Unit 16

briers and thorns

4 occurrences in 4 verses

2 Nephi 17:23, 24, 25,

2 Nephi 19:18

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 17:24

With arrows and with bows shall men come thither,

because all the land shall become 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 19:18

For wickedness burneth as the fire;

it shall devour the briers and thorns,

and shall kindle in the thickets of the forests,

and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.