Unit 76
of the
128 occurrences in 69 verses
Helaman 3:1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37,
Helaman 4:2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 20, 24, 26,
Helaman 5:2, 6, 11, 12, 19, 21, 27, 31, 34, 44, 47, 50,
Helaman 6:1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 38, 39, 41
Helaman 3:1
And now it came to pass in the forty and third year of the reign of the judges,
there was no contention among the people of Nephi
save it were a little pride which was in the church,
which did cause some little dissensions among the people,
which affairs were settled in the ending of the forty and third year.
Helaman 3:3
And it came to pass in the forty and sixth, yea,
there was much contention and many dissensions;
in the which there were an exceedingly great many
who departed out of the land of Zarahemla,
and went forth unto the land northward to inherit the land.
Helaman 3:5
Yea, and even they did spread forth into all parts of the land,
into whatever parts it had not been rendered desolate and without timber,
because of the many inhabitants who had before inherited the land.
Helaman 3:6
And now no part of the land was desolate, save it were for timber;
but because of the greatness of the destruction of the people
who had before inhabited the land it was called desolate.
Helaman 3:7
And there being but little timber upon the face of the land,
nevertheless the people who went forth
became exceedingly expert in the working of cement;
therefore they did build houses of cement, in the which they did dwell.
Helaman 3:8
And it came to pass that they did multiply and spread,
and did go forth from the land southward to the land northward,
and did spread insomuch that they began to cover the face of the whole earth,
from the sea south to the sea north,
from the sea west to the sea east.
Helaman 3:9
And the people who were in the land northward
did dwell in tents, and in houses of cement,
and they did suffer whatsoever tree should spring up upon the face of the land
that it should grow up,
that in time they might have timber to build their houses,
yea, their cities, and their temples, and their synagogues, and their sanctuaries,
and all manner of their buildings.
Helaman 3:12
And it came to pass that
there were many of the people of Ammon,
who were Lamanites by birth,
did also go forth into this land.
Helaman 3:13
And now there are many records kept
of the proceedings of this people, by many of this people,
which are particular and very large, concerning them.
Helaman 3:14
But behold, a hundredth part of the proceedings of this people,
yea, the account of the Lamanites and of the Nephites,
and their wars, and contentions, and dissensions,
and their preaching, and their prophecies,
and their shipping and their building of ships,
and their building of temples, and of synagogues and their sanctuaries,
and their righteousness, and their wickedness,
and their murders, and their robbings, and their plundering,
and all manner of abominations and whoredoms,
cannot be contained in this work.
Helaman 3:16
And they have been handed down from one generation to another by the Nephites,
even until they have fallen into transgression
and have been murdered, plundered, and hunted,
and driven forth, and slain,
and scattered upon the face of the earth,
and mixed with the Lamanites
until they are no more called the Nephites,
becoming wicked, and wild, and ferocious,
yea, even becoming Lamanites.
Helaman 3:18
The forty and sixth year of the reign of the judges ended;
Helaman 3:22
And it came to pass that the wars and contentions began to cease,
in a small degree, among the people of the Nephites,
in the latter end of the forty and eighth year
of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
Helaman 3:23
And it came to pass in the forty and ninth year of the reign of the judges,
there was continual peace established in the land,
all save it were the secret combinations
which Gadianton the robber had established
in the more settled parts of the land,
which at that time were not known
unto those who were at the head of government;
therefore they were not destroyed out of the land.
Helaman 3:25
And so great was the prosperity of the church,
and so many the blessings which were poured out upon the people,
that even the high priests and the teachers
were themselves astonished beyond measure.
Helaman 3:26
And it came to pass that the work of the Lord did prosper
unto the baptizing and uniting to the church of God, many souls,
yea, even tens of thousands.
