Unit 69

yea

13 occurrences in 10 verses

Alma 54:7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16,

Alma 55:1, 3, 17, 31

Alma 54:7

yea, I would tell you these things

if ye were capable of hearkening unto them;

yea, I would tell you concerning that awful hell

that awaits to receive such murderers as thou and thy brother have been,

except ye repent and withdraw your murderous purposes,

and return with your armies to your own lands.

Alma 54:9

And now behold, we are prepared to receive you;

yea, and except you withdraw your purposes,

behold, ye will pull down

the wrath of that God whom you have rejected

upon you,

even to your utter destruction.

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 54:12

And behold, if ye do not this,

I will come against you with my armies;

yea, even I will arm my women and my children,

and I will come against you,

and I will follow you even into your own land,

which is the land of our first inheritance;

yea, and it shall be blood for blood, yea, life for life;

and I will give you battle

even until you are destroyed from off the face of the earth.

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 54:16

I am Ammoron, the king of the Lamanites;

I am the brother of Amalickiah whom ye have murdered.

Behold, I will avenge his blood upon you,

yea, and I will come upon you with my armies

for I fear not your threatenings.

Alma 55:1

Now it came to pass that when Moroni had received this epistle

he was more angry,

because he knew that Ammoron had a perfect knowledge of his fraud;

yea, he knew that Ammoron knew that it was not a just cause

that had caused him to wage a war against the people of Nephi.

Alma 55:3

Behold, I know the place where the Lamanites do guard my people

whom they have taken prisoners;

and as Ammoron would not grant unto me mine epistle,

behold, I will give unto him according to my words;

yea, I will seek death among them until they shall sue for peace.

Alma 55:17

yea, even to their women, and all those of their children,

as many as were able to use a weapon of war,

when Moroni had armed all those prisoners;

and all those things were done in a profound silence.

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.