Unit 16

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59 occurrences in 40 verses

2 Nephi 16:10, 11, 12, 13,

2 Nephi 17:4, 8, 9, 16, 23, 25,

2 Nephi 18:4, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22,

2 Nephi 19:1, 5, 6, 19, 20, 21,

2 Nephi 20:2, 17, 18, 19, 22, 24, 27, 30, 33,

2 Nephi 21:5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 22:2

2 Nephi 16:10

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes —

lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,

and understand with their heart, and be converted and be healed.

2 Nephi 16:11

Then said I:

Lord, how long?

And he said:

Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant,

and the houses without man,

and the land be utterly desolate;

2 Nephi 16:12

And the Lord have removed men far away,

for there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

2 Nephi 16:13

But yet there shall be a tenth,

and they shall return, and shall be eaten,

as a teil tree, and as an oak

whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves;

so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

2 Nephi 17:4

And say unto him:

Take heed, and be quiet;

fear not, neither be faint-hearted

for the two tails of these smoking firebrands,

for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

2 Nephi 17:8

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rezin;

and within three score and five years shall Ephraim be broken

that it be not a people.

2 Nephi 17:9

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,

and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son.

If ye will not believe surely ye shall not be established.

2 Nephi 17:16

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good,

the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

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.

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.

2 Nephi 18:4

For behold, the child shall not have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother,

before the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria

shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

2 Nephi 18:9

Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces;

and give ear all ye of far countries;

gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces;

gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

2 Nephi 18:12

Say ye not, A confederacy,

to all to whom this people shall say, A confederacy;

neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

2 Nephi 18:13

Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself,

and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

2 Nephi 18:14

And he shall be for a sanctuary;

but for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel,

for a gin and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

2 Nephi 18:15

And many among them shall stumble and fall,

and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

2 Nephi 18:21

And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry;

and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry,

they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

2 Nephi 18:22

And they shall look unto the earth

and behold trouble, and darkness, dimness of anguish,

and shall be driven to darkness.

2 Nephi 19:1

Nevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,

when at first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali,

and afterwards did more grievously afflict by the way of the Red Sea

beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations.

2 Nephi 19:5

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood;

but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

2 Nephi 19:6

For unto us a child is born,

unto us a son is given;

and the government shall be upon his shoulder;

and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor,

The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

2 Nephi 19:19

Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the land darkened,

and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire;

no man shall spare his brother.

2 Nephi 19:20

And he shall snatch on the right hand and be hungry;

and he shall eat on the left hand and they shall not be satisfied;

they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm —

2 Nephi 19:21

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh;

they together shall be against Judah.

For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Nephi 20:2

To turn away the needy from judgment,

and to take away the right from the poor of my people,

that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

2 Nephi 20:17

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame,

and shall burn and shall devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

2 Nephi 20:18

And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,

both soul and body;

and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.

2 Nephi 20:19

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few,

that a child may write them.

2 Nephi 20:22

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea,

yet a remnant of them shall return;

the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

2 Nephi 20:24

Therefore, thus saith the Lord God of Hosts:

O my people that dwellest in Zion,

be not afraid of the Assyrian;

he shall smite thee with a rod,

and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

2 Nephi 20:27

And it shall come to pass in that day

that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder,

and his yoke from off thy neck,

and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

2 Nephi 20:30

Lift up the voice, O daughter of Gallim;

cause it to be heard unto Laish,

O poor Anathoth.

2 Nephi 20:33

Behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts shall lop the bough with terror;

and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down;

and the haughty shall be humbled.

2 Nephi 21:5

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,

and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

2 Nephi 21:9

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,

for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord,

as the waters cover the sea.

2 Nephi 21:10

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,

which shall stand for an ensign of the people;

to it shall the Gentiles seek; and his rest shall be glorious.

2 Nephi 21:11

And it shall come to pass in that day

that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time

to recover the remnant of his people

which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt,

and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam,

and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

2 Nephi 21:13

The envy of Ephraim also shall depart,

and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;

Ephraim shall not envy Judah,

and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

2 Nephi 21:16

And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people

which shall be left, from Assyria,

like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

2 Nephi 21:22