Unit 57

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19 occurrences in 14 verses

Alma 21:2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 13,

Alma 22:3, 7, 9, 23, 27, 31, 32, 34

Alma 21:2

Now the Lamanites and the Amalekites and the people of Amulon

had built a great city, which was called Jerusalem.

Alma 21:3

Now the Lamanites of themselves were sufficiently hardened,

but the Amalekites and the Amulonites were still harder;

therefore they did cause the Lamanites that they should harden their hearts,

that they should wax strong in wickedness and their abominations.

Alma 21:4

And it came to pass that Aaron came to the city of Jerusalem,

and first began to preach to the Amalekites.

And he began to preach to them in their synagogues,

for they had built synagogues after the order of the Nehors;

for many of the Amalekites and the Amulonites were after the order of the Nehors.

Alma 21:8

and the man said unto him:

We do not believe that thou knowest any such thing.

We do not believe in these foolish traditions.

We do not believe that thou knowest of things to come,

neither do we believe that thy fathers and also that our fathers did know

concerning the things which they spake, of

that which is to come.

Alma 21:9

Now Aaron began to open the scriptures unto them

concerning the coming of Christ, and also concerning the resurrection of the dead,

and that there could be no redemption for mankind

save it were through the death and sufferings of Christ,

and the atonement of his blood.

Alma 21:13

Nevertheless, Aaron and a certain number of his brethren

were taken and cast into prison,

and the remainder of them fled out of the land of Middoni

unto the regions round about.

Alma 22:3

And now, O king, if thou wilt spare our lives, we will be thy servants.

and the king said unto them:

Arise, for I will grant unto you your lives,

and I will not suffer that ye shall be my servants;

but I will insist that ye shall administer unto me;

for I have been somewhat troubled in mind

because of the generosity and the greatness of the words of thy brother Ammon;

and I desire to know the cause why he has not come up out of Middoni with thee.

Alma 22:7

And Aaron answered him and said unto him:

Believest thou that there is a God?

and the king said:

I know that the Amalekites say that there is a God,

and I have granted unto them that they should build sanctuaries,

that they may assemble themselves together to worship him.

And if now thou sayest there is a God,

behold I will believe.

Alma 22:9

and the king said:

Is God that Great Spirit that brought our fathers out of the land of Jerusalem?

Alma 22:23

Now this was done in the presence of the queen and many of the servants.

And when they saw it they greatly marveled, and began to fear.

and the king stood forth, and began to minister unto them.

And he did minister unto them,

insomuch that his whole household were converted unto the Lord.

Alma 22:27

And it came to pass that the king sent a proclamation throughout all the land,

amongst all his people who were in all his land,

who were in all the regions round about,

which was bordering even to the sea, on the east and on the west,

and which was divided from the land of Zarahemla

by a narrow strip of wilderness, which ran from the sea east even to the sea west,

and round about on the borders of the seashore, and the borders of the wilderness

which was on the north by the land of Zarahemla, through the borders of Manti,

by the head of the river Sidon, running from the east towards the west —

and thus were the Lamanites and the Nephites divided.

Alma 22:31

And they came from there up into the south wilderness.

Thus the land on the northward was called Desolation,

and the land on the southward was called Bountiful,

it being the wilderness which is filled

with all manner of wild animals of every kind,

a part of which had come from the land northward for food.

Alma 22:32

And now, it was only the distance of a day and a half's journey for a Nephite,

on the line Bountiful and the land Desolation,

from the east to the west sea;

and thus the land of Nephi and the land of Zarahemla

were nearly surrounded by water,

there being a small neck of land

between the land northward and the land southward.

Alma 22:34

Therefore the Lamanites could have no more possessions

only in the land of Nephi, and the wilderness round about.

Now this was wisdom in the Nephites — as the Lamanites were an enemy to them,

they would not suffer their afflictions on every hand,

and also that they might have a country

whither they might flee, according to their desires.