Unit 81

people

22 occurrences in 21 verses

3 Nephi 3:2, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 20, 24,

3 Nephi 4:11, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30,

3 Nephi 5:1, 8, 9, 12, 13, 20

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 3:6

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 3:10

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 3:16

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 3:20

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 3:24

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 4:11

And the battle commenced in this the sixth month;

and great and terrible was the battle thereof,

yea, great and terrible was the slaughter thereof,

insomuch that there never was known so great a slaughter

among all the people of Lehi since he left Jerusalem.

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 4:22

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 4:29

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 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 5:8

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 5:9

But behold there are records which do contain all the proceedings of this people;

and a shorter but true account was given by Nephi.

3 Nephi 5:12

And behold, I am called Mormon,

being called after the land of Mormon,

the land in which Alma did establish the church among the people,

yea, the first church which was established among them after their transgression.

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 5:20

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.