Unit 37

desirous

3 occurrences in 3 verses

Mosiah 9:1, 3, 12

Mosiah 9:1

I, Zeniff, having been taught in all the language of the Nephites,

and having had a knowledge of the land of Nephi,

or of the land of our fathers' first inheritance,

and having been sent as a spy among the Lamanites

that I might spy out their forces,

that our army might come upon them and destroy them —

but when I saw that which was good among them

I was desirous that they should not be destroyed.

Mosiah 9:3

And yet, I being over–zealous to inherit the land of our fathers,

collected as many as were desirous to go up to possess the land,

and started again on our journey into the wilderness to go up to the land;

but we were smitten with famine and sore afflictions;

for we were slow to remember the Lord our God.

Mosiah 9:12

Now they were a lazy and an idolatrous people;

therefore they were desirous to bring us into bondage,

that they might glut themselves with the labors of our hands;

yea, that they might feast themselves upon the flocks of our fields.