THE BOOK OF ALMA, The Son of Alma

ALM 0:0 The account of Alma, who was the son
of Alma the first, and Chief Judge
over the people of Nephi, and also the High
Priest over the Church. An account
of the reign of the Judges, and the wars and
contentions among the people. And
also an account of a war between the Nephites
and the Lamanites, according to
the record of Alma, the first and chief Judge.

ALM 1:0 Nehor, an enemy of the church, slays Gideon, and is brought to
judgment
and executed--Priestcraft and persecution--Improved conditions--
Priests and
people equal.

ALM 1:1 Now it came to pass that in the first year
of the reign of the judges
over the people of Nephi, from this time forward,
king Mosiah having gone the
way of all the earth, having warred a good warfare,
walking uprightly before
God, leaving none to reign in his stead; nevertheless
he had established laws,
and they were acknowledged by the people; therefore
they were obliged to abide
by the laws which he had made.

ALM 1:2 And it came
to pass that in the first year of the reign of Alma in the
judgment-seat, there
was a man brought before him to be judged, a man who was
large, and was noted
for his much strength.

ALM 1:3 And he had gone about among the people,
preaching to them that which he
termed to be the word of God, bearing down
against the church; declaring unto
the people that every priest and teacher
ought to become popular; and they
ought not to labor with their hands, but that
they ought to be supported by the
people.

ALM 1:4 And he also testified unto
the people that all mankind should be saved
at the last day, and that they need
not fear nor tremble, but that they might
lift up their heads and rejoice; for
the Lord had created all men, and had also
redeemed all men; and, in the end,
all men should have eternal life.

ALM 1:5 And it came to pass that he did
teach these things so much that many
did believe on his words, even so many
that they began to support him and give
him money.

ALM 1:6 And he began to be
lifted up in the pride of his heart, and to wear
very costly apparel, yea, and
even began to establish a church after the manner
of his preaching.

ALM 1:7
And it came to pass as he was going, to preach to those who believed on
his
word, he met a man who belonged to the church of God, yea, even one of
their
teachers; and he began to contend with him sharply, that he might lead
away the
people of the church; but the man withstood him, admonishing him with
the words
of God.

ALM 1:8 Now the name of the man was Gideon; and it was he who was an
instrument
in the hands of God in delivering the people of Limhi out of
bondage.

ALM 1:9 Now, because Gideon withstood him with the words of God he
was wroth
with Gideon, and drew his sword and began to smite him. Now Gideon
being
stricken with many years, therefore he was not able to withstand his
blows,
therefore he was slain by the sword.

ALM 1:10 And the man who slew him
was taken by the people of the church, and
was brought before Alma, to be
judged according to the crimes which he had
committed.

ALM 1:11 And it came to
pass that he stood before Alma and pleaded for himself
with much boldness.

ALM
1:12 But Alma said unto him: Behold, this is the first time that
priestcraft
has been introduced among this people. And behold, thou art not
only guilty of
priestcraft, but hast endeavored to enforce it by the sword; and
were
priestcraft to be enforced among this people it would prove their entire

destruction.

ALM 1:13 And thou hast shed the blood of a righteous man, yea, a
man who has
done much good among this people; and were we to spare thee his
blood would
come upon us for vengeance.

ALM 1:14 Therefore thou art condemned
to die, according to the law which has
been given us by Mosiah, our last king;
and it has been acknowledged by this
people; therefore this people must abide
by the law.

ALM 1:15 And it came to pass that they took him; and his name was
Nehor; and
they carried him upon the top of the hill Manti, and there he was
caused, or
rather did acknowledge, between the heavens and the earth, that what
he had
taught to the people was contrary to the word of God; and there he
suffered an
ignominious death.

ALM 1:16 Nevertheless, this did not put an end
to the spreading of priestcraft
through the land; for there were many who loved
the vain things of the world,
and they went forth preaching false doctrines;
and this they did for the sake
of riches and honor.

ALM 1:17 Nevertheless,
they durst not lie, if it were known, for fear of the
law, for liars were
punished; therefore they pretended to preach according to
their belief; and now
the law could have no power on any man for his belief.

ALM 1:18 And they durst
not steal, for fear of the law, for such were punished;
neither durst they rob,
nor murder, for he that murdered was punished unto
death.

ALM 1:19 But it came
to pass that whosoever did not belong to the church of God
began to persecute
those that did belong to the church of God, and had taken
upon them the name of
Christ.

ALM 1:20 Yea, they did persecute them, and afflict them with all
manner of
words, and this because of their humility; because they were not
proud in their
own eyes, and because they did impart the word of God, one with
another,
without money and without price.

ALM 1:21 Now there was a strict law
among the people of the church, that there
should not any man, belonging to the
church, arise and persecute those that did
not belong to the church, and that
there should be no persecution among
themselves.

ALM 1:22 Nevertheless, there
were many among them who began to be proud, and
began to contend warmly with
their adversaries, even unto blows; yea, they
would smite one another with
their fists.

ALM 1:23 Now this was in the second year of the reign of Alma,
and it was a
cause of much affliction to the church; yea, it was the cause of
much trial
with the church.

ALM 1:24 For the hearts of many were hardened, and
their names were blotted
out, that they were remembered no more among the
people of God. And also many
withdrew themselves from among them.

ALM 1:25 Now
this was a great trial to those that did stand fast in the faith;
nevertheless,
they were steadfast and immovable in keeping the commandments of
God, and they
bore with patience the persecution which was heaped upon them.

ALM 1:26 And
when the priests left their labor to impart the word of God unto
the people,
the people also left their labors to hear the word of God. And when
the priest
had imparted unto them the word of God they all returned again
diligently unto
their labors; and the priest, not esteeming himself above his
hearers, for the
preacher was no better than the hearer, neither was the
teacher any better than
the learner; and thus they were all equal, and they did
all labor, every man
according to his strength.

ALM 1:27 And they did impart of their substance,
every man according to that
which he had, to the poor, and the needy, and the
sick, and the afflicted; and
they did not wear costly apparel, yet they were
neat and comely.

ALM 1:28 And thus they did establish the affairs of the
church; and thus they
began to have continual peace again, notwithstanding all
their persecutions.

ALM 1:29 And now, because of the steadiness of the church
they began to be
exceedingly rich, having abundance of all things whatsoever
they stood in
need--an abundance of flocks and herds, and fatlings of every
kind, and also
abundance of grain, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious
things, and
abundance of silk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good
homely cloth.

ALM 1:30 And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did
not send away
any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or
that were
sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their
hearts upon
riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young,
both bond and
free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the
church, having
no respect to persons as to those who stood in need.

ALM 1:31
And thus they did prosper and become far more wealthy than those who
did not
belong to their church.

ALM 1:32 For those who did not belong to their church
did indulge themselves in
sorceries, and in idolatry or idleness, and in
babblings, and in envyings and
strife; wearing costly apparel; being lifted up
in the pride of their own eyes;
persecuting, lying, thieving, robbing,
committing whoredoms, and murdering, and
all manner of wickedness;
nevertheless, the law was put in force upon all those
who did transgress it,
inasmuch as it was possible.

ALM 1:33 And it came to pass that by thus
exercising the law upon them, every
man suffering according to that which he
had done, they became more still, and
durst not commit any wickedness if it
were known; therefore, there was much
peace among the people of Nephi until the
fifth year of the reign of the
judges.

ALM 2:0 Amlici seeks to become king--
Rejected by the majority, but is made
king--He is defeated in battle--He joins
the Lamanites--Alma slays Amlici and
routs his forces.

ALM 2:1 And it came to
pass in the commencement of the fifth year of their
reign there began to be a
contention among the people; for a certain man, being
called Amlici, he being a
very cunning man, yea, a wise man as to the wisdom of
the world, he being after
the order of the man that slew Gideon by the sword,
who was executed according
to the law--

ALM 2:2 Now this Amlici had, by his cunning, drawn away much
people after him;
even so much that they began to be very powerful; and they
began to endeavor to
establish Amlici to be a king over the people.

ALM 2:3
Now this was alarming to the people of the church, and also to all
those who
had not been drawn away after the persuasions of Amlici; for they
knew that
according to their law that such things must be established by the
voice of the
people.

ALM 2:4 Therefore, if it were possible that Amlici should gain the
voice of the
people, he, being a wicked man, would deprive them of their rights
and
privileges of the church; for it was his intent to destroy the church of
God.

ALM 2:5 And it came to pass that the people assembled themselves
together
throughout all the land, every man according to his mind, whether it
were for
or against Amlici, in separate bodies, having much dispute and
wonderful
contentions one with another.

ALM 2:6 And thus they did assemble
themselves together to cast in their voices
concerning the matter; and they
were laid before the judges.

ALM 2:7 And it came to pass that the voice of the
people came against Amlici,
that he was not made king over the people.

ALM 2:8
Now this did cause much joy in the hearts of those who were against
him; but
Amlici did stir up those who were in his favor to anger against those
who were
not in his favor.

ALM 2:9 And it came to pass that they gathered themselves
together, and did
consecrate Amlici to be their king.

ALM 2:10 Now when Amlici
was made king over them he commanded them that they
should take up arms against
their brethren; and this he did that he might
subject them to him.

ALM 2:11
Now the people of Amlici were distinguished by the name of Amlici,
being called
Amlicites; and the remainder were called Nephites, or the people
of God.

ALM
2:12 Therefore the people of the Nephites were aware of the intent of the

Amlicites, and therefore they did prepare to meet them; yea, they did arm

themselves with swords, and with cimeters, and with bows, and with arrows, and

with stones, and with slings, and with all manner of weapons of war, of every

kind.

ALM 2:13 And thus they were prepared to meet the Amlicites at the time
of their
coming. And there were appointed captains, and higher captains, and
chief
captains, according to their numbers.

ALM 2:14 And it came to pass that
Amlici did arm his men with all manner of
weapons of war of every kind; and he
also appointed rulers and leaders over his
people, to lead them to war against
their brethren.

ALM 2:15 And it came to pass that the Amlicites came upon the
hill Amnihu,
which was east of the river Sidon, which ran by the land of
Zarahemla, and
there they began to make war with the Nephites.

ALM 2:16 Now
Alma, being the chief judge and the governor of the people of
Nephi, therefore
he went up with his people, yea, with his captains, and chief
captains, yea, at
the head of his armies, against the Amlicites to battle.

ALM 2:17 And they
began to slay the Amlicites upon the hill east of Sidon. And
the Amlicites did
contend with the Nephites with great strength, insomuch that
many of the
Nephites did fall before the Amlicites.

ALM 2:18 Nevertheless the Lord did
strengthen the hand of the Nephites, that
they slew the Amlicites with great
slaughter, that they began to flee before
them.

ALM 2:19 And it came to pass
that the Nephites did pursue the Amlicites all
that day, and did slay them with
much slaughter, insomuch that there were slain
of the Amlicites twelve thousand
five hundred thirty and two souls; and there
were slain of the Nephites six
thousand five hundred sixty and two souls.

ALM 2:20 And it came to pass that
when Alma could pursue the Amlicites no
longer he caused that his people should
pitch their tents in the valley of
Gideon, the valley being called after that
Gideon who was slain by the hand of
Nehor with the sword; and in this valley
the Nephites did pitch their tents for
the night.

ALM 2:21 And Alma sent spies
to follow the remnant of the Amlicites, that he
might know of their plans and
their plots, whereby he might guard himself
against them, that he might
preserve his people from being destroyed.

ALM 2:22 Now those whom he had sent
out to watch the camp of the Amlicites were
called Zeram, and Amnor, and Manti,
and Limher; these were they who went out
with their men to watch the camp of
the Amlicites.

ALM 2:23 And it came to pass that on the morrow they returned
into the camp of
the Nephites in great haste, being greatly astonished, and
struck with much
fear, saying:

ALM 2:24 Behold, we followed the camp of the
Amlicites, and to our great
astonishment, in the land of Minon, above the land
of Zarahemla, in the course
of the land of Nephi, we saw a numerous host of the
Lamanites; and behold, the
Amlicites have joined them;

ALM 2:25 And they are
upon our brethren in that land; and they are fleeing
before them with their
flocks, and their wives, and their children, towards our
city; and except we
make haste they obtain possession of our city, and our
fathers, and our wives,
and our children be slain.

ALM 2:26 And it came to pass that the people of
Nephi took their tents, and
departed out of the valley of Gideon towards their
city, which was the city of
Zarahemla.

ALM 2:27 And behold, as they were
crossing the river Sidon, the Lamanites and
the Amlicites, being as numerous
almost, as it were, as the sands of the sea,
came upon them to destroy them.


ALM 2:28 Nevertheless, the Nephites being strengthened by the hand of the
Lord,
having prayed mightily to him that he would deliver them out of the hands
of
their enemies, therefore the Lord did hear their cries, and did strengthen

them, and the Lamanites and the Amlicites did fall before them.

ALM 2:29 And
it came to pass that Alma fought with Amlici with the sword, face
to face; and
they did contend mightily, one with another.

ALM 2:30 And it came to pass that
Alma, being a man of God, being exercised
with much faith, cried, saying: O
Lord, have mercy and spare my life, that I
may be an instrument in thy hands to
save and preserve this people.

ALM 2:31 Now when Alma had said these words he
contended again with Amlici; and
he was strengthened, insomuch that he slew
Amlici with the sword.

ALM 2:32 And he also contended with the king of the
Lamanites; but the king of
the Lamanites fled back from before Alma and sent
his guards to contend with
Alma.

ALM 2:33 But Alma, with his guards, contended
with the guards of the king of
the Lamanites until he slew and drove them
back.

ALM 2:34 And thus he cleared the ground, or rather the bank, which was
on the
west of the river Sidon, throwing the bodies of the Lamanites who had
been
slain into the waters of Sidon, that thereby his people might have room
to
cross and contend with the Lamanites and the Amlicites on the west side of
the
river Sidon.

ALM 2:35 And it came to pass that when they had all crossed
the river Sidon
that the Lamanites and the Amlicites began to flee before them,
notwithstanding
they were so numerous that they could not be numbered.

ALM
2:36 And they fled before the Nephites towards the wilderness which was
west
and north, away beyond the borders of the land; and the Nephites did
pursue
them with their might, and did slay them.

ALM 2:37 Yea, they were met on every
hand, and slain and driven, until they
were scattered on the west, and on the
north, until they had reached the
wilderness, which was called Hermounts; and
it was that part of the wilderness
which was infested by wild and ravenous
beasts.

ALM 2:38 And it came to pass that many died in the wilderness of their
wounds,
and were devoured by those beasts and also the vultures of the air; and
their
bones have been found, and have been heaped up on the earth.

ALM 3:0 The
mark of the Amlicites, and the curse upon the Lamanites--Another
Nephite
victory.

ALM 3:1 And it came to pass that the Nephites who were not slain by
the weapons
of war, after having buried those who had been slain--now the
number of the
slain were not numbered, because of the greatness of their
number--after they
had finished burying their dead they all returned to their
lands, and to their
houses, and their wives, and their children.

ALM 3:2 Now
many women and children had been slain with the sword, and also
many of their
flocks and their herds; and also many of their fields of grain
were destroyed,
for they were trodden down by the hosts of men.

ALM 3:3 And now as many of the
Lamanites and the Amlicites who had been slain
upon the bank of the river Sidon
were cast into the waters of Sidon; and behold
their bones are in the depths of
the sea, and they are many.

