Unit 12

that

47 occurrences in 32 verses

2 Nephi 6:2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18,

2 Nephi 7:2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11,

2 Nephi 8:1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 23

2 Nephi 6:2

Behold, my beloved brethren,

I, Jacob, having been called of God,

and ordained after the manner of his holy order,

and having been consecrated by my brother Nephi,

unto whom ye look as a king or a protector,

and on whom ye depend for safety,

behold ye know that I have spoken unto you exceedingly many things.

2 Nephi 6:3

Nevertheless, I speak unto you again;

for I am desirous for the welfare of your souls.

Yea, mine anxiety is great for you;

and ye yourselves know that it ever has been.

For I have exhorted you with all diligence;

and I have taught you the words of my father;

and I have spoken unto you concerning all things

which are written, from the creation of the world.

2 Nephi 6:4

And now, behold, I would speak unto you

concerning things which are, and which are to come;

wherefore, I will read you the words of Isaiah.

And they are the words which my brother has desired

that I should speak unto you.

And I speak unto you for your sakes,

that ye may learn and glorify the name of your God.

2 Nephi 6:7

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers,

and their queens thy nursing mothers;

they shall bow down to thee with their faces towards the earth,

and lick up the dust of thy feet;

and thou shalt know that I am the Lord;

for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

2 Nephi 6:8

And now I, Jacob, would speak somewhat concerning these words.

For behold, the Lord has shown me

that those who were at Jerusalem, from whence we came,

have been slain and carried away captive.

2 Nephi 6:9

Nevertheless, the Lord has shown unto me

that they should return again.

And he also has shown unto me

that the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,

should manifest himself unto them in the flesh;

and after he should manifest himself

they should scourge him and crucify him,

according to the words of the angel who spake it unto me.

2 Nephi 6:10

And after they have hardened their hearts

and stiffened their necks against the Holy One of Israel,

behold, the judgments of the Holy One of Israel shall come upon them.

And the day cometh that they shall be smitten and afflicted.

2 Nephi 6:11

Wherefore, after they are driven to and fro,

for thus saith the angel,

many shall be afflicted in the flesh,

and shall not be suffered to perish, because of the prayers of the faithful;

they shall be scattered, and smitten, and hated;

nevertheless, the Lord will be merciful unto them,

that when they shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer,

they shall be gathered together again to the lands of their inheritance.

2 Nephi 6:12

And blessed are the Gentiles,

they of whom the prophet has written;

for behold, if it so be that they shall repent and fight not against Zion,

and do not unite themselves to that great and abominable church,

they shall be saved;

for the Lord God will fulfil his covenants

which he has made unto his children;

and for this cause the prophet has written these things.

2 Nephi 6:13

Wherefore, they that fight against Zion and the covenant people of the Lord

shall lick up the dust of their feet;

and the people of the Lord shall not be ashamed.

For the people of the Lord are they who wait for him;

for they still wait for the coming of the Messiah.

2 Nephi 6:14

And behold, according to the words of the prophet,

the Messiah will set himself again the second time to recover them;

wherefore, he will manifest himself unto them in power and great glory,

unto the destruction of their enemies,

when that day cometh when they shall believe in him;

and none will he destroy that believe in him.

2 Nephi 6:15

And they that believe not in him shall be destroyed,

both by fire, and by tempest, and by earthquakes,

and by bloodsheds, and by pestilence, and by famine.

And they shall know that the Lord is God, the Holy One of Israel.

2 Nephi 6:17

But thus saith the Lord:

Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away,

and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered;

for the Mighty God shall deliver his covenant people.

For thus saith the Lord:

I will contend with them that contendeth with thee —

2 Nephi 6:18

And I will feed them that oppress thee, with their own flesh;

and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine;

and all flesh shall know that

I the Lord am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

2 Nephi 7:2

Wherefore, when I came, there was no man;

when I called, yea, there was none to answer.

O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem,

or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea,

I make their rivers a wilderness and their fish to stink

because the waters are dried up, and they die because of thirst.

2 Nephi 7:4

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,

that I should know how to speak a word in season

unto thee, O house of Israel. When ye are weary

he waketh morning by morning.

He waketh mine ear to hear as the learned.

2 Nephi 7:6

I gave my back to the smiter,

and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair.

I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

2 Nephi 7:7

For the Lord God will help me,

therefore shall I not be confounded.

Therefore have I set my face like a flint,

and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

2 Nephi 7:10

Who is among you that feareth the Lord,

that obeyeth the voice of his servant,

that walketh in darkness and hath no light?

2 Nephi 7:11

Behold all ye that kindle fire,

that compass yourselves about with sparks,

walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks which ye have kindled.

This shall ye have of mine hand —

ye shall lie down in sorrow.

2 Nephi 8:1

Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness.

Look unto the rock from whence ye are hewn,

and to the hole of the pit from whence ye are digged.

2 Nephi 8:2

Look unto Abraham, your father,

and unto Sarah, she that bare you;

for I called him alone, and blessed him.

2 Nephi 8:6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

and look upon the earth beneath;

for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,

and the earth shall wax old like a garment;

and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner.

But my salvation shall be forever,

and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

2 Nephi 8:7

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness,

the people in whose heart I have written my law,

fear ye not the reproach of men,

neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

2 Nephi 8:9

Awake, awake! Put on strength, O arm of the Lord;

awake as in the ancient days.

Art thou not he that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

2 Nephi 8:10

Art thou not he who hath dried the sea,

the waters of the great deep;

that hath made the depths of the sea a way

for the ransomed to pass over?

2 Nephi 8:12

I am he; yea, I am he that comforteth you.

Behold, who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of man, who shall die,

and of the son of man, who shall be made like unto grass?

2 Nephi 8:13

And forgettest the Lord thy maker,

that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth,

and hast feared continually every day, because of the fury of the oppressor,

as if he were ready to destroy?

And where is the fury of the oppressor?

2 Nephi 8:14

The captive exile hasteneth, that he may be loosed,

and that he should not die in the pit,

nor that his bread should fail.

2 Nephi 8:16

And I have put my words in thy mouth,

and have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand,

that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth,

and say unto Zion: Behold, thou art my people.

2 Nephi 8:18

And none to guide her among all the sons she hath brought forth;

neither that taketh her by the hand, of all the sons she hath brought up.

2 Nephi 8:23

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee;

who have said to thy soul:

Bow down, that we may go over —

and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street

to them that went over.