Unit 81
of the
53 occurrences in 36 verses
3 Nephi 3:1, 2, 4, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 24,
3 Nephi 4:1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 32, 33,
3 Nephi 5:1, 2, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26
3 Nephi 3:1
And now it came to pass that
in the sixteenth year from the coming of Christ,
Lachoneus, the governor of the land, received an epistle
from the leader and the governor of this band of robbers;
and these were the words which were written, saying:
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 3:4
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 3:11
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 3:14
And he caused that fortifications should be built round about them,
and the strength thereof should be exceedingly great.
And he caused that armies,
both of the Nephites and of the Lamanites,
or of all them who were numbered among the Nephites,
should be placed as guards round about to watch them,
and to guard them from the robbers day and night.
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 3:17
And it came to pass that
Lachoneus did appoint chief captains over all the armies of the Nephites,
to command them at the time
that the robbers should come down out of the wilderness against them.
3 Nephi 3:18
Now the chiefest among all the chief captains
and the great commander of all the armies of the Nephites was appointed,
and his name was Gidgiddoni.
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 4:1
And it came to pass that in the latter end of the eighteenth year
those armies of robbers had prepared for battle,
and began to come down and to sally forth from the hills,
and out of the mountains, and the wilderness,
and their strongholds, and their secret places,
and began to take possession of the lands,
both which were in the land south and which were in the land north,
and began to take possession of all the lands
which had been deserted by the Nephites,
and the cities which had been left desolate.
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 4:6
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 4:13
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 4:19
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 4:22
And thus it became the desire of the people of Zemnarihah
to withdraw from their design,
because of the great destruction which came upon them by night and by day.
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 4:24
And now, Gidgiddoni being aware of their design,
and knowing of their weakness because of the want of food,
and the great slaughter which had been made among them,
therefore he did send out his armies in the night-time,
and did cut off the way of their retreat,
and did place his armies in the way of their retreat.
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 4:32
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 5:17
And then I do make a record of the things
which I have seen with mine own eyes.
3 Nephi 5:19
And now I make an end of my saying, which is of myself,
and proceed to give my account of the things which have been before me.
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 5:23
Yea, and surely shall he again bring a remnant of the seed of Joseph
to the knowledge of the Lord their God.
3 Nephi 5:24
And as surely as the Lord liveth,
will he gather in from the four quarters of the earth
all the remnant of the seed of Jacob,
who are scattered abroad upon all the face of the earth.
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.