ALM 3:4 And the Amlicites were distinguished from
the Nephites, for they had
marked themselves with red in their foreheads after
the manner of the
Lamanites; nevertheless they had not shorn their heads like
unto the Lamanites.

ALM 3:5 Now the heads of the Lamanites were shorn; and
they were naked, save it
were skin which was girded about their loins, and also
their armor, which was
girded about them, and their bows, and their arrows, and
their stones, and
their slings, and so forth.

ALM 3:6 And the skins of the
Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which
was set upon their fathers,
which was a curse upon them because of their
transgression and their rebellion
against their brethren, who consisted of
Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph, and Sam, who
were just and holy men.

ALM 3:7 And their brethren sought to destroy them,
therefore they were cursed;
and the Lord God set a mark upon them, yea, upon
Laman and Lemuel, and also the
sons of Ishmael, and Ishmaelitish women.

ALM
3:8 And this was done that their seed might be distinguished from the seed
of
their brethren, that thereby the Lord God might preserve his people, that
they
might not mix and believe in incorrect traditions which would prove their

destruction.

ALM 3:9 And it came to pass that whosoever did mingle his seed
with that of the
Lamanites did bring the same curse upon his seed.

ALM 3:10
Therefore, whosoever suffered himself to be led away by the Lamanites
was
called under that head, and there was a mark set upon him.

ALM 3:11 And it
came to pass that whosoever would not believe in the tradition
of the
Lamanites, but believed those records which were brought out of the land
of
Jerusalem, and also in the tradition of their fathers, which were correct,
who
believed in the commandments of God and kept them, were called the
Nephites, or
the people of Nephi, from that time forth--

ALM 3:12 And it is they who have
kept the records which are true of their
people, and also of the people of the
Lamanites.

ALM 3:13 Now we will return again to the Amlicites, for they also
had a mark
set upon them; yea, they set the mark upon themselves, yea, even a
mark of red
upon their foreheads.

ALM 3:14 Thus the word of God is fulfilled,
for these are the words which he
said to Nephi: Behold, the Lamanites have I
cursed, and I will set a mark on
them that they and their seed may be separated
from thee and thy seed, from
this time henceforth and forever, except they
repent of their wickedness and
turn to me that I may have mercy upon them.

ALM
3:15 And again: I will set a mark upon him that mingleth his seed with thy

brethren, that they may be cursed also.

ALM 3:16 And again: I will set a mark
upon him that fighteth against thee and
thy seed.

ALM 3:17 And again, I say he
that departeth from thee shall no more be called
thy seed; and I will bless
thee, and whomsoever shall be called thy seed,
henceforth and forever; and
these were the promises of the Lord unto Nephi and
to his seed.

ALM 3:18 Now
the Amlicites knew not that they were fulfilling the words of God
when they
began to mark themselves in their foreheads; nevertheless they had
come out in
open rebellion against God; therefore it was expedient that the
curse should
fall upon them.

ALM 3:19 Now I would that ye should see that they brought upon
themselves the
curse; and even so doth every man that is cursed bring upon
himself his own
condemnation.

ALM 3:20 Now it came to pass that not many days
after the battle which was
fought in the land of Zarahemla, by the Lamanites
and the Amlicites, that there
was another army of the Lamanites came in upon
the people of Nephi, in the same
place where the first army met the Amlicites.

ALM 3:21 And it came to pass that there was an army sent to drive them out of

their land.

ALM 3:22 Now Alma himself being afflicted with a wound did not go
up to battle
at this time against the Lamanites;

ALM 3:23 But he sent up a
numerous army against them; and they went up and slew
many of the Lamanites,
and drove the remainder of them out of the borders of
their land.

ALM 3:24 And
then they returned again and began to establish peace in the land,
being
troubled no more for a time with their enemies.

ALM 3:25 Now all these things
were done, yea, all these wars and contentions
were commenced and ended in the
fifth year of the reign of the judges.

ALM 3:26 And in one year were thousands
and tens of thousands of souls sent to
the eternal world, that they might reap
their rewards according to their works,
whether they were good or whether they
were bad, to reap eternal happiness or
eternal misery, according to the spirit
which they listed to obey, whether it
be a good spirit or a bad one.

ALM 3:27
For every man receiveth wages of him whom he listeth to obey, and this

according to the words of the spirit of prophecy; therefore let it be
according
to the truth. And thus endeth the fifth year of the reign of the
judges.

ALM 4:0 Growth of the church--Prosperity, pride, and iniquity--
Nephihah made
chief judge.

ALM 4:1 Now it came to pass in the sixth year of
the reign of the judges over
the people of Nephi, there were no contentions nor
wars in the land of
Zarahemla;

ALM 4:2 But the people were afflicted, yea,
greatly afflicted for the loss of
their brethren, and also for the loss of
their flocks and herds, and also for
the loss of their fields of grain, which
were trodden under foot and destroyed
by the Lamanites.

ALM 4:3 And so great
were their afflictions that every soul had cause to mourn;
and they believed
that it was the judgments of God sent upon them because of
their wickedness and
their abominations; therefore they were awakened to a
remembrance of their
duty.

ALM 4:4 And they began to establish the church more fully; yea, and many
were
baptized in the waters of Sidon and were joined to the church of God; yea,
they
were baptized by the hand of Alma, who had been consecrated the high
priest
over the people of the church, by the hand of his father Alma.

ALM 4:5
And it came to pass in the seventh year of the reign of the judges
there were
about three thousand five hundred souls that united themselves to
the church of
God and were baptized. And thus ended the seventh year of the
reign of the
judges over the people of Nephi; and there was continual peace in
all that
time.

ALM 4:6 And it came to pass in the eighth year of the reign of the
judges, that
the people of the church began to wax proud, because of their
exceeding riches,
and their fine silks, and their fine-twined linen, and
because of their many
flocks and herds, and their gold and their silver, and
all manner of precious
things, which they had obtained by their industry; and
in all these things were
they lifted up in the pride of their eyes, for they
began to wear very costly
apparel.

ALM 4:7 Now this was the cause of much
affliction to Alma, yea, and to many of
the people whom Alma had consecrated to
be teachers, and priests, and elders
over the church; yea, many of them were
sorely grieved for the wickedness which
they saw had begun to be among their
people.

ALM 4:8 For they saw and beheld with great sorrow that the people of
the church
began to be lifted up in the pride of their eyes, and to set their
hearts upon
riches and upon the vain things of the world, that they began to be
scornful,
one towards another, and they began to persecute those that did not
believe
according to their own will and pleasure.

ALM 4:9 And thus, in this
eighth year of the reign of the judges, there began
to be great contentions
among the people of the church; yea, there were
envyings, and strife, and
malice, and persecutions, and pride, even to exceed
the pride of those who did
not belong to the church of God.

ALM 4:10 And thus ended the eighth year of
the reign of the judges; and the
wickedness of the church was a great
stumbling-block to those who did not
belong to the church; and thus the church
began to fail in its progress.

ALM 4:11 And it came to pass in the
commencement of the ninth year, Alma saw
the wickedness of the church, and he
saw also that the example of the church
began to lead those who were
unbelievers on from one piece of iniquity to
another, thus bringing on the
destruction of the people.

ALM 4:12 Yea, he saw great inequality among the
people, some lifting themselves
up with their pride, despising others, turning
their backs upon the needy and
the naked and those who were hungry, and those
who were athirst, and those who
were sick and afflicted.

ALM 4:13 Now this was
a great cause for lamentations among the people, while
others were abasing
themselves, succoring those who stood in need of their
succor, such as
imparting their substance to the poor and the needy, feeding
the hungry, and
suffering all manner of afflictions, for Christ's sake, who
should come
according to the spirit of prophecy;

ALM 4:14 Looking forward to that day,
thus retaining a remission of their sins;
being filled with great joy because
of the resurrection of the dead, according
to the will and power and
deliverance of Jesus Christ from the bands of death.

ALM 4:15 And now it came
to pass that Alma, having seen the afflictions of the
humble followers of God,
and the persecutions which were heaped upon them by
the remainder of his
people, and seeing all their inequality, began to be very
sorrowful;
nevertheless the Spirit of the Lord did not fail him.

ALM 4:16 And he selected
a wise man who was among the elders of the church, and
gave him power according
to the voice of the people, that he might have power
to enact laws according to
the laws which had been given, and to put them in
force according to the
wickedness and the crimes of the people.

ALM 4:17 Now this man's name was
Nephihah, and he was appointed chief judge;
and he sat in the judgment-seat to
judge and to govern the people.

ALM 4:18 Now Alma did not grant unto him the
office of being high priest over
the church, but he retained the office of high
priest unto himself; but he
delivered the judgment-seat unto Nephihah.

ALM
4:19 And this he did that he himself might go forth among his people, or
among
the people of Nephi, that he might preach the word of God unto them, to
stir
them up in remembrance of their duty, and that he might pull down, by the
word
of God, all the pride and craftiness and all the contentions which were
among
his people, seeing no way that he might reclaim them save it were in
bearing
down in pure testimony against them.

ALM 4:20 And thus in the commencement of
the ninth year of the reign of the
judges over the people of Nephi, Alma
delivered up the judgment-seat to
Nephihah, and confined himself wholly to the
high priesthood of the holy order
of God, to the testimony of the word,
according to the spirit of revelation and
prophecy.

ALM 5:0 The words which
Alma, the High Priest according to the holy order of
God, delivered to the
people in their cities and villages throughout the
land--He recounts the
experience of the church--Denounces iniquity--Calls upon
the people to repent.

ALM 5:1 Now it came to pass that Alma began to deliver the word of God unto
the
people, first in the land of Zarahemla, and from thence throughout all the

land.

ALM 5:2 And these are the words which he spake to the people in the
church
which was established in the city of Zarahemla, according to his own
record,
saying:

ALM 5:3 I, Alma, having been consecrated by my father, Alma,
to be a high
priest over the church of God, he having power and authority from
God to do
these things, behold, I say unto you that he began to establish a
church in the
land which was in the borders of Nephi; yea, the land which was
called the land
of Mormon; yea, and he did baptize his brethren in the waters
of Mormon.

ALM 5:4 And behold, I say unto you, they were delivered out of the
hands of the
people of king Noah, by the mercy and power of God.

ALM 5:5 And
behold, after that, they were brought into bondage by the hands of
the
Lamanites in the wilderness; yea, I say unto you, they were in captivity,
and
again the Lord did deliver them out of bondage by the power of his word;
and we
were brought into this land, and here we began to establish the church
of God
throughout this land also.

ALM 5:6 And now behold, I say unto you, my
brethren, you that belong to this
church, have you sufficiently retained in
remembrance the captivity of your
fathers? Yea, and have you sufficiently
retained in remembrance his mercy and
long-suffering towards them? And
moreover, have ye sufficiently retained in
remembrance that he has delivered
their souls from hell?

ALM 5:7 Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he
awakened them out of a deep
sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold, they were
in the midst of darkness;
nevertheless, their souls were illuminated by the
light of the everlasting
word; yea, they were encircled about by the bands of
death, and the chains of
hell, and an everlasting destruction did await them.


ALM 5:8 And now I ask of you, my brethren, were they destroyed? Behold, I say

unto you, Nay, they were not.

ALM 5:9 And again I ask, were the bands of death
broken, and the chains of hell
which encircled them about, were they loosed? I
say unto you, Yea, they were
loosed, and their souls did expand, and they did
sing redeeming love. And I say
unto you that they are saved.

ALM 5:10 And now
I ask of you on what conditions are they saved? Yea, what
grounds had they to
hope for salvation? What is the cause of their being loosed
from the bands of
death, yea, and also the chains of hell?

ALM 5:11 Behold, I can tell you--did
not my father Alma believe in the words
which were delivered by the mouth of
Abinadi? And was he not a holy prophet?
Did he not speak the words of God, and
my father Alma believe them?

ALM 5:12 And according to his faith there was a
mighty change wrought in his
heart. Behold I say unto you that this is all
true.

ALM 5:13 And behold, he preached the word unto your fathers, and a
mighty
change was also wrought in their hearts, and they humbled themselves and
put
their trust in the true and living God. And behold, they were faithful
until
the end; therefore they were saved.

ALM 5:14 And now behold, I ask of
you, my brethren of the church, have ye
spiritually been born of God? Have ye
received his image in your countenances?
Have ye experienced this mighty change
in your hearts?

ALM 5:15 Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who
created you? Do you
look forward with an eye of faith, and view this mortal
body raised in
immortality, and this corruption raised in incorruption, to
stand before God to
be judged according to the deeds which have been done in
the mortal body?

ALM 5:16 I say unto you, can you imagine to yourselves that
ye hear the voice
of the Lord, saying unto you, in that day: Come unto me ye
blessed, for behold,
your works have been the works of righteousness upon the
face of the earth?

ALM 5:17 Or do ye imagine to yourselves that ye can lie
unto the Lord in that
day, and say--Lord, our works have been righteous works
upon the face of the
earth--and that he will save you?

ALM 5:18 Or otherwise,
can ye imagine yourselves brought before the tribunal of
God with your souls
filled with guilt and remorse, having a remembrance of all
your guilt, yea, a
perfect remembrance of all your wickedness, yea, a
remembrance that ye have set
at defiance the commandments of God?

ALM 5:19 I say unto you, can ye look up
to God at that day with a pure heart
and clean hands? I say unto you, can you
look up, having the image of God
engraven upon your countenances?

ALM 5:20 I
say unto you, can ye think of being saved when you have yielded
yourselves to
become subjects to the devil?

ALM 5:21 I say unto you, ye will know at that
day that ye cannot be saved; for
there can no man be saved except his garments
are washed white; yea, his
garments must be purified until they are cleansed
from all stain, through the
blood of him of whom it has been spoken by our
fathers, who should come to
redeem his people from their sins.

ALM 5:22 And
now I ask of you, my brethren, how will any of you feel, if ye
shall stand
before the bar of God, having your garments stained with blood and
all manner
of filthiness? Behold, what will these things testify against you?

ALM 5:23
Behold will they not testify that ye are murderers, yea, and also that
ye are
guilty of all manner of wickedness?

ALM 5:24 Behold, my brethren, do ye
suppose that such an one can have a place
to sit down in the kingdom of God,
with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
and also all the holy prophets, whose
garments are cleansed and are spotless,
pure and white?

ALM 5:25 I say unto
you, Nay; except ye make our Creator a liar from the
beginning, or suppose that
he is a liar from the beginning, ye cannot suppose
that such can have place in
the kingdom of heaven; but they shall be cast out
for they are the children of
the kingdom of the devil.

ALM 5:26 And now behold, I say unto you, my
brethren, if ye have experienced a
change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing
the song of redeeming love, I
would ask, can ye feel so now?

ALM 5:27 Have ye
walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? Could ye say,
if ye were
called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been
sufficiently
humble? That your garments have been cleansed and made white
through the blood
of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their
sins?

ALM 5:28
Behold, are ye stripped of pride? I say unto you, if ye are not ye are
not
prepared to meet God. Behold ye must prepare quickly; for the kingdom of
heaven
is soon at hand, and such an one hath not eternal life.

ALM 5:29 Behold, I
say, is there one among you who is not stripped of envy? I
say unto you that
such an one is not prepared; and I would that he should
prepare quickly, for
the hour is close at hand, and he knoweth not when the
time shall come; for
such an one is not found guiltless.

ALM 5:30 And again I say unto you, is
there one among you that doth make a mock
of his brother, or that heapeth upon
him persecutions?

