Unit 81

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25 occurrences in 18 verses

3 Nephi 3:1, 9, 12, 14, 18, 23,

3 Nephi 4:1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 15, 21, 24, 26, 27, 30,

3 Nephi 5:7

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 3:9

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 3:12

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 3:18

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 3:23

and the land which was appointed was the land of Zarahemla,

and the land which was between the land Zarahemla and the land Bountiful,

yea, to the line which was between the land Bountiful and the land Desolation.

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 4:3

and the robbers could not exist

save it were in the wilderness,

for the want of food;

for the Nephites had left their lands desolate,

and had gathered their flocks and their herds and all their substance,

and they were in one body.

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 4:11

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 4:12

And notwithstanding the threatenings and the oaths which Giddianhi had made,

behold, the Nephites did beat them,

insomuch that they did fall back from before them.

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 4:21

and the Nephites were continually marching out by day and by night,

and falling upon their armies,

and cutting them off by thousands and by tens of thousands.

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 4:26

and the robbers who were on the south

were also cut off in their places of retreat.

And all these things were done by command of Gidgiddoni.

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 4:30

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 5:7

And thus had the twenty and second year passed away,

and the twenty and third year also,

and the twenty and fourth, and the twenty and fifth;

and thus had twenty and five years passed away.