Unit 58

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18 occurrences in 13 verses

Alma 23:5, 6, 15,

Alma 24:5, 20, 21, 23, 27,

Alma 25:13, 15,

Alma 26:20, 23, 24

Alma 23:5

And thousands were brought to the knowledge of the Lord,

yea, thousands were brought to believe in the traditions of the Nephites;

and they were taught the records and prophecies

which were handed down even to the present time.

Alma 23:6

And as sure as the Lord liveth,

so sure as many as believed,

or as many as were brought to the knowledge of the truth,

through the preaching of Ammon and his brethren,

according to the spirit of revelation and of prophecy,

and the power of God working miracles in them —

yea, I say unto you, as the Lord liveth,

as many of the Lamanites as believed in their preaching,

and were converted unto the Lord,

never did fall away.

Alma 23:15

Therefore, we have named all the cities of the Lamanites

in which they did repent

and come to the knowledge of the truth,

and were converted.

Alma 24:5

Now when Ammon and his brethren and all those who had come up with him

saw the preparations of the Lamanites to destroy their brethren,

they came forth to the land of Midian,

and there Ammon met all his brethren;

and from thence they came to the land of Ishmael

that they might hold a council with Lamoni

and also with his brother Anti-Nephi-Lehi,

what they should do to defend themselves against the Lamanites.

Alma 24:20

And it came to pass that their brethren, the Lamanites, made preparations for war,

and came up to the land of Nephi for the purpose of destroying the king,

and to place another in his stead,

and also of destroying the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi out of the land.

Alma 24:21

Now when the people saw that they were coming against them

they went out to meet them, and prostrated themselves before them to the earth,

and began to call on the name of the Lord;

and thus they were in this attitude

when the Lamanites began to fall upon them,

and began to slay them with the sword.

Alma 24:23

Now when the Lamanites saw that their brethren would not flee from the sword,

neither would they turn aside to the right hand or to the left,

but that they would lie down and perish,

and praised God even in the very act of perishing under the sword —

Alma 24:27

And there was not a wicked man slain among them;

but there were more than a thousand brought to the knowledge of the truth;

thus we see that the Lord worketh in many ways to the salvation of his people.

Alma 25:13

And it came to pass that

when the Lamanites saw that they could not overpower the Nephites

they returned again to their own land;

and many of them came over to dwell in the land of Ishmael and the land of Nephi,

and did join themselves to the people of God,

who were the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi.

Alma 25:15

Yea, and they did keep the law of Moses;

for it was expedient that they should keep the law of Moses as yet,

for it was not all fulfilled.

But notwithstanding the law of Moses,

they did look forward to the coming of Christ,

considering that the law of Moses was a type of his coming,

and believing that they must keep those outward performances

until the time that he should be revealed unto them.

Alma 26:20

Oh, my soul, almost as it were, fleeth at the thought.

Behold, he did not exercise his justice upon us,

but in his great mercy hath brought us

over that everlasting gulf of death and misery,

even to the salvation of our souls.

Alma 26:23

Now do ye remember, my brethren,

that we said unto our brethren in the land of Zarahemla,

we go up to the land of Nephi, to preach unto our brethren, the Lamanites,

and they laughed us to scorn?

Alma 26:24

For they said unto us:

Do ye suppose that ye can bring the Lamanites to the knowledge of the truth?

Do ye suppose that ye can convince the Lamanites

of the incorrectness of the traditions of their fathers,

as stiffnecked a people as they are;

whose hearts delight in the shedding of blood;

whose days have been spent in the grossest iniquity;

whose ways have been the ways of a transgressor from the beginning?

Now my brethren, ye remember that this was their language.