ALM 5:31 Wo unto such an one, for he is not prepared, and
the time is at hand
that he must repent or he cannot be saved!

ALM 5:32 Yea,
even wo unto all ye workers of iniquity; repent, repent, for the
Lord God hath
spoken it!

ALM 5:33 Behold, he sendeth an invitation unto all men, for the
arms of mercy
are extended towards them, and he saith: Repent, and I will
receive you.

ALM 5:34 Yea, he saith: Come unto me and ye shall partake of the
fruit of the
tree of life; yea, ye shall eat and drink of the bread and the
waters of life
freely;

ALM 5:35 Yea, come unto me and bring forth works of
righteousness, and ye shall
not be hewn down and cast into the fire--

ALM 5:36
For behold, the time is at hand that whosoever bringeth forth not good
fruit,
or whosoever doeth not the works of righteousness, the same have cause
to wail
and mourn.

ALM 5:37 O ye workers of iniquity; ye that are puffed up in the
vain things of
the world, ye that have professed to have known the ways of
righteousness
nevertheless have gone astray, as sheep having no shepherd,
notwithstanding a
shepherd hath called after you and is still calling after
you, but ye will not
hearken unto his voice!

ALM 5:38 Behold, I say unto you,
that the good shepherd doth call you; yea, and
in his own name he doth call
you, which is the name of Christ; and if ye will
not hearken unto the voice of
the good shepherd, to the name by which ye are
called, behold, ye are not the
sheep of the good shepherd.

ALM 5:39 And now if ye are not the sheep of the
good shepherd, of what fold are
ye? Behold, I say unto you, that the devil is
your shepherd, and ye are of his
fold; and now, who can deny this? Behold, I
say unto you, whosoever denieth
this is a liar and a child of the devil.

ALM
5:40 For I say unto you that whatsoever is good cometh from God, and
whatsoever
is evil cometh from the devil.

ALM 5:41 Therefore, if a man bringeth forth
good works he hearkeneth unto the
voice of the good shepherd, and he doth
follow him; but whosoever bringeth
forth evil works, the same becometh a child
of the devil, for he hearkeneth
unto his voice, and doth follow him.

ALM 5:42
And whosoever doeth this must receive his wages of him; therefore, for
his
wages he receiveth death, as to things pertaining unto righteousness, being

dead unto all good works.

ALM 5:43 And now, my brethren, I would that ye
should hear me, for I speak in
the energy of my soul; for behold, I have spoken
unto you plainly that ye
cannot err, or have spoken according to the
commandments of God.

ALM 5:44 For I am called to speak after this manner,
according to the holy
order of God, which is in Christ Jesus; yea, I am
commanded to stand and
testify unto this people the things which have been
spoken by our fathers
concerning the things which are to come.

ALM 5:45 And
this is not all. Do ye not suppose that I know of these things
myself? Behold,
I testify unto you that I do know that these things whereof I
have spoken are
true. And how do ye suppose that I know of their surety?

ALM 5:46 Behold, I
say unto you they are made known unto me by the Holy Spirit
of God. Behold, I
have fasted and prayed many days that I might know these
things of myself. And
now I do know of myself that they are true; for the Lord
God hath made them
manifest unto me by his Holy Spirit; and this is the spirit
of revelation which
is in me.

ALM 5:47 And moreover, I say unto you that it has thus been revealed
unto me,
that the words which have been spoken by our fathers are true, even
so
according to the spirit of prophecy which is in me, which is also by the

manifestation of the Spirit of God.

ALM 5:48 I say unto you, that I know of
myself that whatsoever I shall say unto
you, concerning that which is to come,
is true; and I say unto you, that I know
that Jesus Christ shall come, yea, the
Son, the Only Begotten of the Father,
full of grace, and mercy, and truth. And
behold, it is he that cometh to take
away the sins of the world, yea, the sins
of every man who steadfastly
believeth on his name.

ALM 5:49 And now I say
unto you that this is the order after which I am called,
yea, to preach unto my
beloved brethren, yea, and every one that dwelleth in
the land; yea, to preach
unto all, both old and young, both bond and free; yea,
I say unto you the aged,
and also the middle aged, and the rising generation;
yea, to cry unto them that
they must repent and be born again.

ALM 5:50 Yea, thus saith the Spirit:
Repent, all ye ends of the earth, for the
kingdom of heaven is soon at hand;
yea, the Son of God cometh in his glory, in
his might, majesty, power, and
dominion. Yea, my beloved brethren, I say unto
you, that the Spirit saith:
Behold the glory of the King of all the earth; and
also the King of heaven
shall very soon shine forth among all the children of
men.

ALM 5:51 And also
the Spirit saith unto me, yea, crieth unto me with a mighty
voice, saying: Go
forth and say unto this people--Repent, for except ye repent
ye can in nowise
inherit the kingdom of heaven.

ALM 5:52 And again I say unto you, the Spirit
saith: Behold, the ax is laid at
the root of the tree; therefore every tree
that bringeth not forth good fruit
shall be hewn down and cast into the fire,
yea, a fire which cannot be
consumed, even an unquenchable fire. Behold, and
remember, the Holy One hath
spoken it.

ALM 5:53 And now my beloved brethren, I
say unto you, can ye withstand these
sayings; yea, can ye lay aside these
things, and trample the Holy One under
your feet; yea, can ye be puffed up in
the pride of your hearts; yea, will ye
still persist in the wearing of costly
apparel and setting your hearts upon the
vain things of the world, upon your
riches?

ALM 5:54 Yea, will ye persist in supposing that ye are better one than
another;
yea, will ye persist in the persecution of your brethren, who humble
themselves
and do walk after the holy order of God, wherewith they have been
brought into
this church, having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit, and they
do bring forth
works which are meet for repentance--

ALM 5:55 Yea, and will
you persist in turning your backs upon the poor, and the
needy, and in
withholding your substance from them?

ALM 5:56 And finally, all ye that will
persist in your wickedness, I say unto
you that these are they who shall be
hewn down and cast into the fire except
they speedily repent.

ALM 5:57 And now
I say unto you, all you that are desirous to follow the voice
of the good
shepherd, come ye out from the wicked, and be ye separate, and
touch not their
unclean things; and behold, their names shall be blotted out,
that the names of
the wicked shall not be numbered among the names of the
righteous, that the
word of God may be fulfilled, which saith: The names of the
wicked shall not be
mingled with the names of my people;

ALM 5:58 For the names of the righteous
shall be written in the book of life,
and unto them will I grant an inheritance
at my right hand. And now, my
brethren, what have ye to say against this? I say
unto you, if ye speak against
it, it matters not, for the word of God must be
fulfilled.

ALM 5:59 For what shepherd is there among you having many sheep
doth not watch
over them, that the wolves enter not and devour his flock? And
behold, if a
wolf enter his flock doth he not drive him out? Yea, and at the
last, if he
can, he will destroy him.

ALM 5:60 And now I say unto you that the
good shepherd doth call after you; and
if you will hearken unto his voice he
will bring you into his fold, and ye are
his sheep; and he commandeth you that
ye suffer no ravenous wolf to enter among
you, that ye may not be destroyed.


ALM 5:61 And now I, Alma, do command you in the language of him who hath

commanded me, that ye observe to do the words which I have spoken unto you.


ALM 5:62 I speak by way of command unto you that belong to the church; and
unto
those who do not belong to the church I speak by way of invitation,
saying:
Come and be baptized unto repentance, that ye also may be partakers of
the
fruit of the tree of life.

ALM 6:0 The reform movement, begun in
Zarahemla, is carried to the city of
Gideon.

ALM 6:1 And now it came to pass
that after Alma had made an end of speaking
unto the people of the church,
which was established in the city of Zarahemla,
he ordained priests and elders,
by laying on his hands according to the order
of God, to preside and watch over
the church.

ALM 6:2 And it came to pass that whosoever did not belong to the
church who
repented of their sins were baptized unto repentance, and were
received into
the church.

ALM 6:3 And it also came to pass that whosoever did
belong to the church that
did not repent of their wickedness and humble
themselves before God--I mean
those who were lifted up in the pride of their
hearts--the same were rejected,
and their names were blotted out, that their
names were not numbered among
those of the righteous.

ALM 6:4 And thus they
began to establish the order of the church in the city of
Zarahemla.

ALM 6:5
Now I would that ye should understand that the word of God was liberal
unto
all, that none were deprived of the privilege of assembling themselves
together
to hear the word of God.

ALM 6:6 Nevertheless the children of God were
commanded that they should gather
themselves together oft, and join in fasting
and mighty prayer in behalf of the
welfare of the souls of those who knew not
God.

ALM 6:7 And now it came to pass that when Alma had made these regulations
he
departed from them, yea, from the church which was in the city of
Zarahemla,
and went over upon the east of the river Sidon, into the valley of
Gideon,
there having been a city built, which was called the city of Gideon,
which was
in the valley that was called Gideon, being called after the man who
was slain
by the hand of Nehor with the sword.

ALM 6:8 And Alma went and began
to declare the word of God unto the church
which was established in the valley
of Gideon, according to the revelation of
the truth of the word which had been
spoken by his fathers, and according to
the spirit of prophecy which was in
him, according to the testimony of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, who should
come to redeem his people from their sins,
and the holy order by which he was
called. And thus it is written. Amen.

ALM 7:0 The words of Alma which he
delivered to the people in Gideon, according
to his own record--His testimony
of the Redeemer--he commends the people for
their righteousness.

ALM 7:1
Behold my beloved brethren, seeing that I have been permitted to come
unto you,
therefore I attempt to address you in my language; yea, by my own
mouth, seeing
that it is the first time that I have spoken unto you by the
words of my mouth,
I having been wholly confined to the judgment-seat, having
had much business
that I could not come unto you.

ALM 7:2 And even I could not have come now at
this time were it not that the
judgment-seat hath been given to another, to
reign in my stead; and the Lord in
much mercy hath granted that I should come
unto you.

ALM 7:3 And behold, I have come having great hopes and much desire
that I
should find that ye had humbled yourselves before God, and that ye had

continued in the supplicating of his grace, that I should find that ye were

blameless before him, that I should find that ye were not in the awful dilemma

that our brethren were in at Zarahemla.

ALM 7:4 But blessed be the name of
God, that he hath given me to know, yea,
hath given unto me the exceedingly
great joy of knowing that they are
established again in the way of his
righteousness.

ALM 7:5 And I trust, according to the Spirit of God which is in
me, that I
shall also have joy over you; nevertheless I do not desire that my
joy over you
should come by the cause of so much afflictions and sorrow which I
have had for
the brethren at Zarahemla, for behold, my joy cometh over them
after wading
through much affliction and sorrow.

ALM 7:6 But behold, I trust
that ye are not in a state of so much unbelief as
were your brethren; I trust
that ye are not lifted up in the pride of your
hearts; yea, I trust that ye
have not set your hearts upon riches and the vain
things of the world; yea, I
trust that you do not worship idols, but that ye do
worship the true and the
living God, and that ye look forward for the remission
of your sins, with an
everlasting faith, which is to come.

ALM 7:7 For behold, I say unto you there
be many things to come; and behold,
there is one thing which is of more
importance than they all--for behold, the
time is not far distant that the
Redeemer liveth and cometh among his people.

ALM 7:8 Behold, I do not say that
he will come among us at the time of his
dwelling in his mortal tabernacle; for
behold, the Spirit hath not said unto me
that this should be the case. Now as
to this thing I do not know; but this much
I do know, that the Lord God hath
power to do all things which are according to
his word.

ALM 7:9 But behold,
the Spirit hath said this much unto me, saying: Cry unto
this people, saying--
Repent ye, and prepare the way of the Lord, and walk in
his paths, which are
straight; for behold, the kingdom of heaven is at hand,
and the Son of God
cometh upon the face of the earth.

ALM 7:10 And behold, he shall be born of
Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land
of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a
precious and chosen vessel, who shall
be overshadowed and conceive by the power
of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a
son, yea, even the Son of God.

ALM 7:11
And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations
of every
kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will
take upon
him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

ALM 7:12 And he will take upon
him death, that he may loose the bands of death
which bind his people; and he
will take upon him their infirmities, that his
bowels may be filled with mercy,
according to the flesh, that he may know
according to the flesh how to succor
his people according to their infirmities.

ALM 7:13 Now the Spirit knoweth all
things; nevertheless the Son of God
suffereth according to the flesh that he
might take upon him the sins of his
people, that he might blot out their
transgressions according to the power of
his deliverance; and now behold, this
is the testimony which is in me.

ALM 7:14 Now I say unto you that ye must
repent, and be born again; for the
Spirit saith if ye are not born again ye
cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven;
therefore come and be baptized unto
repentance, that ye may be washed from your
sins, that ye may have faith on the
Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of
the world, who is mighty to save and
to cleanse from all unrighteousness.

ALM 7:15 Yea, I say unto you come and
fear not, and lay aside every sin, which
easily doth beset you, which doth bind
you down to destruction, yea, come and
go forth, and show unto your God that ye
are willing to repent of your sins and
enter into a covenant with him to keep
his commandments, and witness it unto
him this day by going into the waters of
baptism.

ALM 7:16 And whosoever doeth this, and keepeth the commandments of
God from
thenceforth, the same will remember that I say unto him, yea, he will
remember
that I have said unto him, he shall have eternal life, according to
the
testimony of the Holy Spirit, which testifieth in me.

ALM 7:17 And now my
beloved brethren, do you believe these things? Behold, I
say unto you, yea, I
know that ye believe them; and the way that I know that ye
believe them is by
the manifestation of the Spirit which is in me. And now
because your faith is
strong concerning that, yea, concerning the things which
I have spoken, great
is my joy.

ALM 7:18 For as I said unto you from the beginning, that I had much
desire that
ye were not in the state of dilemma like your brethren, even so I
have found
that my desires have been gratified.

ALM 7:19 For I perceive that
ye are in the paths of righteousness; I perceive
that ye are in the path which
leads to the kingdom of God; yea, I perceive that
ye are making his paths
straight.

ALM 7:20 I perceive that it has been made known unto you, by the
testimony of
his word, that he cannot walk in crooked paths; neither doth he
vary from that
which he hath said; neither hath he a shadow of turning from the
right to the
left, or from that which is right to that which is wrong;
therefore, his course
is one eternal round.

ALM 7:21 And he doth not dwell in
unholy temples; neither can filthiness or
anything which is unclean be received
into the kingdom of God; therefore I say
unto you the time shall come, yea, and
it shall be at the last day, that he who
is filthy shall remain in his
filthiness.

ALM 7:22 And now my beloved brethren, I have said these things
unto you that I
might awaken you to a sense of your duty to God, that ye may
walk blameless
before him, that ye may walk after the holy order of God, after
which ye have
been received.

ALM 7:23 And now I would that ye should be
humble, and be submissive and
gentle; easy to be entreated; full of patience
and long-suffering; being
temperate in all things; being diligent in keeping
the commandments of God at
all times; asking for whatsoever things ye stand in
need, both spiritual and
temporal; always returning thanks unto God for
whatsoever things ye do receive.

ALM 7:24 And see that ye have faith, hope,
and charity, and then ye will always
abound in good works.

ALM 7:25 And may
the Lord bless you, and keep your garments spotless, that ye
may at last be
brought to sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the holy
prophets who
have been ever since the world began, having your garments
spotless even as
their garments are spotless, in the kingdom of heaven to go no
more out.

