Unit 16

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19 occurrences in 17 verses

2 Nephi 16:9, 13,

2 Nephi 17:1, 12, 13, 25,

2 Nephi 18:14,

2 Nephi 19:5, 10, 12, 17, 21,

2 Nephi 20:4, 7, 20,

2 Nephi 21:4, 14

2 Nephi 16:9

And he said:

Go and tell this people —

Hear ye indeed, but they understood not;

and see ye indeed, but they perceived not.

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 17:1

And it came to pass

in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah,

that Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up

toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

2 Nephi 17:12

but Ahaz said:

I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

2 Nephi 17:13

And he said:

Hear ye now, O house of David;

is it a small thing for you to weary men,

but will ye weary my God also?

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 18:14

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 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 19:10

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones;

the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

2 Nephi 19:12

The Syrians before and the Philistines behind;

and they shall devour Israel with open mouth.

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

2 Nephi 19:17

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men,

neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows;

for every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer,

and every mouth speaketh folly.

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

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 20:4

Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners,

and they shall fall under the slain.

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

2 Nephi 20:7

Howbeit he meaneth not so,

neither doth his heart think so;

but in his heart it is to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

2 Nephi 20:20

And it shall come to pass in that day,

that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob,

shall no more again stay upon him that smote them,

but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

2 Nephi 21:4

but with righteousness shall he judge the poor,

and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth;

and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,

and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

2 Nephi 21:14

but they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines towards the west;

they shall spoil them of the east together;

they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab;

and the children of Ammon shall obey them.