Unit 81
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85 occurrences in 43 verses
3 Nephi 3:4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26,
3 Nephi 4:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33,
3 Nephi 5:1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 13, 26
3 Nephi 3:4
And I, knowing of their unconquerable spirit,
having proved them in the field of battle,
and knowing of their everlasting hatred towards you
because of the many wrongs which ye have done unto them,
therefore if they should come down against you
they would visit you with utter destruction.
3 Nephi 3:6
Therefore I write unto you,
desiring that ye would yield up unto this my people,
your cities, your lands, and your possessions,
rather than that they should visit you with the sword
and that destruction should come upon you.
3 Nephi 3:8
And behold, I swear unto you,
if ye will do this, with an oath, ye shall not be destroyed;
but if ye will not do this, I swear unto you with an oath,
that on the morrow month I will command
that my armies shall come down against you,
and they shall not stay their hand and shall spare not,
but shall slay you, and shall let fall the sword upon you
even until ye shall become extinct.
3 Nephi 3:9
And behold, I am Giddianhi;
and I am the governor of this the secret society of Gadianton;
which society and the works thereof I know to be good;
and they are of ancient date
and they have been handed down unto us.
3 Nephi 3:11
And now it came to pass when Lachoneus received this epistle
he was exceedingly astonished, because of the boldness of Giddianhi
demanding the possession of the land of the Nephites,
and also of threatening the people
and avenging the wrongs of those that had received no wrong,
save it were they had wronged themselves
by dissenting away unto those wicked and abominable robbers.
3 Nephi 3:13
Yea, he sent a proclamation among all the people,
that they should gather together their women, and their children,
their flocks and their herds, and all their substance,
save it were their land, unto one place.
3 Nephi 3:16
And so great and marvelous were the words and prophecies of Lachoneus
that they did cause fear to come upon all the people;
and they did exert themselves in their might
to do according to the words of Lachoneus.
3 Nephi 3:21
But Gidgiddoni saith unto them:
The Lord forbid;
for if we should go up against them
the Lord would deliver us into their hands;
therefore we will prepare ourselves in the center of our lands,
and we will gather all our armies together,
and we will not go against them,
but we will wait till they shall come against us;
therefore as the Lord liveth,
if we do this he will deliver them into our hands.
3 Nephi 3:22
And it came to pass in the seventeenth year, in the latter end of the year,
the proclamation of Lachoneus had gone forth throughout all the face of the land,
and they had taken their horses, and their chariots,
and their cattle, and all their flocks, and their herds,
and their grain, and all their substance,
and did march forth by thousands and by tens of thousands,
until they had all gone forth to the place which had been appointed
that they should gather themselves together,
to defend themselves against their enemies.
3 Nephi 3:24
And there were a great many thousand people who were called Nephites,
who did gather themselves together in this land.
Now Lachoneus did cause
that they should gather themselves together in the land southward,
because of the great curse which was upon the land northward.
3 Nephi 3:25
And they did fortify themselves against their enemies;
and they did dwell in one land, and in one body,
and they did fear the words which had been spoken by Lachoneus,
insomuch that they did repent of all their sins;
and they did put up their prayers unto the Lord their God,
that he would deliver them
in the time that their enemies should come down against them to battle.
3 Nephi 3:26
And they were exceedingly sorrowful because of their enemies.
And Gidgiddoni did cause that they should make weapons of war of every kind,
and they should be strong with armor, and with shields, and with bucklers,
after the manner of his instruction.
3 Nephi 4:3
And the robbers could not exist
save it were in the wilderness,
for the want of food;
for the Nephites had left their lands desolate,
and had gathered their flocks and their herds and all their substance,
and they were in one body.
3 Nephi 4:4
Therefore, there was no chance for the robbers to plunder and to obtain food,
save it were to come up in open battle against the Nephites;
and the Nephites being in one body,
and having so great a number,
and having reserved for themselves provisions,
and horses and cattle, and flocks of every kind,
that they might subsist for the space of seven years,
in the which time they did hope
to destroy the robbers from off the face of the land;
and thus the eighteenth year did pass away.
3 Nephi 4:5
And it came to pass that in the nineteenth year
Giddianhi found that it was expedient
that he should go up to battle against the Nephites,
for there was no way that they could subsist
save it were to plunder and rob and murder.
3 Nephi 4:6
And they durst not spread themselves upon the face of the land
insomuch that they could raise grain,
lest the Nephites should come upon them and slay them;
therefore Giddianhi gave commandment unto his armies
that in this year they should go up to battle against the Nephites.
3 Nephi 4:7
And it came to pass that they did come up to battle;
and it was in the sixth month;
and behold, great and terrible was the day that they did come up to battle;
and they were girded about after the manner of robbers;
and they had a lamb-skin about their loins,
and they were dyed in blood,
and their heads were shorn,
and they had head-plates upon them;
and great and terrible was the appearance of the armies of Giddianhi,
because of their armor, and because of their being dyed in blood.
3 Nephi 4:8
And it came to pass that the armies of the Nephites,
when they saw the appearance of the army of Giddianhi,
had all fallen to the earth, and did lift their cries to the Lord their God,
that he would spare them and deliver them out of the hands of their enemies.