ALM
7:26 And now my beloved brethren, I have spoken these words unto you
according
to the Spirit which testifieth in me; and my soul doth exceedingly
rejoice,
because of the exceeding diligence and heed which ye have given unto
my word.


ALM 7:27 And now, may the peace of God rest upon you, and upon your houses and

lands, and upon your flocks and herds, and all that you possess, your women
and
your children, according to your faith and good works, from this time forth
and
forever. And thus I have spoken. Amen.

ALM 8:0 Alma's success in Melek--
The people of Ammonihah cast him
out--Comforted by an angel, he returns--Amulek
joins him in the ministry--Great
power given.

ALM 8:1 And now it came to pass
that Alma returned from the land of Gideon,
after having taught the people of
Gideon many things which cannot be written,
having established the order of the
church, according as he had before done in
the land of Zarahemla, yea, he
returned to his own house at Zarahemla to rest
himself from the labors which he
had performed.

ALM 8:2 And thus ended the ninth year of the reign of the
judges over the
people of Nephi.

ALM 8:3 And it came to pass in the
commencement of the tenth year of the reign
of the judges over the people of
Nephi, that Alma departed from thence and took
his journey over into the land
of Melek, on the west of the river Sidon, on the
west by the borders of the
wilderness.

ALM 8:4 And he began to teach the people in the land of Melek
according to the
holy order of God, by which he had been called; and he began
to teach the
people throughout all the land of Melek.

ALM 8:5 And it came to
pass that the people came to him throughout all the
borders of the land which
was by the wilderness side. And they were baptized
throughout all the land;


ALM 8:6 So that when he had finished his work at Melek he departed thence, and

traveled three days' journey on the north of the land of Melek; and he came to

a city which was called Ammonihah.

ALM 8:7 Now it was the custom of the people
of Nephi to call their lands, and
their cities, and their villages, yea, even
all their small villages, after the
name of him who first possessed them; and
thus it was with the land of
Ammonihah.

ALM 8:8 And it came to pass that when
Alma had come to the city of Ammonihah he
began to preach the word of God unto
them.

ALM 8:9 Now Satan had gotten great hold upon the hearts of the people of
the
city of Ammonihah; therefore they would not hearken unto the words of
Alma.

ALM 8:10 Nevertheless Alma labored much in the spirit, wrestling with
God in
mighty prayer, that he would pour out his Spirit upon the people who
were in
the city; that he would also grant that he might baptize them unto
repentance.

ALM 8:11 Nevertheless, they hardened their hearts, saying unto
him: Behold, we
know that thou art Alma; and we know that thou art high priest
over the church
which thou hast established in many parts of the land,
according to your
tradition; and we are not of thy church, and we do not
believe in such foolish
traditions.

ALM 8:12 And now we know that because we
are not of thy church we know that
thou hast no power over us; and thou hast
delivered up the judgment-seat unto
Nephihah; therefore thou art not the chief
judge over us.

ALM 8:13 Now when the people had said this, and withstood all
his words, and
reviled him, and spit upon him, and caused that he should be
cast out of their
city, he departed thence and took his journey towards the
city which was called
Aaron.

ALM 8:14 And it came to pass that while he was
journeying thither, being
weighed down with sorrow, wading through much
tribulation and anguish of soul,
because of the wickedness of the people who
were in the city of Ammonihah, it
came to pass while Alma was thus weighed down
with sorrow, behold an angel of
the Lord appeared unto him, saying:

ALM 8:15
Blessed art thou, Alma; therefore, lift up thy head and rejoice, for
thou hast
great cause to rejoice; for thou hast been faithful in keeping the
commandments
of God from the time which thou receivedst thy first message from
him. Behold,
I am he that delivered it unto you.

ALM 8:16 And behold, I am sent to command
thee that thou return to the city of
Ammonihah, and preach again unto the
people of the city; yea, preach unto them.
Yea, say unto them, except they
repent the Lord God will destroy them.

ALM 8:17 For behold, they do study at
this time that they may destroy the
liberty of thy people, (for thus saith the
Lord) which is contrary to the
statutes, and judgments, and commandments which
he has given unto his people.

ALM 8:18 Now it came to pass that after Alma had
received his message from the
angel of the Lord he returned speedily to the
land of Ammonihah. And he entered
the city by another way, yea, by the way
which is on the south of the city of
Ammonihah.

ALM 8:19 And as he entered the
city he was an hungered, and he said to a man:
Will ye give to an humble
servant of God something to eat?

ALM 8:20 And the man said unto him: I am a
Nephite, and I know that thou art a
holy prophet of God, for thou art the man
whom an angel said in a vision: Thou
shalt receive. Therefore, go with me into
my house and I will impart unto thee
of my food; and I know that thou wilt be a
blessing unto me and my house.

ALM 8:21 And it came to pass that the man
received him into his house; and the
man was called Amulek; and he brought
forth bread and meat and set before Alma.

ALM 8:22 And it came to pass that
Alma ate bread and was filled; and he blessed
Amulek and his house, and he gave
thanks unto God.

ALM 8:23 And after he had eaten and was filled he said unto
Amulek: I am Alma,
and am the high priest over the church of God throughout the
land.

ALM 8:24 And behold, I have been called to preach the word of God among
all
this people, according to the spirit of revelation and prophecy; and I was
in
this land and they would not receive me, but they cast me out and I was
about
to set my back towards this land forever.

ALM 8:25 But behold, I have
been commanded that I should turn again and
prophesy unto this people, yea, and
to testify against them concerning their
iniquities.

ALM 8:26 And now, Amulek,
because thou hast fed me and taken me in, thou art
blessed; for I was an
hungered, for I had fasted many days.

ALM 8:27 And Alma tarried many days with
Amulek before he began to preach unto
the people.

ALM 8:28 And it came to pass
that the people did wax more gross in their
iniquities.

ALM 8:29 And the word
came to Alma, saying: Go; and also say unto my servant
Amulek, go forth and
prophesy unto this people, saying--Repent ye, for thus
saith the Lord, except
ye repent I will visit this people in mine anger; yea,
and I will not turn my
fierce anger away.

ALM 8:30 And Alma went forth, and also Amulek, among the
people, to declare the
words of God unto them; and they were filled with the
Holy Ghost.

ALM 8:31 And they had power given unto them, insomuch that they
could not be
confined in dungeons; neither was it possible that any man could
slay them;
nevertheless they did not exercise their power until they were bound
in bands
and cast into prison. Now, this was done that the Lord might show
forth his
power in them.

ALM 8:32 And it came to pass that they went forth and
began to preach and to
prophesy unto the people, according to the spirit and
power which the Lord had
given them.

ALM 9:00 The words of Alma, and also the
words of Amulek, which were declared
unto the people who were in the land of
Ammonihah. And also they are cast into
prison, and delivered by the miraculous
power of God which was in them,
according to the record of Alma. Comprising
chapters 9 to 14 inclusive.

ALM 9:0 Alma preaches to the people of Ammonihah
and calls them to
repentance--His testimony rejected.

ALM 9:1 And again, I,
Alma, having been commanded of God that I should take
Amulek and go forth and
preach again unto this people, or the people who were
in the city of Ammonihah,
it came to pass as I began to preach unto them, they
began to contend with me,
saying:

ALM 9:2 Who art thou? Suppose ye that we shall believe the testimony
of one
man, although he should preach unto us that the earth should pass away?

ALM 9:3 Now they understood not the words which they spake; for they knew not

that the earth should pass away.

ALM 9:4 And they said also: We will not
believe thy words if thou shouldst
prophesy that this great city should be
destroyed in one day.

ALM 9:5 Now they knew not that God could do such
marvelous works, for they were
a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people.

ALM
9:6 And they said: Who is God, that sendeth no more authority than one man

among this people, to declare unto them the truth of such great and marvelous

things?

ALM 9:7 And they stood forth to lay their hands on me; but behold,
they did
not. And I stood with boldness to declare unto them, yea, I did boldly
testify
unto them, saying:

ALM 9:8 Behold, O ye wicked and perverse
generation, how have ye forgotten the
tradition of your fathers; yea, how soon
ye have forgotten the commandments of
God.

ALM 9:9 Do ye not remember that our
father, Lehi, was brought out of Jerusalem
by the hand of God? Do ye not
remember that they were all led by him through
the wilderness?

ALM 9:10 And
have ye forgotten so soon how many times he delivered our fathers
out of the
hands of their enemies, and preserved them from being destroyed,
even by the
hands of their own brethren?

ALM 9:11 Yea, and if it had not been for his
matchless power, and his mercy,
and his long-suffering towards us, we should
unavoidably have been cut off from
the face of the earth long before this
period of time, and perhaps been
consigned to a state of endless misery and
woe.

ALM 9:12 Behold, now I say unto you that he commandeth you to repent;
and
except ye repent, ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God. But behold,
this
is not all--he has commanded you to repent, or he will utterly destroy you
from
off the face of the earth; yea, he will visit you in his anger, and in
his
fierce anger he will not turn away.

ALM 9:13 Behold, do ye not remember
the words which he spake unto Lehi, saying
that: Inasmuch as ye shall keep my
commandments, ye shall prosper in the land?
And again it is said that: Inasmuch
as ye will not keep my commandments ye
shall be cut off from the presence of
the Lord.

ALM 9:14 Now I would that ye should remember, that inasmuch as the
Lamanites
have not kept the commandments of God, they have been cut off from
the presence
of the Lord. Now we see that the word of the Lord has been
verified in this
thing, and the Lamanites have been cut off from his presence,
from the
beginning of their transgressions in the land.

ALM 9:15 Nevertheless
I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for them
in the day of judgment
than for you, if ye remain in your sins, yea, and even
more tolerable for them
in this life than for you, except ye repent.

ALM 9:16 For there are many
promises which are extended to the Lamanites; for
it is because of the
traditions of their fathers that caused them to remain in
their state of
ignorance; therefore the Lord will be merciful unto them and
prolong their
existence in the land.

ALM 9:17 And at some period of time they will be
brought to believe in his
word, and to know of the incorrectness of the
traditions of their fathers; and
many of them will be saved, for the Lord will
be merciful unto all who call on
his name.

ALM 9:18 But behold, I say unto you
that if ye persist in your wickedness that
your days shall not be prolonged in
the land, for the Lamanites shall be sent
upon you; and if ye repent not they
shall come in a time when you know not, and
ye shall be visited with utter
destruction; and it shall be according to the
fierce anger of the Lord.

ALM
9:19 For he will not suffer you that ye shall live in your iniquities, to

destroy his people. I say unto you, Nay; he would rather suffer that the

Lamanites might destroy all his people who are called the people of Nephi, if

it were possible that they could fall into sins and transgressions, after

having had so much light and so much knowledge given unto them of the Lord

their God;

ALM 9:20 Yea, after having been such a highly favored people of the
Lord; yea,
after having been favored above every other nation, kindred, tongue,
or people;
after having had all things made known unto them, according to their
desires,
and their faith, and prayers, of that which has been, and which is,
and which
is to come;

ALM 9:21 Having been visited by the Spirit of God;
having conversed with
angels, and having been spoken unto by the voice of the
Lord; and having the
spirit of prophecy, and the spirit of revelation, and also
many gifts, the gift
of speaking with tongues, and the gift of preaching, and
the gift of the Holy
Ghost, and the gift of translation;

ALM 9:22 Yea, and
after having been delivered of God out of the land of
Jerusalem, by the hand of
the Lord; having been saved from famine, and from
sickness, and all manner of
diseases of every kind; and they having waxed
strong in battle, that they might
not be destroyed; having been brought out of
bondage time after time, and
having been kept and preserved until now; and they
have been prospered until
they are rich in all manner of things--

ALM 9:23 And now behold I say unto
you, that if this people, who have received
so many blessings from the hand of
the Lord, should transgress contrary to the
light and knowledge which they do
have, I say unto you that if this be the
case, that if they should fall into
transgression, it would be far more
tolerable for the Lamanites than for them.

ALM 9:24 For behold, the promises of the Lord are extended to the Lamanites,

but they are not unto you if ye transgress; for has not the Lord expressly

promised and firmly decreed, that if ye will rebel against him that ye shall

utterly be destroyed from off the face of the earth?

ALM 9:25 And now for this
cause, that ye may not be destroyed, the Lord has
sent his angel to visit many
of his people, declaring unto them that they must
go forth and cry mightily
unto this people, saying: Repent ye, for the kingdom
of heaven is nigh at
hand;

ALM 9:26 And not many days hence the Son of God shall come in his glory;
and
his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of
grace,
equity, and truth, full of patience, mercy, and long-suffering, quick to
hear
the cries of his people and to answer their prayers.

ALM 9:27 And behold,
he cometh to redeem those who will be baptized unto
repentance, through faith
on his name.

ALM 9:28 Therefore, prepare ye the way of the Lord, for the time
is at hand
that all men shall reap a reward of their works, according to that
which they
have been--if they have been righteous they shall reap the salvation
of their
souls, according to the power and deliverance of Jesus Christ; and if
they have
been evil they shall reap the damnation of their souls, according to
the power
and captivation of the devil.

ALM 9:29 Now behold, this is the voice
of the angel, crying unto the people.

ALM 9:30 And now, my beloved brethren,
for ye are my brethren, and ye ought to
be beloved, and ye ought to bring forth
works which are meet for repentance,
seeing that your hearts have been grossly
hardened against the word of God, and
seeing that ye are a lost and a fallen
people.

ALM 9:31 Now it came to pass that when I, Alma, had spoken these
words, behold,
the people were wroth with me because I said unto them that they
were a
hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people.

ALM 9:32 And also because I said
unto them that they were a lost and a fallen
people they were angry with me,
and sought to lay their hands upon me, that
they might cast me into prison.


ALM 9:33 But it came to pass that the Lord did not suffer them that they
should
take me at that time and cast me into prison.

ALM 9:34 And it came to
pass that Amulek went and stood forth, and began to
preach unto them also. And
now the words of Amulek are not all written,
nevertheless a part of his words
are written in this book.

ALM 10:0 Amulek's lineage--Lehi a descendant of
Joseph through Manasseh--Amulek
tells of his conversion--His testimony--He
denounces designing lawyers and
judges--Zeezrom.

ALM 10:1 Now these are the
words which Amulek preached unto the people who were
in the land of Ammonihah,
saying:

ALM 10:2 I am Amulek; I am the son of Giddonah, who was the son of
Ishmael, who
was a descendant of Aminadi; and it was that same Aminadi who
interpreted the
writing which was upon the wall of the temple, which was
written by the finger
of God.

ALM 10:3 And Aminadi was a descendant of Nephi,
who was the son of Lehi, who
came out of the land of Jerusalem, who was a
descendant of Manasseh, who was
the son of Joseph who was sold into Egypt by
the hands of his brethren.

ALM 10:4 And behold, I am also a man of no small
reputation among all those who
know me; yea, and behold, I have many kindreds
and friends, and I have also
acquired much riches by the hand of my industry.


ALM 10:5 Nevertheless, after all this, I never have known much of the ways of

the Lord, and his mysteries and marvelous power. I said I never had known much

of these things; but behold, I mistake, for I have seen much of his mysteries

and his marvelous power; yea, even in the preservation of the lives of this

people.

ALM 10:6 Nevertheless, I did harden my heart, for I was called many
times and I
would not hear; therefore I knew concerning these things, yet I
would not know;
therefore I went on rebelling against God, in the wickedness of
my heart, even
until the fourth day of this seventh month, which is in the
tenth year of the
reign of the judges.

