an hundred and seventy and nine years had passed away from the time that our father Lehi left Jerusalem.

Omni 1:21
And they gave an account of one Coriantumr, and the slain of his people. And Coriantumr was discovered by the people of Zarahemla; and he dwelt with them for the space of nine moons.

Mosiah 9:19
And I, myself, with mine own hands, did help to bury their dead. And behold, to our great sorrow and lamentation, two hundred and seventy-nine of our brethren were slain.

Mosiah 29:46
And it came to pass that Mosiah died also, in the thirty and third year of his reign, being sixty and three years old; making in the whole, five hundred and nine years from the time Lehi left Jerusalem.

3 Ne. 2:6
And six hundred and nine years had passed away since Lehi left Jerusalem.

3 Ne. 2:7
And nine years had passed away from the time when the sign was given, which was spoken of by the prophets, that Christ should come into the world.

3 Ne. 2:8
Now the Nephites began to reckon their time from this period when the sign was given, or from the coming of Christ; therefore, nine years had passed away.

4 Ne. 1:6
And thus did the thirty and eighth year pass away, and also the thirty and ninth, and forty and first, and the forty and second, yea, even until forty and nine years had passed away, and also the fifty and first, and the fifty and second; yea, and even until fifty and nine years had passed away.

Morm. 5:5
But it came to pass that whatsoever lands we had passed by, and the inhabitants thereof were not gathered in, were destroyed by the Lamanites, and their towns, and villages, and cities were burned with fire; and thus three hundred and seventy and nine years passed away.

Ether 9:25
And it came to pass that he begat Com, and Com reigned in his stead; and he reigned forty and nine years, and he begat Heth; and he also begat other sons and daughters.

Ether 15:23
And on the morrow they fought again; and when the night came they had all fallen by the sword save it were fifty and two of the people of Coriantumr, and sixty and nine of the people of Shiz.

D&C 102:5
The number composing the council, who voted in the name and for the church in appointing the above-named councilors were forty-three, as follows: nine high priests, seventeen elders, four priests, and thirteen members.

D&C 107:42
From Adam to Seth, who was ordained by Adam at the age of sixty-nine years, and was blessed by him three years previous to his (Adam's) death, and received the promise of God by his father, that his posterity should be the chosen of the Lord, and that they should be preserved unto the end of the earth;

Moses 6:12
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Moses 6:16
All the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

Moses 6:18
And Enos lived, after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat many sons and daughters. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

Moses 6:19
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel; and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

Moses 6:24
And it came to pass that all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died.

Moses 8:7
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.