Unit 65

and their

11 occurrences in 9 verses

Alma 46:7, 20,

Alma 47:19,

Alma 48:5, 10, 24,

Alma 49:4, 20, 24

Alma 46:7

And there were many in the church

who believed in the flattering words of Amalickiah,

therefore they dissented even from the church;

and thus were the affairs of the people of Nephi

exceedingly precarious and dangerous,

notwithstanding their great victory which they had had over the Lamanites,

and their great rejoicings which they had had

because of their deliverance by the hand of the Lord.

Alma 46:20

Behold, whosoever will maintain this title upon the land,

let them come forth in the strength of the Lord,

and enter into a covenant

that they will maintain their rights, and their religion,

that the Lord God may bless them.

Alma 47:19

Now, when Lehonti was dead,

the Lamanites appointed Amalickiah to be their leader and their chief commander.

Alma 48:5

And thus he did appoint chief captains of the Zoramites,

they being the most acquainted with the strength of the Nephites,

and their places of resort, and the weakest parts of their cities;

therefore he appointed them to be chief captains over his armies.

Alma 48:10

And thus he was preparing to support their liberty,

their lands, their wives, and their children, and their peace,

and that they might live unto the Lord their God,

and that they might maintain

that which was called by their enemies the cause of Christians.

Alma 48:24

Nevertheless, they could not suffer to lay down their lives,

that their wives and their children should be massacred

by the barbarous cruelty of those who were once their brethren,

yea, and had dissented from their church,

and had left them and had gone to destroy them by joining the Lamanites.

Alma 49:4

But behold, how great was their disappointment;

for behold, the Nephites had dug up a ridge of earth round about them,

which was so high that the Lamanites could not cast

their stones and their arrows at them that they might take effect,

neither could they come upon them

save it was by their place of entrance.

Alma 49:20

Thus they were prepared,

yea, a body of their strongest men, with their swords and their slings,

to smite down all who should attempt

to come into their place of security by the place of entrance;

and thus were they prepared to defend themselves against the Lamanites.

Alma 49:24

There were about fifty who were wounded,

who had been exposed to the arrows of the Lamanites through the pass,

but they were shielded by their shields, and their breastplates, and their head-plates,

insomuch that their wounds were upon their legs,

many of which were very severe.