Unit 81

the wilderness

9 occurrences in 8 verses

3 Nephi 3:17, 20,

3 Nephi 4:1, 2, 3, 13, 19, 20

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 3:20

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 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 4:2

But behold, there were no wild beasts nor game in those lands

which had been deserted by the Nephites,

and there was no game for the robbers save it were in the wilderness.

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 4:13

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 4:19

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 4:20

And it came to pass that the wild game became scarce in the wilderness

insomuch that the robbers were about to perish with hunger.