Unit 81

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32 occurrences in 25 verses

3 Nephi 3:2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 20, 21, 25,

3 Nephi 4:6, 17, 23, 27, 33,

3 Nephi 5:4, 20, 21, 25, 26

3 Nephi 3:2

Lachoneus, most noble and chief governor of the land,

behold, I write this epistle unto you,

and do give unto you exceedingly great praise

because of your firmness, and also the firmness of your people,

in maintaining that which ye suppose to be your right and liberty;

yea, ye do stand well, as if ye were supported by the hand of a god,

in the defence of your liberty, and your property, and your country,

or that which ye do call so.

3 Nephi 3:3

And it seemeth a pity unto me, most noble Lachoneus,

that ye should be so foolish and vain as to suppose

that ye can stand against so many brave men who are at my command,

who do now at this time stand in their arms,

and do await with great anxiety for the word —

Go down upon the Nephites and destroy them.

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 3:7

Or in other words, yield yourselves up unto us, and unite with us

and become acquainted with our secret works, and become our brethren

that ye may be like unto us — not our slaves,

but our brethren and partners of all our substance.

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 3:10

And I write this epistle unto you, Lachoneus,

and I hope that ye will deliver up your lands and your possessions,

without the shedding of blood,

that this my people may recover their rights and government,

who have dissented away from you because of your wickedness

in retaining from them their rights of government,

and except ye do this, I will avenge their wrongs.

I am Giddianhi.

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 3:12

Now behold, this Lachoneus, the governor, was a just man,

and could not be frightened by the demands and the threatenings of a robber;

therefore he did not hearken to the epistle of Giddianhi, the governor of the robbers,

but he did cause that his people should cry unto the Lord

for strength against the time that the robbers should come down against them.

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 3:15

Yea, he said unto them:

As the Lord liveth,

except ye repent of all your iniquities, and cry unto the Lord,

ye will in no wise be delivered out of the hands of those Gadianton robbers.

3 Nephi 3:20

Now the people said unto Gidgiddoni:

Pray unto the Lord, and let us go up upon the mountains and into the wilderness,

that we may fall upon the robbers and destroy them in their own lands.

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 3:25

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 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 4:17

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 4:23

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 4:27

And there were many thousands

who did yield themselves up prisoners unto the Nephites,

and the remainder of them were slain.

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 5:4

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 5:20

I am Mormon, and a pure descendant of Lehi.

I have reason to bless my God and my Savior Jesus Christ,

that he brought our fathers out of the land of Jerusalem,

(and no one knew it save it were himself

and those whom he brought out of that land)

and that he hath given me and my people

so much knowledge unto the salvation of our souls.

3 Nephi 5:21

Surely he hath blessed the house of Jacob,

and hath been merciful unto the seed of Joseph.

3 Nephi 5:25

And as he hath covenanted with all the house of Jacob,

even so shall the covenant

wherewith he hath covenanted with the house of Jacob

be fulfilled in his own due time,

unto the restoring all the house of Jacob unto the knowledge of the covenant

that he hath covenanted with them.

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.