3 Nephi 4:9
And it came to pass that when the armies of Giddianhi saw this
they began to shout with a loud voice, because of their joy,
for they had supposed that the Nephites had fallen with fear
because of the terror of their armies.
3 Nephi 4:10
But in this thing they were disappointed,
for the Nephites did not fear them;
but they did fear their God and did supplicate him for protection;
therefore, when the armies of Giddianhi did rush upon them
they were prepared to meet them;
yea, in the strength of the Lord they did receive them.
3 Nephi 4:12
And notwithstanding the threatenings and the oaths which Giddianhi had made,
behold, the Nephites did beat them,
insomuch that they did fall back from before them.
3 Nephi 4:13
And it came to pass that Gidgiddoni commanded
that his armies should pursue them as far as the borders of the wilderness,
and that they should not spare any that should fall into their hands by the way;
and thus they did pursue them and did slay them, to the borders of the wilderness,
even until they had fulfilled the commandment of Gidgiddoni.
3 Nephi 4:15
And it came to pass that
the armies of the Nephites did return again to their place of security.
And it came to pass that this nineteenth year did pass away,
and the robbers did not come again to battle;
neither did they come again in the twentieth year.
3 Nephi 4:16
And in the twenty and first year they did not come up to battle,
but they came up on all sides to lay siege round about the people of Nephi;
for they did suppose that
if they should cut off the people of Nephi from their lands,
and should hem them in on every side,
and if they should cut them off from all their outward privileges,
that they could cause them to yield themselves up according to their wishes.
3 Nephi 4:17
Now they had appointed unto themselves another leader,
whose name was Zemnarihah;
therefore it was Zemnarihah that did cause that this siege should take place.
3 Nephi 4:18
But behold, this was an advantage to the Nephites;
for it was impossible for the robbers to lay siege sufficiently long
to have any effect upon the Nephites,
because of their much provision which they had laid up in store,
3 Nephi 4:19
And because of the scantiness of provisions among the robbers;
for behold, they had nothing save it were meat for their subsistence,
which meat they did obtain in the wilderness;
3 Nephi 4:23
And it came to pass that Zemnarihah did give command unto his people
that they should withdraw themselves from the siege,
and march into the furthermost parts of the land northward.
3 Nephi 4:25
And this did they do in the night-time,
and got on their march beyond the robbers,
so that on the morrow, when the robbers began their march,
they were met by the armies of the Nephites
both in their front and in their rear.
3 Nephi 4:28
And their leader, Zemnarihah, was taken and hanged upon a tree,
yea, even upon the top thereof until he was dead.
And when they had hanged him until he was dead
they did fell the tree to the earth,
and did cry with a loud voice, saying:
3 Nephi 4:29
May the Lord preserve his people in righteousness and in holiness of heart,
that they may cause to be felled to the earth all who shall seek to slay them
because of power and secret combinations,
even as this man hath been felled to the earth.
3 Nephi 4:30
And they did rejoice and cry again with one voice, saying:
May the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
protect this people in righteousness,
so long as they shall call on the name of their God for protection.
3 Nephi 4:31
And it came to pass that they did break forth, all as one,
in singing, and praising their God
for the great thing which he had done for them,
in preserving them from falling into the hands of their enemies.
3 Nephi 4:32
Yea, they did cry:
Hosanna to the Most High God.
And they did cry:
Blessed be the name of the Lord God Almighty, the Most High God.
3 Nephi 4:33
And their hearts were swollen with joy,
unto the gushing out of many tears,
because of the great goodness of God
in delivering them out of the hands of their enemies;
and they knew it was because of their repentance and their humility
that they had been delivered from an everlasting destruction.
3 Nephi 5:1
And now behold, there was not a living soul among all the people of the Nephites
who did doubt in the least
the words of all the holy prophets who had spoken;
for they knew that it must needs be that they must be fulfilled.
3 Nephi 5:2
And they knew that it must be expedient that Christ had come,
because of the many signs which had been given,
according to the words of the prophets;
and because of the things which had come to pass already
they knew that it must needs be that all things should come to pass
according to that which had been spoken.
3 Nephi 5:3
Therefore they did forsake all their sins,
and their abominations, and their whoredoms,
and did serve God with all diligence day and night.
3 Nephi 5:4
And now it came to pass that when they had taken all the robbers prisoners,
insomuch that none did escape who were not slain,
they did cast their prisoners into prison,
and did cause the word of God to be preached unto them;
and as many as would repent of their sins
and enter into a covenant that they would murder no more
were set at liberty.
3 Nephi 5:6
And thus they did put an end
to all those wicked, and secret, and abominable combinations,
in the which there was so much wickedness, and so many murders committed.
3 Nephi 5:8
And there had many things transpired
which, in the eyes of some, would be great and marvelous;
nevertheless, they cannot all be written in this book;
yea, this book cannot contain even a hundredth part of what was done
among so many people in the space of twenty and five years;
3 Nephi 5:13
Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
I have been called of him to declare his word among his people,
that they might have everlasting life.
3 Nephi 5:26
And then shall they know their Redeemer,
who is Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
and then shall they be gathered in from the four quarters of the earth
unto their own lands, from whence they have been dispersed;
yea, as the Lord liveth so shall it be.
Amen.
