Unit 38

of the

27 occurrences in 21 verses

Mosiah 11:2, 4, 7, 10, 13, 17, 19, 27, 29,

Mosiah 12:2, 8, 11, 12, 24, 26, 34,

Mosiah 13:5, 11, 13, 15, 18

Mosiah 11:2

For behold, he did not keep the commandments of God,

but he did walk after the desires of his own heart.

And he had many wives and concubines.

And he did cause his people to commit sin,

and do that which was abominable in the sight of the Lord.

Yea, and they did commit whoredoms and all manner of wickedness.

Mosiah 11:4

And all this did he take to support himself, and his wives and his concubines;

and also his priests, and their wives and their concubines;

thus he had changed the affairs of the kingdom.

Mosiah 11:7

Yea, and they also became idolatrous,

because they were deceived

by the vain and flattering words of the king and priests;

for they did speak flattering things unto them.

Mosiah 11:10

And he also caused that his workmen should work

all manner of fine work within the walls of the temple,

of fine wood, and of copper, and of brass.

Mosiah 11:13

And it came to pass that he caused many buildings to be built in the land Shilom;

and he caused a great tower to be built on the hill north of the land Shilom,

which had been a resort for the children of Nephi

at the time they fled out of the land;

and thus he did do with the riches which he obtained by the taxation of his people.

Mosiah 11:17

And king Noah sent guards round about the land to keep them off;

but he did not send a sufficient number,

and the Lamanites came upon them and killed them,

and drove many of their flocks out of the land;

thus the Lamanites began to destroy them, and to exercise their hatred upon them.

Mosiah 11:19

And now, because of this great victory

they were lifted up in the pride of their hearts;

they did boast in their own strength,

saying that their fifty could stand against thousands of the Lamanites;

and thus they did boast, and did delight

in blood, and the shedding of the blood of their brethren,

and this because of the wickedness of their king and priests.

Mosiah 11:27

Now when king Noah had heard of the words

which Abinadi had spoken unto the people,

he was also wroth; and he said:

Who is Abinadi, that I and my people should be judged of him,

or who is the Lord, that shall bring upon my people such great affliction?

Mosiah 11:29

Now the eyes of the people were blinded;

therefore they hardened their hearts against the words of Abinadi,

and they sought from that time forward to take him.

And king Noah hardened his heart against the word of the Lord,

and he did not repent of his evil doings.

Mosiah 12:2

Yea, wo be unto this generation!

And the Lord said unto me:

Stretch forth thy hand and prophesy, saying:

Thus saith the Lord,

it shall come to pass that this generation, because of their iniquities,

shall be brought into bondage, and shall be smitten on the cheek;

yea, and shall be driven by men, and shall be slain;

and the vultures of the air, and the dogs,

yea, and the wild beasts,

shall devour their flesh.

Mosiah 12:8

And it shall come to pass that except they repent

I will utterly destroy them from off the face of the earth;

yet they shall leave a record behind them,

and I will preserve them for other nations which shall possess the land;

yea, even this will I do

that I may discover the abominations of this people to other nations.

And many things did Abinadi prophesy against this people.

Mosiah 12:11

And again, he saith that thou shalt be as a stalk,

even as a dry stalk of the field,

which is run over by the beasts and trodden under foot.

Mosiah 12:12

And again, he saith thou shalt be as the blossoms of a thistle,

which, when it is fully ripe, if the wind bloweth,

it is driven forth upon the face of the land.

And he pretendeth the Lord hath spoken it.

And he saith all this shall come upon thee except thou repent,

and this because of thine iniquities.

Mosiah 12:24

The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations,

and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God?

Mosiah 12:26

I say unto you,

wo be unto you for perverting the ways of the Lord!

For if ye understand these things ye have not taught them;

therefore, ye have perverted the ways of the Lord.

Mosiah 12:34

I am the Lord thy God,

who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt,

out of the house of bondage.

Mosiah 13:5

Now it came to pass after Abinadi had spoken these words

that the people of king Noah durst not lay their hands on him,

for the Spirit of the Lord was upon him;

and his face shone with exceeding luster, even as Moses' did

while in the mount of Sinai, while speaking with the Lord.

Mosiah 13:11

And now I read unto you the remainder of the commandments of God,

for I perceive that they are not written in your hearts;

I perceive that ye have studied and taught iniquity the most part of your lives.

Mosiah 13:13

And again: Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them;

for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God,

visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children,

unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me;

Mosiah 13:15

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain;

for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Mosiah 13:18

But the seventh day, the sabbath of the Lord thy God,

thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,

thy man–servant, nor thy maid–servant, nor thy cattle,

nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;