ALM 10:7 As I was journeying to see a
very near kindred, behold an angel of the
Lord appeared unto me and said:
Amulek, return to thine own house, for thou
shalt feed a prophet of the Lord;
yea, a holy man, who is a chosen man of God;
for he has fasted many days
because of the sins of this people, and he is an
hungered, and thou shalt
receive him into thy house and feed him, and he shall
bless thee and thy house;
and the blessing of the Lord shall rest upon thee and
thy house.

ALM 10:8 And
it came to pass that I obeyed the voice of the angel, and returned
towards my
house. And as I was going thither I found the man whom the angel
said unto me:
Thou shalt receive into thy house--and behold it was this same
man who has been
speaking unto you concerning the things of God.

ALM 10:9 And the angel said
unto me he is a holy man; wherefore I know he is a
holy man because it was said
by an angel of God.

ALM 10:10 And again, I know that the things whereof he
hath testified are true;
for behold I say unto you, that as the Lord liveth,
even so has he sent his
angel to make these things manifest unto me; and this
he has done while this
Alma hath dwelt at my house.

ALM 10:11 For behold, he
hath blessed mine house, he hath blessed me, and my
women, and my children, and
my father and my kinsfolk; yea, even all my kindred
hath he blessed, and the
blessing of the Lord hath rested upon us according to
the words which he
spake.

ALM 10:12 And now, when Amulek had spoken these words the people began
to be
astonished, seeing there was more than one witness who testified of the
things
whereof they were accused, and also of the things which were to come,
according
to the spirit of prophecy which was in them.

ALM 10:13 Nevertheless,
there were some among them who thought to question
them, that by their cunning
devices they might catch them in their words, that
they might find witness
against them, that they might deliver them to their
judges that they might be
judged according to the law, and that they might be
slain or cast into prison,
according to the crime which they could make appear
or witness against them.


ALM 10:14 Now it was those men who sought to destroy them, who were lawyers,

who were hired or appointed by the people to administer the law at their times

of trials, or at the trials of the crimes of the people before the judges.

ALM
10:15 Now these lawyers were learned in all the arts and cunning of the
people;
and this was to enable them that they might be skilful in their
profession.


ALM 10:16 And it came to pass that they began to question Amulek, that thereby

they might make him cross his words, or contradict the words which he should

speak.

ALM 10:17 Now they knew not that Amulek could know of their designs.
But it
came to pass as they began to question him, he perceived their thoughts,
and he
said unto them: O ye wicked and perverse generation, ye lawyers and
hypocrites,
for ye are laying the foundations of the devil; for ye are laying
traps and
snares to catch the holy ones of God.

ALM 10:18 Ye are laying plans
to pervert the ways of the righteous, and to
bring down the wrath of God upon
your heads, even to the utter destruction of
this people.

ALM 10:19 Yea, well
did Mosiah say, who was our last king, when he was about to
deliver up the
kingdom, having no one to confer it upon, causing that this
people should be
governed by their own voices--yea, well did he say that if the
time should come
that the voice of this people should choose iniquity, that is,
if the time
should come that this people should fall into transgression, they
would be ripe
for destruction.

ALM 10:20 And now I say unto you that well doth the Lord
judge of your
iniquities; well doth he cry unto this people, by the voice of
his angels:
Repent ye, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

ALM 10:21
Yea, well doth he cry, by the voice of his angels that: I will come
down among
my people, with equity and justice in my hands.

ALM 10:22 Yea, and I say unto
you that if it were not for the prayers of the
righteous, who are now in the
land, that ye would even now be visited with
utter destruction; yet it would
not be by flood, as were the people in the days
of Noah, but it would be by
famine, and by pestilence, and the sword.

ALM 10:23 But it is by the prayers
of the righteous that ye are spared; now
therefore, if ye will cast out the
righteous from among you then will not the
Lord stay his hand; but in his
fierce anger he will come out against you; then
ye shall be smitten by famine,
and by pestilence, and by the sword; and the
time is soon at hand except ye
repent.

ALM 10:24 And now it came to pass that the people were more angry with
Amulek,
and they cried out, saying: This man doth revile against our laws which
are
just, and our wise lawyers whom we have selected.

ALM 10:25 But Amulek
stretched forth his hand, and cried the mightier unto
them, saying: O ye wicked
and perverse generation, why hath Satan got such
great hold upon your hearts?
Why will ye yield yourselves unto him that he may
have power over you, to blind
your eyes, that ye will not understand the words
which are spoken, according to
their truth?

ALM 10:26 For behold, have I testified against your law? Ye do
not understand;
ye say that I have spoken against your law; but I have not, but
I have spoken
in favor of your law, to your condemnation.

ALM 10:27 And now
behold, I say unto you, that the foundation of the
destruction of this people
is beginning to be laid by the unrighteousness of
your lawyers and your
judges.

ALM 10:28 And now it came to pass that when Amulek had spoken these
words the
people cried out against him, saying: Now we know that this man is a
child of
the devil, for he hath lied unto us; for he hath spoken against our
law. And
now he says that he has not spoken against it.

ALM 10:29 And again,
he has reviled against our lawyers, and our judges.

ALM 10:30 And it came to
pass that the lawyers put it into their hearts that
they should remember these
things against him.

ALM 10:31 And there was one among them whose name was
Zeezrom. Now he was the
foremost to accuse Amulek and Alma, he being one of the
most expert among them,
having much business to do among the people.

ALM 10:32
Now the object of these lawyers was to get gain; and they got gain
according to
their employ.

ALM 11:0 Judges and their compensation--Nephite coins and
measures--Zeezrom
confounded by Amulek.

ALM 11:1 Now it was in the law of
Mosiah that every man who was a judge of the
law, or those who were appointed
to be judges, should receive wages according
to the time which they labored to
judge those who were brought before them to
be judged.

ALM 11:2 Now if a man
owed another, and he would not pay that which he did owe,
he was complained of
to the judge; and the judge executed authority, and sent
forth officers that
the man should be brought before him; and he judged the man
according to the
law and the evidences which were brought against him, and thus
the man was
compelled to pay that which he owed, or be stripped, or be cast out
from among
the people as a thief and a robber.

ALM 11:3 And the judge received for his
wages according to his time--a senine
of gold for a day, or a senum of silver,
which is equal to a senine of gold;
and this is according to the law which was
given.

ALM 11:4 Now these are the names of the different pieces of their gold,
and of
their silver, according to their value. And the names are given by the

Nephites, for they did not reckon after the manner of the Jews who were at

Jerusalem; neither did they measure after the manner of the Jews; but they

altered their reckoning and their measure, according to the minds and the

circumstances of the people, in every generation, until the reign of the

judges, they having been established by king Mosiah.

ALM 11:5 Now the
reckoning is thus--a senine of gold, a seon of gold, a shum of
gold, and a
limnah of gold.

ALM 11:6 A senum of silver, an amnor of silver, an ezrom of
silver, and an onti
of silver.

ALM 11:7 A senum of silver was equal to a
senine of gold, and either for a
measure of barley, and also for a measure of
every kind of grain.

ALM 11:8 Now the amount of a seon of gold was twice the
value of a senine.

ALM 11:9 And a shum of gold was twice the value of a seon.

ALM 11:10 And a limnah of gold was the value of them all.

ALM 11:11 And an
amnor of silver was as great as two senums.

ALM 11:12 And an ezrom of silver
was as great as four senums.

ALM 11:13 And an onti was as great as them all.


ALM 11:14 Now this is the value of the lesser numbers of their reckoning--

ALM
11:15 A shiblon is half of a senum; therefore, a shiblon for half a measure
of
barley.

ALM 11:16 And a shiblum is a half of a shiblon.

ALM 11:17 And a leah
is the half of a shiblum.

ALM 11:18 Now this is their number, according to
their reckoning.

ALM 11:19 Now an antion of gold is equal to three shiblons.


ALM 11:20 Now, it was for the sole purpose to get gain, because they received

their wages according to their employ, therefore, they did stir up the people

to riotings, and all manner of disturbances and wickedness, that they might

have more employ, that they might get money according to the suits which were

brought before them; therefore they did stir up the people against Alma and

Amulek.

ALM 11:21 And this Zeezrom began to question Amulek, saying: Will ye
answer me
a few questions which I shall ask you? Now Zeezrom was a man who was
expert in
the devices of the devil, that he might destroy that which was good;
therefore,
he said unto Amulek: Will ye answer the questions which I shall put
unto you?

ALM 11:22 And Amulek said unto him: Yea, if it be according to the
Spirit of
the Lord, which is in me; for I shall say nothing which is contrary
to the
Spirit of the Lord. And Zeezrom said unto him: Behold, here are six
onties of
silver, and all these will I give thee if thou wilt deny the
existence of a
Supreme Being.

ALM 11:23 Now Amulek said: O thou child of hell,
why tempt ye me? Knowest thou
that the righteous yieldeth to no such
temptations?

ALM 11:24 Believest thou that there is no God? I say unto you,
Nay, thou
knowest that there is a God, but thou lovest that lucre more than
him.

ALM 11:25 And now thou hast lied before God unto me. Thou saidst unto

me--Behold these six onties, which are of great worth, I will give unto
thee--
when thou hadst it in thy heart to retain them from me; and it was only
thy
desire that I should deny the true and living God, that thou mightest have

cause to destroy me. And now behold, for this great evil thou shalt have thy

reward.

ALM 11:26 And Zeezrom said unto him: Thou sayest there is a true and
living
God?

ALM 11:27 And Amulek said: Yea, there is a true and living God.


ALM 11:28 Now Zeezrom said: Is there more than one God?

ALM 11:29 And he
answered, No.

ALM 11:30 Now Zeezrom said unto him again: How knowest thou
these things?

ALM 11:31 And he said: An angel hath made them known unto me.


ALM 11:32 And Zeezrom said again: Who is he that shall come? Is it the Son of

God?

ALM 11:33 And he said unto him, Yea.

ALM 11:34 And Zeezrom said again:
Shall he save his people in their sins? And
Amulek answered and said unto him:
I say unto you he shall not, for it is
impossible for him to deny his word.


ALM 11:35 Now Zeezrom said unto the people: See that ye remember these things;

for he said there is but one God; yet he saith that the Son of God shall come,

but he shall not save his people--as though he had authority to command God.


ALM 11:36 Now Amulek saith again unto him: Behold thou hast lied, for thou

sayest that I spake as though I had authority to command God because I said he

shall not save his people in their sins.

ALM 11:37 And I say unto you again
that he cannot save them in their sins; for
I cannot deny his word, and he hath
said that no unclean thing can inherit the
kingdom of heaven; therefore, how
can ye be saved, except ye inherit the
kingdom of heaven? Therefore, ye cannot
be saved in your sins.

ALM 11:38 Now Zeezrom saith again unto him: Is the Son
of God the very Eternal
Father?

ALM 11:39 And Amulek said unto him: Yea, he is
the very Eternal Father of
heaven and of earth, and all things which in them
are; he is the beginning and
the end, the first and the last;

ALM 11:40 And he
shall come into the world to redeem his people; and he shall
take upon him the
transgressions of those who believe on his name; and these
are they that shall
have eternal life, and salvation cometh to none else.

ALM 11:41 Therefore the
wicked remain as though there had been no redemption
made, except it be the
loosing of the bands of death; for behold, the day
cometh that all shall rise
from the dead and stand before God, and be judged
according to their works.


ALM 11:42 Now, there is a death which is called a temporal death; and the
death
of Christ shall loose the bands of this temporal death, that all shall
be
raised from this temporal death.

ALM 11:43 The spirit and the body shall be
reunited again in its perfect form;
both limb and joint shall be restored to
its proper frame, even as we now are
at this time; and we shall be brought to
stand before God, knowing even as we
know now, and have a bright recollection
of all our guilt.

ALM 11:44 Now, this restoration shall come to all, both old
and young, both
bond and free, both male and female, both the wicked and the
righteous; and
even there shall not so much as a hair of their heads be lost;
but every thing
shall be restored to its perfect frame, as it is now, or in the
body, and shall
be brought and be arraigned before the bar of Christ the Son,
and God the
Father, and the Holy Spirit, which is one Eternal God, to be judged
according
to their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil.

ALM
11:45 Now, behold, I have spoken unto you concerning the death of the
mortal
body, and also concerning the resurrection of the mortal body. I say
unto you
that this mortal body is raised to an immortal body, that is from
death, even
from the first death unto life, that they can die no more; their
spirits
uniting with their bodies, never to be divided; thus the whole becoming

spiritual and immortal, that they can no more see corruption.

ALM 11:46 Now,
when Amulek had finished these words the people began again to
be astonished,
and also Zeezrom began to tremble. And thus ended the words of
Amulek, or this
is all that I have written.

ALM 12:0 Amulek's testimony confirmed by Alma--
Doctrine of the tree of
life--The plan of redemption expounded.

ALM 12:1 Now
Alma, seeing that the words of Amulek had silenced Zeezrom, for he
beheld that
Amulek had caught him in his lying and deceiving to destroy him,
and seeing
that he began to tremble under a consciousness of his guilt, he
opened his
mouth and began to speak unto him, and to establish the words of
Amulek, and to
explain things beyond, or to unfold the scriptures beyond that
which Amulek had
done.

ALM 12:2 Now the words that Alma spake unto Zeezrom were heard by the
people
round about; for the multitude was great, and he spake on this wise:


ALM 12:3 Now Zeezrom, seeing that thou hast been taken in thy lying and

craftiness, for thou hast not lied unto men only but thou hast lied unto God;

for behold, he knows all thy thoughts, and thou seest that thy thoughts are

made known unto us by his Spirit;

ALM 12:4 And thou seest that we know that
thy plan was a very subtle plan, as
to the subtlety of the devil, for to lie
and to deceive this people that thou
mightest set them against us, to revile us
and to cast us out--

ALM 12:5 Now this was a plan of thine adversary, and he
hath exercised his
power in thee. Now I would that ye should remember that what
I say unto thee I
say unto all.

ALM 12:6 And behold I say unto you all that
this was a snare of the adversary,
which he has laid to catch this people, that
he might bring you into subjection
unto him, that he might encircle you about
with his chains, that he might chain
you down to everlasting destruction,
according to the power of his captivity.

ALM 12:7 Now when Alma had spoken
these words, Zeezrom began to tremble more
exceedingly, for he was convinced
more and more of the power of God; and he was
also convinced that Alma and
Amulek had a knowledge of him, for he was
convinced that they knew the thoughts
and intents of his heart; for power was
given unto them that they might know of
these things according to the spirit of
prophecy.

ALM 12:8 And Zeezrom began
to inquire of them diligently, that he might know
more concerning the kingdom
of God. And he said unto Alma: What does this mean
which Amulek hath spoken
concerning the resurrection of the dead, that all
shall rise from the dead,
both the just and the unjust, and are brought to
stand before God to be judged
according to their works?

ALM 12:9 And now Alma began to expound these things
unto him, saying: It is
given unto many to know the mysteries of God;
nevertheless they are laid under
a strict command that they shall not impart
only according to the portion of
his word which he doth grant unto the children
of men, according to the heed
and diligence which they give unto him.

ALM
12:10 And therefore, he that will harden his heart, the same receiveth the

lesser portion of the word; and he that will not harden his heart, to him is

given the greater portion of the word, until it is given unto him to know the

mysteries of God until he know them in full.

