Unit 81

should

31 occurrences in 20 verses

3 Nephi 3:3, 4, 6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26,

3 Nephi 4:5, 6, 13, 16, 17, 23,

3 Nephi 5:2, 14

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 3:12

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 3:14

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 3:17

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 3:21

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 4:5

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 4:13

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 4:16

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 4:23

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 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 5:14

And it hath become expedient

that I, according to the will of God,

that the prayers of those who have gone hence,

who were the holy ones,

should be fulfilled according to their faith,

should make a record of these things which have been done —