Unit 69

but

17 occurrences in 14 verses

Alma 54:8, 10, 11, 13, 19, 21, 22,

Alma 55:8, 10, 18, 19, 20, 29, 31

Alma 54:8

but as ye have once rejected these things,

and have fought against the people of the Lord,

even so I may expect you will do it again.

Alma 54:10

but, as the Lord liveth,

our armies shall come upon you except ye withdraw,

and ye shall soon be visited with death,

for we will retain our cities and our lands;

yea, and we will maintain our religion and the cause of our God.

Alma 54:11

but behold, it supposeth me that I talk to you concerning these things in vain;

or it supposeth me that thou art a child of hell;

therefore I will close my epistle by telling you

that I will not exchange prisoners, save it be on conditions

that ye will deliver up a man and his wife and his children, for one prisoner;

if this be the case that ye will do it, I will exchange.

Alma 54:13

Behold, I am in my anger, and also my people;

ye have sought to murder us,

and we have only sought to defend ourselves.

but behold, if ye seek to destroy us more

we will seek to destroy you;

yea, and we will seek our land,

the land of our first inheritance.

Alma 54:19

Behold, ye have breathed out many threatenings against me and my people;

but behold, we fear not your threatenings.

Alma 54:21

And as concerning that God whom ye say we have rejected,

behold, we know not such a being; neither do ye;

but if it so be that there is such a being,

we know not but that he hath made us as well as you.

Alma 54:22

And if it so be that there is a devil and a hell,

behold will he not send you there

to dwell with my brother whom ye have murdered,

whom ye have hinted that he hath gone to such a place?

but behold these things matter not.

Alma 55:8

And when it was evening

Laman went to the guards who were over the Nephites,

and behold, they saw him coming and they hailed him;

but he saith unto them:

Fear not;

behold, I am a Lamanite.

Behold, we have escaped from the Nephites, and they sleep;

and behold we have taken of their wine and brought with us.

Alma 55:10

but Laman said unto them:

Let us keep of our wine till we go against the Nephites to battle.

but this saying only made them more desirous to drink of the wine;

Alma 55:18

but had they awakened the Lamanites,

behold they were drunken

and the Nephites could have slain them.

Alma 55:19

but behold, this was not the desire of Moroni;

he did not delight in murder or bloodshed,

but he delighted in the saving of his people from destruction;

and for this cause he might not bring upon him injustice,

he would not fall upon the Lamanites and destroy them in their drunkenness.

Alma 55:20

but he had obtained his desires;

for he had armed those prisoners of the Nephites

who were within the wall of the city,

and had given them power to gain possession

of those parts which were within the walls.

Alma 55:29

Many times did the Lamanites attempt to encircle them about by night,

but in these attempts they did lose many prisoners.

Alma 55:31

but behold, the Nephites were not slow

to remember the Lord their God in this their time of affliction.

They could not be taken in their snares;

yea, they would not partake of their wine,

save they had first given to some of the Lamanite prisoners.