All segment titles and their associated verse designations are derived from the section headings that appear in The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition - edited by Grant Hardy and published by the BYU Maxwell Institute. Verses are organized into sense lines that are parallel to the verse texts in The Book of Mormon: the Earliest Text - as edited by Royal Skousen and published by Yale. Audio clips are derived from Book of Mormon chapter mp3 audio recordings provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the official Church website.


Unit 18

Segment 7 of 13 [#123]

The Descendants of Lehi in the Last Days (midrash on Isaiah 29:3-5)

2 Nephi 26:14 - 2 Nephi 26:19

Duration: 1:35

contextual study / concordance



2 Nephi 26:14

But behold, I prophesy unto you concerning the last days;

concerning the days when the Lord God shall bring these things forth

unto the children of men.


2 Nephi 26:15

After my seed and the seed of my brethren shall have dwindled in unbelief,

and shall have been smitten by the Gentiles;

yea, after the Lord God shall have camped against them round about,

and shall have laid siege against them with a mount, and raised forts against them;

and after they shall have been brought down low in the dust,

even that they are not,

yet the words of the righteous shall be written,

and the prayers of the faithful shall be heard,

and all those who have dwindled in unbelief shall not be forgotten.


2 Nephi 26:16

For those who shall be destroyed shall speak unto them out of the ground,

and their speech shall be low out of the dust,

and their voice shall be as one that hath a familiar spirit;

for the Lord God will give unto him power,

that he may whisper concerning them,

even as it were out of the ground;

and their speech shall whisper out of the dust.


2 Nephi 26:17

For thus saith the Lord God:

They shall write the things which shall be done among them,

and they shall be written and sealed up in a book,

and those who have dwindled in unbelief shall not have them,

for they seek to destroy the things of God.


2 Nephi 26:18

Wherefore, as those who have been destroyed have been destroyed speedily;

and the multitude of their terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away —

yea, thus saith the Lord God:

It shall be at an instant, suddenly —


2 Nephi 26:19

And it shall come to pass, that those who have dwindled in unbelief

shall be smitten by the hand of the Gentiles.



The End of Unit 18 - Segment 7