Helaman 3:29
Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God,
which is quick and powerful,
which shall divide asunder
all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil,
and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course
across that everlasting gulf of misery
which is prepared to engulf the wicked—
Helaman 3:32
And it came to pass that there was peace and exceedingly great joy
in the remainder of the forty and ninth year;
yea, and also there was continual peace and great joy
in the fiftieth year of the reign of the judges.
Helaman 3:33
And in the fifty and first year of the reign of the judges
there was peace also,
save it were the pride which began to enter into the church —
not into the church of God,
but into the hearts of the people
who professed to belong to the church of God —
Helaman 3:34
And they were lifted up in pride,
even to the persecution of many of their brethren.
Now this was a great evil,
which did cause the more humble part of the people
to suffer great persecutions, and to wade through much affliction.
Helaman 3:36
And it came to pass that the fifty and second year ended in peace also,
save it were the exceedingly great pride
which had gotten into the hearts of the people;
and it was because of their exceedingly great riches and their prosperity in the land;
and it did grow upon them from day to day.
Helaman 3:37
And it came to pass in the fifty and third year of the reign of the judges,
Helaman died, and his eldest son Nephi began to reign in his stead.
And it came to pass that he did fill the judgment–seat with justice and equity;
yea, he did keep the commandments of God,
and did walk in the ways of his father.
Helaman 4:2
And the rebellious part were slain and driven out of the land,
and they did go unto the king of the Lamanites.
Helaman 4:4
But it came to pass in the fifty and sixth year of the reign of the judges,
there were dissenters who went up from the Nephites unto the Lamanites;
and they succeeded with those others
in stirring them up to anger against the Nephites;
and they were all that year preparing for war.
Helaman 4:5
And in the fifty and seventh year
they did come down against the Nephites to battle,
and they did commence the work of death;
yea, insomuch that in the fifty and eighth year of the reign of the judges
they succeeded in obtaining possession of the land of Zarahemla;
yea, and also all the lands, even unto the land which was near the land Bountiful.
Helaman 4:8
And thus those dissenters of the Nephites,
with the help of a numerous army of the Lamanites,
had obtained all the possession of the Nephites
which was in the land southward.
And all this was done in the fifty and eighth and ninth years
of the reign of the judges.
Helaman 4:9
And it came to pass in the sixtieth year of the reign of the judges,
Moronihah did succeed with his armies in obtaining many parts of the land;
yea, they regained many cities which had fallen into the hands of the Lamanites.
Helaman 4:10
And it came to pass in the sixty and first year of the reign of the judges
they succeeded in regaining even the half of all their possessions.
Helaman 4:11
Now this great loss of the Nephites,
and the great slaughter which was among them,
would not have happened
had it not been for their wickedness
and their abomination which was among them;
yea, and it was among those also who professed to belong to the church of God.
Helaman 4:12
And it was because of the pride of their hearts,
because of their exceeding riches,
yea, it was because of their oppression to the poor,
withholding their food from the hungry,
withholding their clothing from the naked,
and smiting their humble brethren upon the cheek,
making a mock of that which was sacred,
denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation,
murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery,
rising up in great contentions,
and deserting away into the land of Nephi, among the Lamanites—
Helaman 4:17
And thus ended the sixty and first year of the reign of the judges.
Helaman 4:18
And it came to pass in the sixty and second year of the reign of the judges,
that Moronihah could obtain no more possessions over the Lamanites.
Helaman 4:20
And it came to pass, because of the greatness of the number of the Lamanites
the Nephites were in great fear, lest they should be overpowered,
and trodden down, and slain, and destroyed.
Helaman 4:24
And they saw that they had become weak, like unto their brethren, the Lamanites,
and that the Spirit of the Lord did no more preserve them;
yea, it had withdrawn from them
because the Spirit of the Lord doth not dwell in unholy temples—
Helaman 4:26
For behold, they saw that the strength of the Lamanites
was as great as their strength, even man for man.
And thus had they fallen into this great transgression;
yea, thus had they become weak, because of their transgression,
in the space of not many years.
