Unit 54

the land

17 occurrences in 13 verses

Alma 13:17, 18,

Alma 14:4, 5, 14, 23,

Alma 15:1, 4, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18

Alma 13:17

Now this Melchizedek was a king over the land of Salem;

and his people had waxed strong in iniquity and abomination;

yea, they had all gone astray;

they were full of all manner of wickedness;

Alma 13:18

But Melchizedek having exercised mighty faith,

and received the office of the high priesthood

according to the holy order of God,

did preach repentance unto his people.

And behold, they did repent;

and Melchizedek did establish peace in the land in his days;

therefore he was called the prince of peace,

for he was the king of Salem;

and he did reign under his father.

Alma 14:4

But it came to pass that they did not;

but they took them and bound them with strong cords,

and took them before the chief judge of the land.

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 14:14

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 14:23

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 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 15:4

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 15:11

And when Alma had said these words,

Zeezrom leaped upon his feet, and began to walk;

and this was done to the great astonishment of all the people;

and the knowledge of this went forth throughout all the land of Sidom.

Alma 15:13

And Alma established a church in the land of Sidom,

and consecrated priests and teachers in the land,

to baptize unto the Lord whosoever were desirous to be baptized.

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;

Alma 15:18

Now as I said,

Alma having seen all these things,

therefore he took Amulek and came over to the land of Zarahemla,

and took him to his own house,

and did administer unto him in his tribulations,

and strengthened him in the Lord.