Old Testament Books: Length vs LDS Conference Citations

As a follow up to my previous post, here's the same analysis done with books of the Old Testament:

And for the ratio of Citation % / Book Length %, the top books (ratio > 1) are:

Book	Citation/Length
Malachi	15.6
Obadiah	3.2
Isaiah	2.9
Amos	2.7
Genesis	2.1
Exodus	1.8
Daniel	1.7
Proverbs	1.5
Joel	1.4
Ecclesiastes	1.3
1 Samuel	1.3
Micah	1.2
Joshua	1.1

A few of these books, might be what you call One-Hit Wonders. They have one verse that gets quoted a lot and that drives up the citations for the whole book. For example in Obadiah, all the citations are for verse 21, and Amos 3:7 carries half the weight for Amos's citations. However, if you're looking for good books to study, Malachi, Isaiah, and Genesis are great places to start. After all, the Lord calls out Malachi and Isaiah specifically in the Book of Mormon (see 3 Nephi 24:1 and 3 Nephi 23:1.)

Speaking of Book Mormon...next blog post will be on Book of Mormon.

Notes on sources:

LDS Conference scripture citations are based on citations from 1971 to 2016 from the LDS Scripture Citation Index (http://scriptures.byu.edu/)

Old Testament verse statistics were from online at http://catholic-resources.org/Bible/OT-Statistics-NAB.htm; apocryphal books were excluded.