Helaman 5:2
For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people,
and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good,
therefore they were ripening for destruction,
for the laws had become corrupted.
Helaman 5:6
Behold, my sons,
I desire that ye should remember to keep the commandments of God;
and I would that ye should declare unto the people these words.
Behold, I have given unto you the names of our first parents
who came out of the land of Jerusalem;
and this I have done
that when you remember your names
ye may remember them;
and when ye remember them
ye may remember their works;
and when ye remember their works
ye may know how that it is said, and also written, that they were good.
Helaman 5:11
And he hath power given unto him from the Father
to redeem them from their sins because of repentance;
therefore he hath sent his angels
to declare the tidings of the conditions of repentance,
which bringeth unto the power of the Redeemer,
unto the salvation of their souls.
Helaman 5:12
And now, my sons, remember, remember
that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer,
who is Christ, the Son of God,
that ye must build your foundation;
that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds,
yea, his shafts in the whirlwind,
yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you,
it shall have no power over you
to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo,
because of the rock upon which ye are built,
which is a sure foundation,
a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.
Helaman 5:19
Therefore they did speak unto the great astonishment of the Lamanites,
to the convincing them,
insomuch that there were eight thousand of the Lamanites
who were in the land of Zarahemla and round about
baptized unto repentance,
and were convinced of the wickedness of the traditions of their fathers.
Helaman 5:21
And it came to pass that
they were taken by an army of the Lamanites and cast into prison;
yea, even in that same prison
in which Ammon and his brethren were cast by the servants of Limhi.
Helaman 5:27
And behold, when they had said these words,
the earth shook exceedingly,
and the walls of the prison did shake
as if they were about to tumble to the earth;
but behold, they did not fall.
And behold, they that were in the prison
were Lamanites and Nephites who were dissenters.
Helaman 5:31
And notwithstanding the mildness of the voice,
behold the earth shook exceedingly,
and the walls of the prison trembled again,
as if it were about to tumble to the earth;
and behold the cloud of darkness, which had overshadowed them, did not disperse —
Helaman 5:34
And it came to pass that the Lamanites could not flee
because of the cloud of darkness which did overshadow them;
yea, and also they were immovable
because of the fear which did come upon them.
Helaman 5:44
And Nephi and Lehi were in the midst of them;
yea, they were encircled about;
yea, they were as if in the midst of a flaming fire,
yet it did harm them not,
neither did it take hold upon the walls of the prison;
and they were filled with that joy which is unspeakable and full of glory.
Helaman 5:47
Peace, peace be unto you,
because of your faith in my Well Beloved,
who was from the foundation of the world.
Helaman 5:50
And it came to pass that they did go forth, and did minister unto the people,
declaring throughout all the regions round about
all the things which they had heard and seen,
insomuch that the more part of the Lamanites were convinced of them,
because of the greatness of the evidences which they had received.
Helaman 6:1
And it came to pass that when the sixty and second year
of the reign of the judges had ended,
all these things had happened
and the Lamanites had become, the more part of them, a righteous people,
insomuch that their righteousness did exceed that of the Nephites,
because of their firmness and their steadiness in the faith.
Helaman 6:2
For behold, there were many of the Nephites
who had become hardened and impenitent and grossly wicked,
insomuch that they did reject the word of God
and all the preaching and prophesying which did come among them.
Helaman 6:3
Nevertheless, the people of the church did have great joy
because of the conversion of the Lamanites,
yea, because of the church of God, which had been established among them.
And they did fellowship one with another,
and did rejoice one with another,
and did have great joy.
Helaman 6:4
And it came to pass that
many of the Lamanites did come down into the land of Zarahemla,
and did declare unto the people of the Nephites the manner of their conversion,
and did exhort them to faith and repentance.
Helaman 6:6
And it came to pass that many of the Lamanites did go into the land northward;
and also Nephi and Lehi went into the land northward, to preach unto the people.
And thus ended the sixty and third year.
