Unit 40

the priests

9 occurrences in 9 verses

Mosiah 17:1, 12,

Mosiah 18:24, 26,

Mosiah 19:21,

Mosiah 20:3, 18, 23,

Mosiah 21:23

Mosiah 17:1

And now it came to pass that when Abinadi had finished these sayings,

that the king commanded that the priests should take him

and cause that he should be put to death.

Mosiah 17:12

But the priests lifted up their voices against him,

and began to accuse him, saying:

He has reviled the king.

Therefore the king was stirred up in anger against him,

and he delivered him up that he might be slain.

Mosiah 18:24

And he also commanded them that the priests whom he had ordained

should labor with their own hands for their support.

Mosiah 18:26

And the priests were not to depend upon the people for their support;

but for their labor they were to receive the grace of God,

that they might wax strong in the Spirit,

having the knowledge of God,

that they might teach with power and authority from God.

Mosiah 19:21

And they were about to take the priests also and put them to death,

and they fled before them.

Mosiah 20:3

And now the priests of king Noah, being ashamed to return to the city of Nephi,

yea, and also fearing that the people would slay them,

therefore they durst not return to their wives and their children.

Mosiah 20:18

For do ye not remember the priests of thy father,

whom this people sought to destroy?

And are they not in the wilderness?

And are not they the ones who have stolen the daughters of the Lamanites?

Mosiah 20:23

And now Limhi told the king all the things

concerning his father, and the priests that had fled into the wilderness,

and attributed the carrying away of their daughters to them.

Mosiah 21:23

And the king having been without the gates of the city with his guard,

discovered Ammon and his brethren;

and supposing them to be priests of Noah

therefore he caused that they should be taken, and bound, and cast into prison.

And had they been the priests of Noah

he would have caused that they should be put to death.