Unit 65

Lamanites

48 occurrences in 38 verses

Alma 45:14, 21,

Alma 46:7, 30,

Alma 47:1, 4, 5, 8, 17, 19, 23, 35, 36,

Alma 48:1, 2, 3, 21, 22, 23, 24,

Alma 49:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25

Alma 45:14

But whosoever remaineth, and is not destroyed in that great and dreadful day,

shall be numbered among the Lamanites,

and shall become like unto them,

all, save it be a few who shall be called the disciples of the Lord;

and them shall the Lamanites pursue

even until they shall become extinct.

And now, because of iniquity, this prophecy shall be fulfilled.

Alma 45:21

For behold, because of their wars with the Lamanites

and the many little dissensions and disturbances

which had been among the people,

it became expedient that the word of God should be declared among them,

yea, and that a regulation should be made throughout the church.

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 46:30

Now Moroni thought it was not expedient

that the Lamanites should have any more strength;

therefore he thought to cut off the people of Amalickiah,

or to take them and bring them back,

and put Amalickiah to death;

yea, for he knew that he would stir up the Lamanites to anger against them,

and cause them to come to battle against them;

and this he knew that Amalickiah would do

that he might obtain his purposes.

Alma 47:1

Now we will return in our record to Amalickiah

and those who had fled with him into the wilderness;

for, behold, he had taken those who went with him,

and went up in the land of Nephi among the Lamanites,

and did stir up the Lamanites to anger against the people of Nephi,

insomuch that the king of the Lamanites sent a proclamation

throughout all his land, among all his people,

that they should gather themselves together again

to go to battle against the Nephites.

Alma 47:4

Now behold, this was the desire of Amalickiah;

for he being a very subtle man to do evil

therefore he laid the plan in his heart to dethrone the king of the Lamanites.

Alma 47:5

And now he had got the command of those parts of the Lamanites

who were in favor of the king;

and he sought to gain favor of those who were not obedient;

therefore he went forward to the place which was called Onidah,

for thither had all the Lamanites fled;

for they discovered the army coming,

and, supposing that they were coming to destroy them,

therefore they fled to Onidah, to the place of arms.

Alma 47:8

Now it was not Amalickiah's intention

to give them battle according to the commandments of the king;

but behold, it was his intention to gain favor with the armies of the Lamanites,

that he might place himself at their head

and dethrone the king and take possession of the kingdom.

Alma 47:17

Now it was the custom among the Lamanites,

if their chief leader was killed,

to appoint the second leader to be their chief leader.

Alma 47:19

Now, when Lehonti was dead,

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

Alma 47:23

And it came to pass that the king put forth his hand to raise them,

as was the custom with the Lamanites, as a token of peace,

which custom they had taken from the Nephites.

Alma 47:35

And it came to pass that

Amalickiah sought the favor of the queen, and took her unto him to wife;

and thus by his fraud, and by the assistance of his cunning servants,

he obtained the kingdom;

yea, he was acknowledged king throughout all the land,

among all the people of the Lamanites,

who were composed of the Lamanites and the Lemuelites and the Ishmaelites,

and all the dissenters of the Nephites,

from the reign of Nephi down to the present time.

Alma 47:36

Now these dissenters,

having the same instruction and the same information of the Nephites,

yea, having been instructed in the same knowledge of the Lord,

nevertheless, it is strange to relate,

not long after their dissensions

they became more hardened and impenitent,

and more wild, wicked and ferocious than the Lamanites —

drinking in with the traditions of the Lamanites;

giving way to indolence, and all manner of lasciviousness;

yea, entirely forgetting the Lord their God.

Alma 48:1

And now it came to pass that,

as soon as Amalickiah had obtained the kingdom

he began to inspire the hearts of the Lamanites against the people of Nephi;

yea, he did appoint men to speak

unto the Lamanites from their towers,

against the Nephites.

Alma 48:2

And thus he did inspire their hearts against the Nephites,

insomuch that in the latter end of the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges,

he having accomplished his designs thus far,

yea, having been made king over the Lamanites,

he sought also to reign over all the land,

yea, and all the people who were in the land,

the Nephites as well as the Lamanites.