ALM 12:11 And they that will
harden their hearts, to them is given the lesser
portion of the word until they
know nothing concerning his mysteries; and then
they are taken captive by the
devil, and led by his will down to destruction.
Now this is what is meant by
the chains of hell.

ALM 12:12 And Amulek hath spoken plainly concerning death,
and being raised
from this mortality to a state of immortality, and being
brought before the bar
of God, to be judged according to our works.

ALM 12:13
Then if our hearts have been hardened, yea, if we have hardened our
hearts
against the word, insomuch that it has not been found in us, then will
our
state be awful, for then we shall be condemned.

ALM 12:14 For our words will
condemn us, yea, all our works will condemn us; we
shall not be found spotless;
and our thoughts will also condemn us; and in this
awful state we shall not
dare to look up to our God; and we would fain be glad
if we could command the
rocks and the mountains to fall upon us to hide us from
his presence.

ALM
12:15 But this cannot be; we must come forth and stand before him in his
glory,
and in his power, and in his might, majesty, and dominion, and
acknowledge to
our everlasting shame that all his judgments are just; that he
is just in all
his works, and that he is merciful unto the children of men, and
that he has
all power to save every man that believeth on his name and bringeth
forth fruit
meet for repentance.

ALM 12:16 And now behold, I say unto you then cometh a
death, even a second
death, which is a spiritual death; then is a time that
whosoever dieth in his
sins, as to a temporal death, shall also die a spiritual
death; yea, he shall
die as to things pertaining unto righteousness.

ALM 12:17
Then is the time when their torments shall be as a lake of fire and
brimstone,
whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever; and then is the time that
they shall
be chained down to an everlasting destruction, according to the
power and
captivity of Satan, he having subjected them according to his will.

ALM 12:18
Then, I say unto you, they shall be as though there had been no
redemption
made; for they cannot be redeemed according to God's justice; and
they cannot
die, seeing there is no more corruption.

ALM 12:19 Now it came to pass that
when Alma had made an end of speaking these
words, the people began to be more
astonished;

ALM 12:20 But there was one Antionah, who was a chief ruler among
them, came
forth and said unto him: What is this that thou hast said, that man
should rise
from the dead and be changed from this mortal to an immortal state,
that the
soul can never die?

ALM 12:21 What does the scripture mean, which
saith that God placed cherubim
and a flaming sword on the east of the garden of
Eden, lest our first parents
should enter and partake of the fruit of the tree
of life, and live forever?
And thus we see that there was no possible chance
that they should live
forever.

ALM 12:22 Now Alma said unto him: This is the
thing which I was about to
explain. Now we see that Adam did fall by the
partaking of the forbidden fruit,
according to the word of God; and thus we
see, that by his fall, all mankind
became a lost and fallen people.

ALM 12:23
And now behold, I say unto you that if it had been possible for Adam
to have
partaken of the fruit of the tree of life at that time, there would
have been
no death, and the word would have been void, making God a liar, for
he said: If
thou eat thou shalt surely die.

ALM 12:24 And we see that death comes upon
mankind, yea, the death which has
been spoken of by Amulek, which is the
temporal death; nevertheless there was a
space granted unto man in which he
might repent; therefore this life became a
probationary state; a time to
prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that
endless state which has been
spoken of by us, which is after the resurrection
of the dead.

ALM 12:25 Now,
if it had not been for the plan of redemption, which was laid
from the
foundation of the world, there could have been no resurrection of the
dead; but
there was a plan of redemption laid, which shall bring to pass the
resurrection
of the dead, of which has been spoken.

ALM 12:26 And now behold, if it were
possible that our first parents could have
gone forth and partaken of the tree
of life they would have been forever
miserable, having no preparatory state;
and thus the plan of redemption would
have been frustrated, and the word of God
would have been void, taking none
effect.

ALM 12:27 But behold, it was not so;
but it was appointed unto men that they
must die; and after death, they must
come to judgment, even that same judgment
of which we have spoken, which is the
end.

ALM 12:28 And after God had appointed that these things should come unto
man,
behold, then he saw that it was expedient that man should know concerning
the
things whereof he had appointed unto them;

ALM 12:29 Therefore he sent
angels to converse with them, who caused men to
behold of his glory.

ALM 12:30
And they began from that time forth to call on his name; therefore
God
conversed with men, and made known unto them the plan of redemption, which
had
been prepared from the foundation of the world; and this he made known unto

them according to their faith and repentance and their holy works.

ALM 12:31
Wherefore, he gave commandments unto men, they having first
transgressed the
first commandments as to things which were temporal, and
becoming as Gods,
knowing good from evil, placing themselves in a state to act,
or being placed
in a state to act according to their wills and pleasures,
whether to do evil or
to do good--

ALM 12:32 Therefore God gave unto them commandments, after having
made known
unto them the plan of redemption, that they should not do evil, the
penalty
thereof being a second death, which was an everlasting death as to
things
pertaining unto righteousness; for on such the plan of redemption could
have no
power, for the works of justice could not be destroyed, according to
the
supreme goodness of God.

ALM 12:33 But God did call on men, in the name of
his Son, (this being the plan
of redemption which was laid) saying: If ye will
repent, and harden not your
hearts, then will I have mercy upon you, through
mine Only Begotten Son;

ALM 12:34 Therefore, whosoever repenteth, and
hardeneth not his heart, he shall
have claim on mercy through mine Only
Begotten Son, unto a remission of his
sins; and these shall enter into my
rest.

ALM 12:35 And whosoever will harden his heart and will do iniquity,
behold, I
swear in my wrath that he shall not enter into my rest.

ALM 12:36
And now, my brethren, behold I say unto you, that if ye will harden
your hearts
ye shall not enter into the rest of the Lord; therefore your
iniquity provoketh
him that he sendeth down his wrath upon you as in the first
provocation, yea,
according to his word in the last provocation as well as the
first, to the
everlasting destruction of your souls; therefore, according to
his word, unto
the last death, as well as the first.

ALM 12:37 And now, my brethren, seeing
we know these things, and they are true,
let us repent, and harden not our
hearts, that we provoke not the Lord our God
to pull down his wrath upon us in
these his second commandments which he has
given unto us; but let us enter into
the rest of God, which is prepared
according to his word.

ALM 13:0 Alma's
discourse continued--The holy order of the Son of God--High
Priests--Why
ordained--Melchizedek and Abraham.

ALM 13:1 And again, my brethren, I would
cite your minds forward to the time
when the Lord God gave these commandments
unto his children; and I would that
ye should remember that the Lord God
ordained priests, after his holy order,
which was after the order of his Son,
to teach these things unto the people.

ALM 13:2 And those priests were
ordained after the order of his Son, in a
manner that thereby the people might
know in what manner to look forward to his
Son for redemption.

ALM 13:3 And
this is the manner after which they were ordained--being called
and prepared
from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of
God, on
account of their exceeding faith and good works; in the first place
being left
to choose good or evil; therefore they having chosen good, and
exercising
exceedingly great faith, are called with a holy calling, yea, with
that holy
calling which was prepared with, and according to, a preparatory
redemption for
such.

ALM 13:4 And thus they have been called to this holy calling on account
of
their faith, while others would reject the Spirit of God on account of the

hardness of their hearts and blindness of their minds, while, if it had not

been for this they might have had as great privilege as their brethren.

ALM
13:5 Or in fine, in the first place they were on the same standing with
their
brethren; thus this holy calling being prepared from the foundation of
the
world for such as would not harden their hearts, being in and through the

atonement of the Only Begotten Son, who was prepared--

ALM 13:6 And thus being
called by this holy calling, and ordained unto the high
priesthood of the holy
order of God, to teach his commandments unto the
children of men, that they
also might enter into his rest--

ALM 13:7 This high priesthood being after the
order of his Son, which order was
from the foundation of the world; or in other
words, being without beginning of
days or end of years, being prepared from
eternity to all eternity, according
to his foreknowledge of all things--

ALM
13:8 Now they were ordained after this manner--being called with a holy

calling, and ordained with a holy ordinance, and taking upon them the high

priesthood of the holy order, which calling, and ordinance, and high

priesthood, is without beginning or end--

ALM 13:9 Thus they become high
priests forever, after the order of the Son, the
Only Begotten of the Father,
who is without beginning of days or end of years,
who is full of grace, equity,
and truth. And thus it is. Amen.

ALM 13:10 Now, as I said concerning the holy
order, or this high priesthood,
there were many who were ordained and became
high priests of God; and it was on
account of their exceeding faith and
repentance, and their righteousness before
God, they choosing to repent and
work righteousness rather than to perish;

ALM 13:11 Therefore they were called
after this holy order, and were
sanctified, and their garments were washed
white through the blood of the Lamb.

ALM 13:12 Now they, after being
sanctified by the Holy Ghost, having their
garments made white, being pure and
spotless before God, could not look upon
sin save it were with abhorrence; and
there were many, exceedingly great many,
who were made pure and entered into
the rest of the Lord their God.

ALM 13:13 And now, my brethren, I would that
ye should humble yourselves before
God, and bring forth fruit meet for
repentance, that ye may also enter into
that rest.

ALM 13:14 Yea, humble
yourselves even as the people in the days of Melchizedek,
who was also a high
priest after this same order which I have spoken, who also
took upon him the
high priesthood forever.

ALM 13:15 And it was this same Melchizedek to whom
Abraham paid tithes; yea,
even our father Abraham paid tithes of one-tenth part
of all he possessed.

ALM 13:16 Now these ordinances were given after this
manner, that thereby the
people might look forward on the Son of God, it being
a type of his order, or
it being his order, and this that they might look
forward to him for a
remission of their sins, that they might enter into the
rest of the Lord.

ALM 13:17 Now this Melchizedek was a king over the land of
Salem; and his
people had waxed strong in iniquity and abomination; yea, they
had all gone
astray; they were full of all manner of wickedness;

ALM 13:18 But
Melchizedek having exercised mighty faith, and received the
office of the high
priesthood according to the holy order of God, did preach
repentance unto his
people. And behold, they did repent; and Melchizedek did
establish peace in the
land in his days; therefore he was called the prince of
peace, for he was the
king of Salem; and he did reign under his father.

ALM 13:19 Now, there were
many before him, and also there were many afterwards,
but none were greater;
therefore, of him they have more particularly made
mention.

ALM 13:20 Now I
need not rehearse the matter; what I have said may suffice.
Behold, the
scriptures are before you; if ye will wrest them it shall be to
your own
destruction.

ALM 13:21 And now it came to pass that when Alma had said these
words unto
them, he stretched forth his hand unto them and cried with a mighty
voice,
saying: Now is the time to repent, for the day of salvation draweth
nigh;

ALM 13:22 Yea, and the voice of the Lord, by the mouth of angels, doth
declare
it unto all nations; yea, doth declare it, that they may have glad
tidings of
great joy; yea, and he doth sound these glad tidings among all his
people, yea,
even to them that are scattered abroad upon the face of the earth;
wherefore
they have come unto us.

ALM 13:23 And they are made known unto us in
plain terms, that we may
understand, that we cannot err; and this because of
our being wanderers in a
strange land; therefore, we are thus highly favored,
for we have these glad
tidings declared unto us in all parts of our vineyard.


ALM 13:24 For behold, angels are declaring it unto many at this time in our

land; and this is for the purpose of preparing the hearts of the children of

men to receive his word at the time of his coming in his glory.

ALM 13:25 And
now we only wait to hear the joyful news declared unto us by the
mouth of
angels, of his coming; for the time cometh, we know not how soon.
Would to God
that it might be in my day; but let it be sooner or later, in it I
will
rejoice.

ALM 13:26 And it shall be made known unto just and holy men, by the
mouth of
angels, at the time of his coming, that the words of our fathers may
be
fulfilled, according to that which they have spoken concerning him, which
was
according to the spirit of prophecy which was in them.

ALM 13:27 And now,
my brethren, I wish from the inmost part of my heart, yea,
with great anxiety
even unto pain, that ye would hearken unto my words, and
cast off your sins,
and not procrastinate the day of your repentance;

ALM 13:28 But that ye would
humble yourselves before the Lord, and call on his
holy name, and watch and
pray continually, that ye may not be tempted above
that which ye can bear, and
thus be led by the Holy Spirit, becoming humble,
meek, submissive, patient,
full of love and all long-suffering;

ALM 13:29 Having faith on the Lord;
having a hope that ye shall receive eternal
life; having the love of God always
in your hearts, that ye may be lifted up at
the last day and enter into his
rest.

ALM 13:30 And may the Lord grant unto you repentance, that ye may not
bring
down his wrath upon you, that ye may not be bound down by the chains of
hell,
that ye may not suffer the second death.

ALM 13:31 And Alma spake many
more words unto the people, which are not written
in this book.

ALM 14:0 Alma
and Amulek imprisoned--their adherents persecuted--Deaths by
fire--Zeezrom, now
repentant, pleads their cause and is cast out--The prophets
delivered and their
enemies slain.

ALM 14:1 And it came to pass after he had made an end of
speaking unto the
people many of them did believe on his words, and began to
repent, and to
search the scriptures.

ALM 14:2 But the more part of them were
desirous that they might destroy Alma
and Amulek; for they were angry with
Alma, because of the plainness of his
words unto Zeezrom; and they also said
that Amulek had lied unto them, and had
reviled against their law and also
against their lawyers and judges.

ALM 14:3 And they were also angry with Alma
and Amulek; and because they had
testified so plainly against their wickedness,
they sought to put them away
privily.

ALM 14:4 But it came to pass that they
did not; but they took them and bound
them with strong cords, and took them
before the chief judge of the land.

ALM 14:5 And the people went forth and
witnessed against them--testifying that
they had reviled against the law, and
their lawyers and judges of the land, and
also of all the people that were in
the land; and also testified that there was
but one God, and that he should
send his Son among the people, but he should
not save them; and many such
things did the people testify against Alma and
Amulek. Now this was done before
the chief judge of the land.

ALM 14:6 And it came to pass that Zeezrom was
astonished at the words which had
been spoken; and he also knew concerning the
blindness of the minds, which he
had caused among the people by his lying
words; and his soul began to be
harrowed up under a consciousness of his own
guilt; yea, he began to be
encircled about by the pains of hell.

ALM 14:7 And
it came to pass that he began to cry unto the people, saying:
Behold, I am
guilty, and these men are spotless before God. And he began to
plead for them
from that time forth; but they reviled him, saying: Art thou
also possessed
with the devil? And they spit upon him, and cast him out from
among them, and
also all those who believed in the words which had been spoken
by Alma and
Amulek; and they cast them out, and sent men to cast stones at
them.

ALM 14:8
And they brought their wives and children together, and whosoever
believed or
had been taught to believe in the word of God they caused that they
should be
cast into the fire; and they also brought forth their records which
contained
the holy scriptures, and cast them into the fire also, that they
might be
burned and destroyed by fire.

ALM 14:9 And it came to pass that they took Alma
and Amulek, and carried them
forth to the place of martyrdom, that they might
witness the destruction of
those who were consumed by fire.

ALM 14:10 And when
Amulek saw the pains of the women and children who were
consuming in the fire,
he also was pained; and he said unto Alma: How can we
witness this awful scene?
Therefore let us stretch forth our hands, and
exercise the power of God which
is in us, and save them from the flames.

