Unit 1
Lehi
8 occurrences in 8 verses
1 Nephi 1:4, 5, 18,
1 Nephi 2:1,
1 Nephi 5:6, 10, 14, 16
1 Nephi 1:4
For it came to pass in the commencement of the first year
of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah,
(my father, Lehi, having dwelt at Jerusalem in all his days);
and in that same year there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people
that they must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed.
1 Nephi 1:5
Wherefore it came to pass that
my father, Lehi, as he went forth prayed unto the Lord,
yea, even with all his heart, in behalf of his people.
1 Nephi 1:18
Therefore, I would that ye should know, that
after the Lord had shown so many marvelous things unto my father, Lehi,
yea, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem,
behold he went forth among the people, and began to prophesy
and to declare unto them concerning the things
which he had both seen and heard.
1 Nephi 2:1
For behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto my father,
yea, even in a dream, and said unto him:
Blessed art thou Lehi, because of the things which thou hast done;
and because thou hast been faithful
and declared unto this people the things which I commanded thee,
behold, they seek to take away thy life.
1 Nephi 5:6
And after this manner of language
did my father, Lehi, comfort my mother, Sariah, concerning us,
while we journeyed in the wilderness up to the land of Jerusalem,
to obtain the record of the Jews.
1 Nephi 5:10
And after they had given thanks unto the God of Israel,
my father, Lehi, took the records which were engraven upon the plates of brass,
and he did search them from the beginning.
1 Nephi 5:14
And it came to pass that my father, Lehi, also found
upon the plates of brass a genealogy of his fathers;
wherefore he knew that he was a descendant of Joseph;
yea, even that Joseph who was the son of Jacob,
who was sold into Egypt, and who was preserved by the hand of the Lord,
that he might preserve his father, Jacob, and all his household
from perishing with famine.
1 Nephi 5:16
And thus my father, Lehi, did discover the genealogy of his fathers.
And Laban also was a descendant of Joseph,
wherefore he and his fathers had kept the records.
