Unit 76

Nephites

34 occurrences in 28 verses

Helaman 3:14, 15, 16, 22, 31,

Helaman 4:3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 19, 20,

Helaman 5:17, 27, 52,

Helaman 6:1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 18, 21, 31, 34, 35, 38

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 3:15

But behold, there are many books and many records of every kind,

and they have been kept chiefly by the Nephites.

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 3:22

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 3:31

And in this year there was continual rejoicing

in the land of Zarahemla, and in all the regions round about,

even in all the land which was possessed by the Nephites.

Helaman 4:3

And it came to pass that they did endeavor

to stir up the Lamanites to war against the Nephites;

but behold, the Lamanites were exceedingly afraid,

insomuch that they would not hearken to the words of those dissenters.

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 4:6

And the Nephites and the armies of Moronihah were driven

even into the land of 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 4:11

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 4:19

Therefore they did abandon their design to obtain the remainder of their lands,

for so numerous were the Lamanites

that it became impossible for the Nephites to obtain more power over them;

therefore Moronihah did employ all his armies

in maintaining those parts which he had taken.

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 5:17

And it came to pass that they did preach with great power,

insomuch that they did confound many of those dissenters

who had gone over from the Nephites,

insomuch that they came forth and did confess their sins

and were baptized unto repentance,

and immediately returned to the Nephites

to endeavor to repair unto them the wrongs which they had done.

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 5:52

And it came to pass that

they did yield up unto the Nephites the lands of their possession.

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 6:4

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 6:7

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 6:8

And it came to pass that the Lamanites did also go whithersoever they would,

whether it were among the Lamanites or among the Nephites;

and thus they did have free intercourse one with another,

to buy and to sell, and to get gain, according to their desire.

Helaman 6:9

And it came to pass that they became exceedingly rich,

both the Lamanites and the Nephites;

and they did have an exceeding plenty of gold, and of silver,

and of all manner of precious metals,

both in the land south and in the land north.

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 6:21

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 6:31

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 6:34

And thus we see that the Nephites did begin to dwindle in unbelief,

and grow in wickedness and abominations,

while the Lamanites began to grow exceedingly in the knowledge of their God;

yea, they did begin to keep his statutes and commandments,

and to walk in truth and uprightness before him.

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.