Unit 59

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13 occurrences in 12 verses

Alma 27:1, 3, 5, 17, 20, 25,

Alma 28:10, 11, 12,

Alma 29:10, 14, 16

Alma 27:1

Now it came to pass that

when those Lamanites who had gone to war against the Nephites had found,

after their many struggles to destroy them,

that it was in vain to seek their destruction,

they returned again to the land of Nephi.

Alma 27:3

Now this people again refused to take their arms,

and they suffered themselves to be slain according to the desires of their enemies.

Alma 27:5

Let us gather together this people of the Lord,

and let us go down to the land of Zarahemla to our brethren the Nephites,

and flee out of the hands of our enemies, that we be not destroyed.

Alma 27:17

Now the joy of Ammon was so great even that he was full;

yea, he was swallowed up in the joy of his God,

even to the exhausting of his strength;

and he fell again to the earth.

Alma 27:20

And now it came to pass that Alma conducted his brethren

back to the land of Zarahemla; even to his own house.

And they went and told the chief judge

all the things that had happened unto them

in the land of Nephi, among their brethren, the Lamanites.

Alma 27:25

Now, it came to pass that when Ammon had heard this,

he returned to the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, and also Alma with him,

into the wilderness, where they had pitched their tents,

and made known unto them all these things.

And Alma also related unto them his conversion,

with Ammon and Aaron, and his brethren.

Alma 28:10

And from the first year to the fifteenth has brought to pass

the destruction of many thousand lives;

yea, it has brought to pass an awful scene of bloodshed.

Alma 28:11

And the bodies of many thousands are laid low in the earth,

while the bodies of many thousands are moldering

in heaps upon the face of the earth;

yea, and many thousands are mourning for the loss of their kindred,

because they have reason to fear, according to the promises of the Lord,

that they are consigned to a state of endless wo.

Alma 28:12

While many thousands of others truly mourn for the loss of their kindred,

yet they rejoice and exult in the hope,

and even know, according to the promises of the Lord,

that they are raised to dwell at the right hand of God,

in a state of never-ending happiness.

Alma 29:10

And behold, when I see many of my brethren truly penitent,

and coming to the Lord their God,

then is my soul filled with joy;

then do I remember what the Lord has done for me,

yea, even that he hath heard my prayer;

yea, then do I remember his merciful arm which he extended towards me.

Alma 29:14

But I do not joy in my own success alone,

but my joy is more full because of the success of my brethren,

who have been up to the land of Nephi.

Alma 29:16

Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren

my soul is carried away,

even to the separation of it from the body, as it were,

so great is my joy.