Helaman 6:7
And behold, there was peace in all the land,
insomuch that the Nephites did go into whatsoever part of the land they would,
whether among the Nephites or the Lamanites.
Helaman 6:15
And it came to pass that in the sixty and sixth year of the reign of the judges,
behold, Cezoram was murdered by an unknown hand
as he sat upon the judgment–seat.
And it came to pass that in the same year,
that his son, who had been appointed by the people in his stead,
was also murdered.
And thus ended the sixty and sixth year.
Helaman 6:16
And in the commencement of the sixty and seventh year
the people began to grow exceedingly wicked again.
Helaman 6:17
For behold, the Lord had blessed them so long with the riches of the world
that they had not been stirred up to anger, to wars, nor to bloodshed;
therefore they began to set their hearts upon their riches;
yea, they began to seek to get gain
that they might be lifted up one above another;
therefore they began to commit secret murders, and to rob and to plunder,
that they might get gain.
Helaman 6:18
And now behold, those murderers and plunderers were a band
who had been formed by Kishkumen and Gadianton.
And now it had come to pass that
there were many, even among the Nephites, of Gadianton's band.
But behold, they were more numerous
among the more wicked part of the Lamanites.
And they were called Gadianton's robbers and murderers.
Helaman 6:20
And now it came to pass that
when the Lamanites found that there were robbers among them
they were exceedingly sorrowful;
and they did use every means in their power
to destroy them off the face of the earth.
Helaman 6:21
But behold, Satan did stir up the hearts of the more part of the Nephites,
insomuch that they did unite with those bands of robbers,
and did enter into their covenants and their oaths,
that they would protect and preserve one another
in whatsoever difficult circumstances they should be placed,
that they should not suffer for their murders,
and their plunderings, and their stealings.
Helaman 6:26
Now behold, those secret oaths and covenants did not come forth unto Gadianton
from the records which were delivered unto Helaman;
but behold, they were put into the heart of Gadianton
by that same being who did entice our first parents
to partake of the forbidden fruit—
Helaman 6:28
And also it is that same being who put it into the hearts of the people
to build a tower sufficiently high that they might get to heaven.
And it was that same being
who led on the people who came from that tower into this land;
who spread the works of darkness and abominations
over all the face of the land,
until he dragged the people down
to an entire destruction, and to an everlasting hell.
Helaman 6:30
And behold, it is he who is the author of all sin.
And behold, he doth carry on his works of darkness and secret murder,
and doth hand down their plots, and their oaths,
and their covenants, and their plans of awful wickedness,
from generation to generation
according as he can get hold upon the hearts of the children of men.
Helaman 6:31
And now behold, he had got great hold upon the hearts of the Nephites;
yea, insomuch that they had become exceedingly wicked;
yea, the more part of them had turned out of the way of righteousness,
and did trample under their feet the commandments of God,
and did turn unto their own ways,
and did build up unto themselves idols of their gold and their silver.
Helaman 6:32
And it came to pass that all these iniquities did come unto them
in the space of not many years,
insomuch that a more part of it had come unto them
in the sixty and seventh year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
Helaman 6:33
And they did grow in their iniquities in the sixty and eighth year also,
to the great sorrow and lamentation of the righteous.
Helaman 6:35
And thus we see that the Spirit of the Lord began to withdraw from the Nephites,
because of the wickedness and the hardness of their hearts.
Helaman 6:38
And it came to pass on the other hand,
that the Nephites did build them up and support them,
beginning at the more wicked part of them,
until they had overspread all the land of the Nephites,
and had seduced the more part of the righteous
until they had come down to believe in their works
and partake of their spoils,
and to join with them in their secret murders and combinations.
Helaman 6:39
And thus they did obtain the sole management of the government,
insomuch that they did trample under their feet and smite and rend
and turn their backs upon the poor and the meek, and the humble followers of God.
Helaman 6:41
And it came to pass that thus ended the sixty and eighth year
of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.
