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Unit 16

Segment 4 of 14 [#101]

Devastation at the Hands of Assyria

2 Nephi 17:18 - 2 Nephi 17:25

Duration: 1:11

contextual study / concordance


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2 Nephi 17:18

And it shall come to pass in that day

that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of Egypt,

and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

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2 Nephi 17:19

And they shall come, and shall rest all of them

in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks,

and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

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2 Nephi 17:20

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor

that is hired, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria,

the head, and the hair of the feet;

and it shall also consume the beard.

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2 Nephi 17:21

And it shall come to pass in that day,

a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep;

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2 Nephi 17:22

And it shall come to pass,

for the abundance of milk they shall give he shall eat butter;

for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

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2 Nephi 17:23

And it shall come to pass in that day, every place shall be,

where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings,

which shall be for briers and thorns.

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2 Nephi 17:24

With arrows and with bows shall men come thither,

because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

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2 Nephi 17:25

And all hills that shall be digged with the mattock,

there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns;

but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and the treading of lesser cattle.



The End of Unit 16 - Segment 4