ALM 14:11 But Alma said unto him: The
Spirit constraineth me that I must not
stretch forth mine hand; for behold the
Lord receiveth them up unto himself, in
glory; and he doth suffer that they may
do this thing, or that the people may
do this thing unto them, according to the
hardness of their hearts, that the
judgments which he shall exercise upon them
in his wrath may be just; and the
blood of the innocent shall stand as a
witness against them, yea, and cry
mightily against them at the last day.

ALM
14:12 Now Amulek said unto Alma: Behold, perhaps they will burn us also.

ALM
14:13 And Alma said: Be it according to the will of the Lord. But, behold,
our
work is not finished; therefore they burn us not.

ALM 14:14 Now it came to
pass that when the bodies of those who had been cast
into the fire were
consumed, and also the records which were cast in with them,
the chief judge of
the land came and stood before Alma and Amulek, as they were
bound; and he
smote them with his hand upon their cheeks, and said unto them:
After what ye
have seen, will ye preach again unto this people, that they shall
be cast into
a lake of fire and brimstone?

ALM 14:15 Behold, ye see that ye had not power
to save those who had been cast
into the fire; neither has God saved them
because they were of thy faith. And
the judge smote them again upon their
cheeks, and asked: What say ye for
yourselves?

ALM 14:16 Now this judge was
after the order and faith of Nehor, who slew
Gideon.

ALM 14:17 And it came to
pass that Alma and Amulek answered him nothing; and he
smote them again, and
delivered them to the officers to be cast into prison.

ALM 14:18 And when they
had been cast into prison three days, there came many
lawyers, and judges, and
priests, and teachers, who were of the profession of
Nehor; and they came in
unto the prison to see them, and they questioned them
about many words; but
they answered them nothing.

ALM 14:19 And it came to pass that the judge stood
before them, and said: Why
do ye not answer the words of this people? Know ye
not that I have power to
deliver you up unto the flames? And he commanded them
to speak; but they
answered nothing.

ALM 14:20 And it came to pass that they
departed and went their ways, but came
again on the morrow; and the judge also
smote them again on their cheeks. And
many came forth also, and smote them,
saying: Will ye stand again and judge
this people, and condemn our law? If ye
have such great power why do ye not
deliver yourselves?

ALM 14:21 And many
such things did they say unto them, gnashing their teeth
upon them, and
spitting upon them, and saying: How shall we look when we are
damned?

ALM
14:22 And many such things, yea, all manner of such things did they say
unto
them; and thus they did mock them for many days. And they did withhold
food
from them that they might hunger, and water that they might thirst; and
they
also did take from them their clothes that they were naked; and thus they
were
bound with strong cords, and confined in prison.

ALM 14:23 And it came to pass
after they had thus suffered for many days, (and
it was on the twelfth day, in
the tenth month, in the tenth year of the reign
of the judges over the people
of Nephi) that the chief judge over the land of
Ammonihah and many of their
teachers and their lawyers went in unto the prison
where Alma and Amulek were
bound with cords.

ALM 14:24 And the chief judge stood before them, and smote
them again, and said
unto them: If ye have the power of God deliver yourselves
from these bands, and
then we will believe that the Lord will destroy this
people according to your
words.

ALM 14:25 And it came to pass that they all
went forth and smote them, saying
the same words, even until the last; and when
the last had spoken unto them the
power of God was upon Alma and Amulek, and
they rose and stood upon their feet.

ALM 14:26 And Alma cried, saying: How
long shall we suffer these great
afflictions, O Lord? O Lord, give us strength
according to our faith which is
in Christ, even unto deliverance. And they
broke the cords with which they were
bound; and when the people saw this, they
began to flee, for the fear of
destruction had come upon them.

ALM 14:27 And
it came to pass that so great was their fear that they fell to
the earth, and
did not obtain the outer door of the prison; and the earth shook
mightily, and
the walls of the prison were rent in twain, so that they fell to
the earth; and
the chief judge, and the lawyers, and priests, and teachers, who
smote upon
Alma and Amulek, were slain by the fall thereof.

ALM 14:28 And Alma and Amulek
came forth out of the prison, and they were not
hurt; for the Lord had granted
unto them power, according to their faith which
was in Christ. And they
straightway came forth out of the prison; and they were
loosed from their
bands; and the prison had fallen to the earth, and every soul
within the walls
thereof, save it were Alma and Amulek, was slain; and they
straightway came
forth into the city.

ALM 14:29 Now the people having heard a great noise came
running together by
multitudes to know the cause of it; and when they saw Alma
and Amulek coming
forth out of the prison, and the walls thereof had fallen to
the earth, they
were struck with great fear, and fled from the presence of Alma
and Amulek even
as a goat fleeth with her young from two lions; and thus they
did flee from the
presence of Alma and Amulek.

ALM 15:0 Zeezrom, miraculously
healed, joins the church and preaches--Many
baptized--Alma and Amulek return to
Zarahemla.

ALM 15:1 And it came to pass that Alma and Amulek were commanded to
depart out
of that city; and they departed, and came out even into the land of
Sidom; and
behold, there they found all the people who had departed out of the
land of
Ammonihah, who had been cast out and stoned, because they believed in
the words
of Alma.

ALM 15:2 And they related unto them all that had happened
unto their wives and
children, and also concerning themselves, and of their
power of deliverance.

ALM 15:3 And also Zeezrom lay sick at Sidom, with a
burning fever, which was
caused by the great tribulations of his mind on
account of his wickedness, for
he supposed that Alma and Amulek were no more;
and he supposed that they had
been slain because of his iniquity. And this
great sin, and his many other
sins, did harrow up his mind until it did become
exceedingly sore, having no
deliverance; therefore he began to be scorched with
a burning heat.

ALM 15:4 Now, when he heard that Alma and Amulek were in the
land of Sidom, his
heart began to take courage; and he sent a message
immediately unto them,
desiring them to come unto him.

ALM 15:5 And it came to
pass that they went immediately, obeying the message
which he had sent unto
them; and they went in unto the house unto Zeezrom; and
they found him upon his
bed, sick, being very low with a burning fever; and his
mind also was
exceedingly sore because of his iniquities; and when he saw them
he stretched
forth his hand, and besought them that they would heal him.

ALM 15:6 And it
came to pass that Alma said unto him, taking him by the hand:
Believest thou in
the power of Christ unto salvation?

ALM 15:7 And he answered and said: Yea, I
believe all the words that thou hast
taught.

ALM 15:8 And Alma said: If thou
believest in the redemption of Christ thou
canst be healed.

ALM 15:9 And he
said: Yea, I believe according to thy words.

ALM 15:10 And then Alma cried
unto the Lord, saying: O Lord our God, have mercy
on this man, and heal him
according to his faith which is in Christ.

ALM 15:11 And when Alma had said
these words, Zeezrom leaped upon his feet, and
began to walk; and this was done
to the great astonishment of all the people;
and the knowledge of this went
forth throughout all the land of Sidom.

ALM 15:12 And Alma baptized Zeezrom
unto the Lord; and he began from that time
forth to preach unto the people.


ALM 15:13 And Alma established a church in the land of Sidom, and consecrated

priests and teachers in the land, to baptize unto the Lord whosoever were

desirous to be baptized.

ALM 15:14 And it came to pass that they were many;
for they did flock in from
all the region round about Sidom, and were
baptized.

ALM 15:15 But as to the people that were in the land of Ammonihah,
they yet
remained a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people; and they repented
not of
their sins, ascribing all the power of Alma and Amulek to the devil; for
they
were of the profession of Nehor, and did not believe in the repentance of
their
sins.

ALM 15:16 And it came to pass that Alma and Amulek, Amulek having
forsaken all
his gold, and silver, and his precious things, which were in the
land of
Ammonihah, for the word of God, he being rejected by those who were
once his
friends and also by his father and his kindred;

ALM 15:17 Therefore,
after Alma having established the church at Sidom, seeing
a great check, yea,
seeing that the people were checked as to the pride of
their hearts, and began
to humble themselves before God, and began to assemble
themselves together at
their sanctuaries to worship God before the altar,
watching and praying
continually, that they might be delivered from Satan, and
from death, and from
destruction--

ALM 15:18 Now as I said, Alma having seen all these things,
therefore he took
Amulek and came over to the land of Zarahemla, and took him
to his own house,
and did administer unto him in his tribulations, and
strengthened him in the
Lord.

ALM 15:19 And thus ended the tenth year of the
reign of the judges over the
people of Nephi.

ALM 16:0 A cry of war--The
wicked city Ammonihah destroyed by Lamanites--Zoram
and his sons rout the
enemy--Desolation of Nehors--The church widely
established.

ALM 16:1 And it
came to pass in the eleventh year of the reign of the judges
over the people of
Nephi, on the fifth day of the second month, there having
been much peace in
the land of Zarahemla, there having been no wars nor
contentions for a certain
number of years, even until the fifth day of the
second month in the eleventh
year, there was a cry of war heard throughout the
land.

ALM 16:2 For behold,
the armies of the Lamanites had come in upon the
wilderness side, into the
borders of the land, even into the city of Ammonihah,
and began to slay the
people and destroy the city.

ALM 16:3 And now it came to pass, before the
Nephites could raise a sufficient
army to drive them out of the land, they had
destroyed the people who were in
the city of Ammonihah, and also some around
the borders of Noah, and taken
others captive into the wilderness.

ALM 16:4
Now it came to pass that the Nephites were desirous to obtain those
who had
been carried away captive into the wilderness.

ALM 16:5 Therefore, he that had
been appointed chief captain over the armies of
the Nephites, (and his name was
Zoram, and he had two sons, Lehi and Aha)--now
Zoram and his two sons, knowing
that Alma was high priest over the church, and
having heard that he had the
spirit of prophecy, therefore they went unto him
and desired of him to know
whither the Lord would that they should go into the
wilderness in search of
their brethren, who had been taken captive by the
Lamanites.

ALM 16:6 And it
came to pass that Alma inquired of the Lord concerning the
matter. And Alma
returned and said unto them: Behold, the Lamanites will cross
the river Sidon
in the south wilderness, away up beyond the borders of the land
of Manti. And
behold there shall ye meet them, on the east of the river Sidon,
and there the
Lord will deliver unto thee thy brethren who have been taken
captive by the
Lamanites.

ALM 16:7 And it came to pass that Zoram and his sons crossed over
the river
Sidon, with their armies, and marched away beyond the borders of
Manti into the
south wilderness, which was on the east side of the river
Sidon.

ALM 16:8 And they came upon the armies of the Lamanites, and the
Lamanites were
scattered and driven into the wilderness; and they took their
brethren who had
been taken captive by the Lamanites, and there was not one
soul of them had
been lost that were taken captive. And they were brought by
their brethren to
possess their own lands.

ALM 16:9 And thus ended the
eleventh year of the judges, the Lamanites having
been driven out of the land,
and the people of Ammonihah were destroyed; yea,
every living soul of the
Ammonihahites was destroyed, and also their great
city, which they said God
could not destroy, because of its greatness.

ALM 16:10 But behold, in one day
it was left desolate; and the carcasses were
mangled by dogs and wild beasts of
the wilderness.

ALM 16:11 Nevertheless, after many days their dead bodies were
heaped up upon
the face of the earth, and they were covered with a shallow
covering. And now
so great was the scent thereof that the people did not go in
to possess the
land of Ammonihah for many years. And it was called Desolation
of Nehors; for
they were of the profession of Nehor, who were slain; and their
lands remained
desolate.

ALM 16:12 And the Lamanites did not come again to war
against the Nephites
until the fourteenth year of the reign of the judges over
the people of Nephi.
And thus for three years did the people of Nephi have
continual peace in all
the land.

ALM 16:13 And Alma and Amulek went forth
preaching repentance to the people in
their temples, and in their sanctuaries,
and also in their synagogues, which
were built after the manner of the Jews.


ALM 16:14 And as many as would hear their words, unto them they did impart the

word of God, without any respect of persons, continually.

ALM 16:15 And thus
did Alma and Amulek go forth, and also many more who had
been chosen for the
work, to preach the word throughout all the land. And the
establishment of the
church became general throughout the land, in all the
region round about, among
all the people of the Nephites.

ALM 16:16 And there was no inequality among
them; the Lord did pour out his
Spirit on all the face of the land to prepare
the minds of the children of men,
or to prepare their hearts to receive the
word which should be taught among
them at the time of his coming--

ALM 16:17
That they might not be hardened against the word, that they might not
be
unbelieving, and go on to destruction, but that they might receive the word

with joy, and as a branch be grafted into the true vine, that they might enter

into the rest of the Lord their God.

ALM 16:18 Now those priests who did go
forth among the people did preach
against all lyings, and deceivings, and
envyings, and strifes, and malice, and
revilings, and stealing, robbing,
plundering, murdering, committing adultery,
and all manner of lasciviousness,
crying that these things ought not so to be--

ALM 16:19 Holding forth things
which must shortly come; yea, holding forth the
coming of the Son of God, his
sufferings and death, and also the resurrection
of the dead.

ALM 16:20 And
many of the people did inquire concerning the place where the Son
of God should
come; and they were taught that he would appear unto them after
his
resurrection; and this the people did hear with great joy and gladness.

ALM
16:21 And now after the church had been established throughout all the
land--
having got the victory over the devil, and the word of God being preached
in
its purity in all the land, and the Lord pouring out his blessings upon the

people--thus ended the fourteenth year of the reign of the judges over the

people of Nephi.

ALM 17:00 An account of the sons of Mosiah, who rejected
their rights to the
kingdom for the word of God, and went up to the land of
Nephi to preach to the
Lamanites; their sufferings and deliverance--according
to the record of Alma.
Comprising chapters 17 to 26 inclusive.

ALM 17:0 Ammon
in the land of Ishmael--he becomes a servant to king Lamoni--His
heroic defense
of the king's flocks.

ALM 17:1 And now it came to pass that as Alma was
journeying from the land of
Gideon southward, away to the land of Manti,
behold, to his astonishment, he
met with the sons of Mosiah journeying towards
the land of Zarahemla.

ALM 17:2 Now these sons of Mosiah were with Alma at the
time the angel first
appeared unto him; therefore Alma did rejoice exceedingly
to see his brethren;
and what added more to his joy, they were still his
brethren in the Lord; yea,
and they had waxed strong in the knowledge of the
truth; for they were men of a
sound understanding and they had searched the
scriptures diligently, that they
might know the word of God.

ALM 17:3 But this
is not all; they had given themselves to much prayer, and
fasting; therefore
they had the spirit of prophecy, and the spirit of
revelation, and when they
taught, they taught with power and authority of God.

ALM 17:4 And they had
been teaching the word of God for the space of fourteen
years among the
Lamanites, having had much success in bringing many to the
knowledge of the
truth; yea, by the power of their words many were brought
before the altar of
God, to call on his name and confess their sins before him.

ALM 17:5 Now these
are the circumstances which attended them in their
journeyings, for they had
many afflictions; they did suffer much, both in body
and in mind, such as
hunger, thirst and fatigue, and also much labor in the
spirit.

ALM 17:6 Now
these were their journeyings: Having taken leave of their father,
Mosiah, in
the first year of the judges; having refused the kingdom which their
father was
desirous to confer upon them, and also this was the minds of the
people;

ALM
17:7 Nevertheless they departed out of the land of Zarahemla, and took
their
swords, and their spears, and their bows, and their arrows, and their
slings;
and this they did that they might provide food for themselves while in
the
wilderness.

ALM 17:8 And thus they departed into the wilderness with their
numbers which
they had selected, to go up to the land of Nephi, to preach the
word of God
unto the Lamanites.