Alma 48:3

Therefore he had accomplished his design,

for he had hardened the hearts of the Lamanites and blinded their minds,

and stirred them up to anger,

insomuch that he had gathered together a numerous host

to go to battle against the Nephites.

Alma 48:21

But, as I have said, in the latter end of the nineteenth year,

yea, notwithstanding their peace amongst themselves,

they were compelled reluctantly to contend with their brethren, the Lamanites.

Alma 48:22

Yea, and in fine, their wars never did cease for the space of many years

with the Lamanites,

notwithstanding their much reluctance.

Alma 48:23

Now, they were sorry to take up arms against the Lamanites,

because they did not delight in the shedding of blood;

yea, and this was not all —

they were sorry to be the means of sending so many of their brethren

out of this world into an eternal world, unprepared to meet their God.

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 49:1

And now it came to pass in the eleventh month of the nineteenth year,

on the tenth day of the month,

the armies of the Lamanites were seen approaching

towards the land of Ammonihah.

Alma 49:2

And behold, the city had been rebuilt,

and Moroni had stationed an army by the borders of the city,

and they had cast up dirt round about

to shield them from the arrows and the stones of the Lamanites;

for behold, they fought with stones and with arrows.

Alma 49:3

Behold, I said that the city of Ammonihah had been rebuilt.

I say unto you, yea, that it was in part rebuilt;

and because the Lamanites had destroyed it once

because of the iniquity of the people,

they supposed that it would again become an easy prey for them.

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 49:5

Now at this time the chief captains of the Lamanites were astonished exceedingly,

because of the wisdom of the Nephites in preparing their places of security.

Alma 49:6

Now the leaders of the Lamanites had supposed,

because of the greatness of their numbers,

yea, they supposed that they should be privileged

to come upon them as they had hitherto done;

yea, and they had also prepared themselves with shields, and with breastplates;

and they had also prepared themselves with garments of skins,

yea, very thick garments to cover their nakedness.

Alma 49:8

But behold, to their uttermost astonishment,

they were prepared for them, in a manner

which never had been known among the children of Lehi.

Now they were prepared for the Lamanites,

to battle after the manner of the instructions of Moroni.

Alma 49:9

And it came to pass that the Lamanites, or the Amalickiahites,

were exceedingly astonished at their manner of preparation for war.

Alma 49:10

Now, if king Amalickiah had come down out of the land of Nephi,

at the head of his army,

perhaps he would have caused

the Lamanites to have attacked the Nephites at the city of Ammonihah;

for behold, he did care not for the blood of his people.

Alma 49:11

But behold, Amalickiah did not come down himself to battle.

And behold, his chief captains durst not attack

the Nephites at the city of Ammonihah,

for Moroni had altered the management of affairs among the Nephites,

insomuch that the Lamanites were disappointed in their places of retreat

and they could not come upon them.

Alma 49:16

And behold, Moroni had appointed Lehi

to be chief captain over the men of that city;

and it was that same Lehi who fought with the Lamanites

in the valley on the east of the river Sidon.

Alma 49:17

And now behold it came to pass, that

when the Lamanites had found that Lehi commanded the city

they were again disappointed,

for they feared Lehi exceedingly;

nevertheless their chief captains had sworn with an oath to attack the city;

therefore, they brought up their armies.

Alma 49:18

Now behold, the Lamanites could not get into their forts of security

by any other way save by the entrance,

because of the highness of the bank which had been thrown up,

and the depth of the ditch which had been dug round about,

save it were by the 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 49:21

And it came to pass that

the captains of the Lamanites brought up their armies

before the place of entrance,

and began to contend with the Nephites,

to get into their place of security;

but behold, they were driven back from time to time,

insomuch that they were slain with an immense slaughter.

Alma 49:23

Thus the Nephites had all power over their enemies;

and thus the Lamanites did attempt to destroy the Nephites

until their chief captains were all slain;

yea, and more than a thousand of the Lamanites were slain;

while, on the other hand,

there was not a single soul of the Nephites which was slain.

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.

Alma 49:25

And it came to pass, that when the Lamanites saw

that their chief captains were all slain

they fled into the wilderness.

And it came to pass that they returned to the land of Nephi,

to inform their king, Amalickiah, who was a Nephite by birth,

concerning their great loss.