Unit 52

of the

38 occurrences in 24 verses

Alma 10:2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27, 28, 31,

Alma 11:1, 4, 14, 21, 22, 41, 45

Alma 10:2

I am Amulek;

I am the son of Giddonah,

who was the son of Ishmael,

who was a descendant of Aminadi;

and it was the same Aminadi

who interpreted the writing which was upon the wall of the temple,

which was written by the finger of God.

Alma 10:3

And Aminadi was a descendant of Nephi,

who was the son of Lehi,

who came out of the land of Jerusalem,

who was a descendant of Manasseh,

who was the son of Joseph

who was sold into Egypt by the hands of his brethren.

Alma 10:5

Nevertheless, after all this, I never have known much of the ways of the Lord,

and his mysteries and marvelous power.

I said I never had known much of these things;

but behold, I mistake,

for I have seen much of his mysteries and his marvelous power;

yea, even in the preservation of the lives of this people.

Alma 10:6

Nevertheless, I did harden my heart,

for I was called many times and I would not hear;

therefore I knew concerning these things,

yet I would not know;

therefore I went on rebelling against God, in the wickedness of my heart,

even until the fourth day of this seventh month,

which is in the tenth year of the reign of the judges.

Alma 10:7

As I was journeying to see a very near kindred,

behold an angel of the Lord appeared unto me and said:

Amulek, return to thine own house,

for thou shalt feed a prophet of the Lord;

yea, a holy man, who is a chosen man of God;

for he has fasted many days because of the sins of this people,

and he is an hungered,

and thou shalt receive him into thy house and feed him,

and he shall bless thee and thy house;

and the blessing of the Lord shall rest upon thee and thy house.

Alma 10:8

And it came to pass that I obeyed the voice of the angel,

and returned towards my house.

And as I was going thither

I found the man whom the angel said unto me:

Thou shalt receive into thy house —

and behold it was this same man

who has been speaking unto you concerning the things of God.

Alma 10:11

For behold, he hath blessed mine house,

he hath blessed me, and my women, and my children,

and my father and my kinsfolk;

yea, even all my kindred hath he blessed,

and the blessing of the Lord hath rested upon us

according to the words which he spake.

Alma 10:12

And now, when Amulek had spoken these words

the people began to be astonished,

seeing there was more than one witness

who testified of the things whereof they were accused,

and also of the things which were to come,

according to the spirit of prophecy which was in them.

Alma 10:14

Now it was those men who sought to destroy them,

who were lawyers, who were hired or appointed by the people

to administer the law at their times of trials,

or at the trials of the crimes of the people before the judges.

Alma 10:15

Now these lawyers were learned in all the arts and cunning of the people;

and this was to enable them that they might be skilful in their profession.

Alma 10:17

Now they knew not that Amulek could know of their designs.

But it came to pass as they began to question him,

he perceived their thoughts,

and he said unto them:

O ye wicked and perverse generation,

ye lawyers and hypocrites,

for ye are laying the foundations of the devil;

for ye are laying traps and snares to catch the holy ones of God.

Alma 10:18

Ye are laying plans to pervert the ways of the righteous,

and to bring down the wrath of God upon your heads,

even to the utter destruction of this people.

Alma 10:22

Yea, and I say unto you that

if it were not for the prayers of the righteous, who are now in the land,

that ye would even now be visited with utter destruction;

yet it would not be by flood, as were the people in the days of Noah,

but it would be by famine, and by pestilence, and the sword.

Alma 10:23

But it is by the prayers of the righteous that ye are spared;

now therefore, if ye will cast out the righteous from among you

then will not the Lord stay his hand;

but in his fierce anger he will come out against you;

then ye shall be smitten by famine, and by pestilence, and by the sword;

and the time is soon at hand except ye repent.

Alma 10:27

And now behold, I say unto you,

that the foundation of the destruction of this people is beginning to be laid

by the unrighteousness of your lawyers and your judges.

Alma 10:28

And now it came to pass that when Amulek had spoken these words

the people cried out against him, saying:

Now we know that this man is a child of the devil,

for he hath lied unto us;

for he hath spoken against our law.

And now he says that he has not spoken against it.

Alma 10:31

And there was one among them whose name was Zeezrom.

Now he was the foremost to accuse Amulek and Alma,

he being one of the most expert among them,

having much business to do among the people.

Alma 11:1

Now it was in the law of Mosiah

that every man who was a judge of the law,

or those who were appointed to be judges,

should receive wages according to the time

which they labored to judge those

who were brought before them to be judged.

Alma 11:4

Now these are the names of the different pieces

of their gold, and of their silver, according to their value.

And the names are given by the Nephites,

for they did not reckon after the manner of the Jews who were at Jerusalem;

neither did they measure after the manner of the Jews;

but they altered their reckoning and their measure,

according to the minds and the circumstances of the people,

in every generation, until the reign of the judges,

they having been established by king Mosiah.

Alma 11:14

Now this is the value of the lesser numbers of their reckoning —

Alma 11:21

And this Zeezrom began to question Amulek, saying:

Will ye answer me a few questions which I shall ask you?

Now Zeezrom was a man who was expert in the devices of the devil,

that he might destroy that which was good;

therefore, he said unto Amulek:

Will ye answer the questions which I shall put unto you?

Alma 11:22

And Amulek said unto him:

Yea, if it be according to the Spirit of the Lord, which is in me;

for I shall say nothing which is contrary to the Spirit of the Lord.

And Zeezrom said unto him:

Behold, here are six onties of silver,

and all these will I give thee

if thou wilt deny the existence of a Supreme Being.

Alma 11:41

Therefore the wicked remain as though there had been no redemption made,

except it be the loosing of the bands of death;

for behold, the day cometh that all shall rise from the dead

and stand before God, and be judged according to their works.

Alma 11:45

Now, behold, I have spoken unto you concerning the death of the mortal body,

and also concerning the resurrection of the mortal body.

I say unto you that this mortal body is raised to an immortal body,

that is from death, even from the first death unto life,

that they can die no more;

their spirits uniting with their bodies, never to be divided;

thus the whole becoming spiritual and immortal,

that they can no more see corruption.