Unit 54

Alma and Amulek

20 occurrences in 17 verses

Alma 14:2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 14, 17, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29,

Alma 15:1, 3, 4, 15, 16

Alma 14:2

But the more part of them were desirous

that they might destroy Alma and Amulek;

for they were angry with Alma,

because of the plainness of his words unto Zeezrom;

and they also said that Amulek had lied unto them,

and had reviled against their law and also against their lawyers and judges.

Alma 14:3

And they were also angry with Alma and Amulek;

and because they had testified so plainly against their wickedness,

they sought to put them away privily.

Alma 14:5

And the people went forth and witnessed against them —

testifying that they had reviled against the law,

and their lawyers and judges of the land,

and also of all the people that were in the land;

and also testified that there was but one God,

and that he should send his Son among the people,

but he should not save them;

and many such things did the people testify against Alma and Amulek.

Now this was done before the chief judge of the land.

Alma 14:7

And it came to pass that he began to cry unto the people, saying:

Behold, I am guilty, and these men are spotless before God.

And he began to plead for them from that time forth;

but they reviled him, saying:

Art thou also possessed with the devil?

And they spit upon him,

and cast him out from among them,

and also all those who believed in the words

which had been spoken by Alma and Amulek;

and they cast them out, and sent men to cast stones at them.

Alma 14:9

And it came to pass that they took Alma and Amulek,

and carried them forth to the place of martyrdom,

that they might witness the destruction of those who were consumed by fire.

Alma 14:14

Now it came to pass that when the bodies of those

who had been cast into the fire were consumed,

and also the records which were cast in with them,

the chief judge of the land came

and stood before Alma and Amulek, as they were bound;

and he smote them with his hand upon their cheeks,

and said unto them:

After what ye have seen, will ye preach again unto this people,

that they shall be cast into a lake of fire and brimstone?

Alma 14:17

And it came to pass that Alma and Amulek answered him nothing;

and he smote them again,

and delivered them to the officers to be cast into prison.

Alma 14:23

And it came to pass after they had thus suffered for many days,

(and it was on the twelfth day, in the tenth month, in the tenth year

of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi)

that the chief judge over the land of Ammonihah

and many of their teachers and their lawyers went in unto the prison

where Alma and Amulek were bound with cords.

Alma 14:25

And it came to pass that they all went forth and smote them,

saying the same words, even until the last;

and when the last had spoken unto them

the power of God was upon Alma and Amulek,

and they rose and stood upon their feet.

Alma 14:27

And it came to pass that so great was their fear

that they fell to the earth, and did not obtain the outer door of the prison;

and the earth shook mightily, and the walls of the prison were rent in twain,

so that they fell to the earth;

and the chief judge, and the lawyers, and priests, and teachers,

who smote upon Alma and Amulek,

were slain by the fall thereof.

Alma 14:28

And Alma and Amulek came forth out of the prison,

and they were not hurt;

for the Lord had granted unto them power,

according to their faith which was in Christ.

And they straightway came forth out of the prison;

and they were loosed from their bands;

and the prison had fallen to the earth,

and every soul within the walls thereof,

save it were Alma and Amulek, was slain;

and they straightway came forth into the city.

Alma 14:29

Now the people having heard a great noise

came running together by multitudes to know the cause of it;

and when they saw Alma and Amulek coming forth out of the prison,

and the walls thereof had fallen to the earth,

they were struck with great fear,

and fled from the presence of Alma and Amulek

even as a goat fleeth with her young from two lions;

and thus they did flee from the presence of Alma and Amulek.

Alma 15:1

And it came to pass that

Alma and Amulek were commanded to depart out of that city;

and they departed, and came out even into the land of Sidom;

and behold, there they found all the people

who had departed out of the land of Ammonihah,

who had been cast out and stoned,

because they believed in the words of Alma.

Alma 15:3

And also Zeezrom lay sick at Sidom, with a burning fever,

which was caused by the great tribulations of his mind

on account of his wickedness,

for he supposed that Alma and Amulek were no more;

and he supposed that they had been slain because of his iniquity.

And this great sin, and his many other sins, did harrow up his mind

until it did become exceedingly sore,

having no deliverance;

therefore he began to be scorched with a burning heat.

Alma 15:4

Now, when he heard that Alma and Amulek were in the land of Sidom,

his heart began to take courage;

and he sent a message immediately unto them,

desiring them to come unto him.

Alma 15:15

But as to the people that were in the land of Ammonihah,

they yet remained a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people;

and they repented not of their sins,

ascribing all the power of Alma and Amulek to the devil;

for they were of the profession of Nehor,

and did not believe in the repentance of their sins.

Alma 15:16

And it came to pass that Alma and Amulek,

Amulek having forsaken all his gold, and silver,

and his precious things, which were in the land of Ammonihah,

for the word of God,

he being rejected by those who were once his friends

and also by his father and his kindred;