Unit 81

against the

4 occurrences in 4 verses

3 Nephi 3:12,

3 Nephi 4:4, 5, 6

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 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.