ALM 17:9 And it came to pass that they
journeyed many days in the wilderness,
and they fasted much and prayed much
that the Lord would grant unto them a
portion of his Spirit to go with them,
and abide with them, that they might be
an instrument in the hands of God to
bring, if it were possible, their
brethren, the Lamanites, to the knowledge of
the truth, to the knowledge of the
baseness of the traditions of their fathers,
which were not correct.

ALM 17:10 And it came to pass that the Lord did visit
them with his Spirit, and
said unto them: Be comforted. And they were
comforted.

ALM 17:11 And the Lord said unto them also: Go forth among the
Lamanites, thy
brethren, and establish my word; yet ye shall be patient in
long-suffering and
afflictions, that ye may show forth good examples unto them
in me, and I will
make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of
many souls.

ALM 17:12 And it came to pass that the hearts of the sons of
Mosiah, and also
those who were with them, took courage to go forth unto the
Lamanites to
declare unto them the word of God.

ALM 17:13 And it came to pass
when they had arrived in the borders of the land
of the Lamanites, that they
separated themselves and departed one from another,
trusting in the Lord that
they should meet again at the close of their harvest;
for they supposed that
great was the work which they had undertaken.

ALM 17:14 And assuredly it was
great, for they had undertaken to preach the
word of God to a wild and a
hardened and a ferocious people; a people who
delighted in murdering the
Nephites, and robbing and plundering them; and their
hearts were set upon
riches, or upon gold and silver, and precious stones; yet
they sought to obtain
these things by murdering and plundering, that they might
not labor for them
with their own hands.

ALM 17:15 Thus they were a very indolent people, many of
whom did worship
idols, and the curse of God had fallen upon them because of
the traditions of
their fathers; notwithstanding the promises of the Lord were
extended unto them
on the conditions of repentance.

ALM 17:16 Therefore, this
was the cause for which the sons of Mosiah had
undertaken the work, that
perhaps they might bring them unto repentance; that
perhaps they might bring
them to know of the plan of redemption.

ALM 17:17 Therefore they separated
themselves one from another, and went forth
among them, every man alone,
according to the word and power of God which was
given unto him.

ALM 17:18 Now
Ammon being the chief among them, or rather he did administer
unto them, and he
departed from them, after having blessed them according to
their several
stations, having imparted the word of God unto them, or
administered unto them
before his departure; and thus they took their several
journeys throughout the
land.

ALM 17:19 And Ammon went to the land of Ishmael, the land being called
after
the sons of Ishmael, who also became Lamanites.

ALM 17:20 And as Ammon
entered the land of Ishmael, the Lamanites took him and
bound him, as was their
custom to bind all the Nephites who fell into their
hands, and carry them
before the king; and thus it was left to the pleasure of
the king to slay them,
or to retain them in captivity, or to cast them into
prison, or to cast them
out of his land, according to his will and pleasure.

ALM 17:21 And thus Ammon
was carried before the king who was over the land of
Ishmael; and his name was
Lamoni; and he was a descendant of Ishmael.

ALM 17:22 And the king inquired of
Ammon if it were his desire to dwell in the
land among the Lamanites, or among
his people.

ALM 17:23 And Ammon said unto him: Yea, I desire to dwell among
this people for
a time; yea, and perhaps until the day I die.

ALM 17:24 And it
came to pass that king Lamoni was much pleased with Ammon, and
caused that his
bands should be loosed; and he would that Ammon should take one
of his
daughters to wife.

ALM 17:25 But Ammon said unto him: Nay, but I will be thy
servant. Therefore
Ammon became a servant to king Lamoni. And it came to pass
that he was set
among other servants to watch the flocks of Lamoni, according
to the custom of
the Lamanites.

ALM 17:26 And after he had been in the service
of the king three days, as he
was with the Lamanitish servants going forth with
their flocks to the place of
water, which was called the water of Sebus, and
all the Lamanites drive their
flocks hither, that they may have water--

ALM
17:27 Therefore, as Ammon and the servants of the king were driving forth
their
flocks to this place of water, behold, a certain number of the Lamanites,
who
had been with their flocks to water, stood and scattered the flocks of
Ammon
and the servants of the king, and they scattered them insomuch that they
fled
many ways.

ALM 17:28 Now the servants of the king began to murmur, saying: Now
the king
will slay us, as he has our brethren because their flocks were
scattered by the
wickedness of these men. And they began to weep exceedingly,
saying: Behold,
our flocks are scattered already.

ALM 17:29 Now they wept
because of the fear of being slain. Now when Ammon saw
this his heart was
swollen within him with joy; for, said he, I will show forth
my power unto
these my fellow-servants, or the power which is in me, in
restoring these
flocks unto the king, that I may win the hearts of these my
fellow-servants,
that I may lead them to believe in my words.

ALM 17:30 And now, these were the
thoughts of Ammon, when he saw the
afflictions of those whom he termed to be
his brethren.

ALM 17:31 And it came to pass that he flattered them by his
words, saying: My
brethren, be of good cheer and let us go in search of the
flocks, and we will
gather them together and bring them back unto the place of
water; and thus we
will preserve the flocks unto the king and he will not slay
us.

ALM 17:32 And it came to pass that they went in search of the flocks, and
they
did follow Ammon, and they rushed forth with much swiftness and did head
the
flocks of the king, and did gather them together again to the place of
water.

ALM 17:33 And those men again stood to scatter their flocks; but Ammon
said
unto his brethren: Encircle the flocks round about that they flee not; and
I go
and contend with these men who do scatter our flocks.

ALM 17:34
Therefore, they did as Ammon commanded them, and he went forth and
stood to
contend with those who stood by the waters of Sebus; and they were in
number
not a few.

ALM 17:35 Therefore they did not fear Ammon, for they supposed that
one of
their men could slay him according to their pleasure, for they knew not
that
the Lord had promised Mosiah that he would deliver his sons out of their
hands;
neither did they know anything concerning the Lord; therefore they
delighted in
the destruction of their brethren; and for this cause they stood
to scatter the
flocks of the king.

ALM 17:36 But Ammon stood forth and began
to cast stones at them with his
sling; yea, with mighty power he did sling
stones amongst them; and thus he
slew a certain number of them insomuch that
they began to be astonished at his
power; nevertheless they were angry because
of the slain of their brethren, and
they were determined that he should fall;
therefore, seeing that they could not
hit him with their stones, they came
forth with clubs to slay him.

ALM 17:37 But behold, every man that lifted his
club to smite Ammon, he smote
off their arms with his sword; for he did
withstand their blows by smiting
their arms with the edge of his sword,
insomuch that they began to be
astonished, and began to flee before him; yea,
and they were not few in number;
and he caused them to flee by the strength of
his arm.

ALM 17:38 Now six of them had fallen by the sling, but he slew none
save it
were their leader with his sword; and he smote off as many of their
arms as
were lifted against him, and they were not a few.

ALM 17:39 And when
he had driven them afar off, he returned and they watered
their flocks and
returned them to the pasture of the king, and then went in
unto the king,
bearing the arms which had been smitten off by the sword of
Ammon, of those who
sought to slay him; and they were carried in unto the king
for a testimony of
the things which they had done.

ALM 18:0 King Lamoni mistakes Ammon for the
Great Spirit--He is taught
concerning the true God--Is overcome by the Spirit
of the Lord.

ALM 18:1 And it came to pass that king Lamoni caused that his
servants should
stand forth and testify to all the things which they had seen
concerning the
matter.

ALM 18:2 And when they had all testified to the things
which they had seen, and
he had learned of the faithfulness of Ammon in
preserving his flocks, and also
of his great power in contending against those
who sought to slay him, he was
astonished exceedingly, and said: Surely, this
is more than a man. Behold, is
not this the Great Spirit who doth send such
great punishments upon this
people, because of their murders?

ALM 18:3 And
they answered the king, and said: Whether he be the Great Spirit
or a man, we
know not; but this much we do know, that he cannot be slain by the
enemies of
the king; neither can they scatter the king's flocks when he is with
us,
because of his expertness and great strength; therefore, we know that he is
a
friend to the king. And now, O king, we do not believe that a man has such

great power, for we know he cannot be slain.

ALM 18:4 And now, when the king
heard these words, he said unto them: Now I
know that it is the Great Spirit;
and he has come down at this time to preserve
your lives, that I might not slay
you as I did your brethren. Now this is the
Great Spirit of whom our fathers
have spoken.

ALM 18:5 Now this was the tradition of Lamoni, which he had
received from his
father, that there was a Great Spirit. Notwithstanding they
believed in a Great
Spirit, they supposed that whatsoever they did was right;
nevertheless, Lamoni
began to fear exceedingly, with fear lest he had done
wrong in slaying his
servants;

ALM 18:6 For he had slain many of them because
their brethren had scattered
their flocks at the place of water; and thus,
because they had had their flocks
scattered they were slain.

ALM 18:7 Now it
was the practice of these Lamanites to stand by the waters of
Sebus to scatter
the flocks of the people, that thereby they might drive away
many that were
scattered unto their own land, it being a practice of plunder
among them.

ALM
18:8 And it came to pass that king Lamoni inquired of his servants, saying:

Where is this man that has such great power?

ALM 18:9 And they said unto him:
Behold, he is feeding thy horses. Now the king
had commanded his servants,
previous to the time of the watering of their
flocks, that they should prepare
his horses and chariots, and conduct him forth
to the land of Nephi; for there
had been a great feast appointed at the land of
Nephi, by the father of Lamoni,
who was king over all the land.

ALM 18:10 Now when king Lamoni heard that
Ammon was preparing his horses and
his chariots he was more astonished, because
of the faithfulness of Ammon,
saying: Surely there has not been any servant
among all my servants that has
been so faithful as this man; for even he doth
remember all my commandments to
execute them.

ALM 18:11 Now I surely know that
this is the Great Spirit, and I would desire
him that he come in unto me, but I
durst not.

ALM 18:12 And it came to pass that when Ammon had made ready the
horses and the
chariots for the king and his servants, he went in unto the
king, and he saw
that the countenance of the king was changed; therefore he was
about to return
out of his presence.

ALM 18:13 And one of the king's servants
said unto him, Rabbanah, which is,
being interpreted, powerful or great king,
considering their kings to be
powerful; and thus he said unto him: Rabbanah,
the king desireth thee to stay.

ALM 18:14 Therefore Ammon turned himself unto
the king, and said unto him: What
wilt thou that I should do for thee, O king?
And the king answered him not for
the space of an hour, according to their
time, for he knew not what he should
say unto him.

ALM 18:15 And it came to
pass that Ammon said unto him again: What desirest
thou of me? But the king
answered him not.

ALM 18:16 And it came to pass that Ammon, being filled with
the Spirit of God,
therefore he perceived the thoughts of the king. And he said
unto him: Is it
because thou hast heard that I defended thy servants and thy
flocks, and slew
seven of their brethren with the sling and with the sword, and
smote off the
arms of others, in order to defend thy flocks and thy servants;
behold, is it
this that causeth thy marvelings?

ALM 18:17 I say unto you, what
is it, that thy marvelings are so great? Behold,
I am a man, and am thy
servant; therefore, whatsoever thou desirest which is
right, that will I do.


ALM 18:18 Now when the king had heard these words, he marveled again, for he

beheld that Ammon could discern his thoughts; but notwithstanding this, king

Lamoni did open his mouth, and said unto him: Who art thou? Art thou that
Great
Spirit, who knows all things?

ALM 18:19 Ammon answered and said unto
him: I am not.

ALM 18:20 And the king said: How knowest thou the thoughts of
my heart? Thou
mayest speak boldly, and tell me concerning these things; and
also tell me by
what power ye slew and smote off the arms of my brethren that
scattered my
flocks--

ALM 18:21 And now, if thou wilt tell me concerning these
things, whatsoever
thou desirest I will give unto thee; and if it were needed,
I would guard thee
with my armies; but I know that thou art more powerful than
all they;
nevertheless, whatsoever thou desirest of me I will grant it unto
thee.

ALM 18:22 Now Ammon being wise, yet harmless, he said unto Lamoni: Wilt
thou
hearken unto my words, if I tell thee by what power I do these things? And
this
is the thing that I desire of thee.

ALM 18:23 And the king answered him,
and said: Yea, I will believe all thy
words. And thus he was caught with
guile.

ALM 18:24 And Ammon began to speak unto him with boldness, and said
unto him:
Believest thou that there is a God?

ALM 18:25 And he answered, and
said unto him: I do not know what that meaneth.

ALM 18:26 And then Ammon said:
Believest thou that there is a Great Spirit?

ALM 18:27 And he said, Yea.

ALM
18:28 And Ammon said: This is God. And Ammon said unto him again: Believest

thou that this Great Spirit, who is God, created all things which are in
heaven
and in the earth?

ALM 18:29 And he said: Yea, I believe that he created
all things which are in
the earth; but I do not know the heavens.

ALM 18:30
And Ammon said unto him: The heavens is a place where God dwells and
all his
holy angels.

ALM 18:31 And king Lamoni said: Is it above the earth?

ALM 18:32
And Ammon said: Yea, and he looketh down upon all the children of
men; and he
knows all the thoughts and intents of the heart; for by his hand
were they all
created from the beginning.

ALM 18:33 And king Lamoni said: I believe all
these things which thou hast
spoken. Art thou sent from God?

ALM 18:34 Ammon
said unto him: I am a man; and man in the beginning was created
after the image
of God, and I am called by his Holy Spirit to teach these
things unto this
people, that they may be brought to a knowledge of that which
is just and
true;

ALM 18:35 And a portion of that Spirit dwelleth in me, which giveth me

knowledge, and also power according to my faith and desires which are in God.


ALM 18:36 Now when Ammon had said these words, he began at the creation of the

world, and also the creation of Adam, and told him all the things concerning

the fall of man, and rehearsed and laid before him the records and the holy

scriptures of the people, which had been spoken by the prophets, even down to

the time that their father, Lehi, left Jerusalem.

ALM 18:37 And he also
rehearsed unto them (for it was unto the king and to his
servants) all the
journeyings of their fathers in the wilderness, and all their
sufferings with
hunger and thirst, and their travail, and so forth.

ALM 18:38 And he also
rehearsed unto them concerning the rebellions of Laman
and Lemuel, and the sons
of Ishmael, yea, all their rebellions did he relate
unto them; and he expounded
unto them all the records and scriptures from the
time that Lehi left Jerusalem
down to the present time.

ALM 18:39 But this is not all; for he expounded unto
them the plan of
redemption, which was prepared from the foundation of the
world; and he also
made known unto them concerning the coming of Christ, and
all the works of the
Lord did he make known unto them.

ALM 18:40 And it came
to pass that after he had said all these things, and
expounded them to the
king, that the king believed all his words.

ALM 18:41 And he began to cry unto
the Lord, saying: O Lord, have mercy;
according to thy abundant mercy which
thou hast had upon the people of Nephi,
have upon me, and my people.

ALM 18:42
And now, when he had said this, he fell unto the earth, as if he were
dead.


ALM 18:43 And it came to pass that his servants took him and carried him in

unto his wife, and laid him upon a bed; and he lay as if he were dead for the

space of two days and two nights; and his wife, and his sons, and his
daughters
mourned over him, after the manner of the Lamanites, greatly
lamenting his
loss.

ALM 19:0 A wonderful conversion--Abish the Lamanite
woman--Lamanite king and
queen espouse the faith--Ammon establishes the church
in Ishmael.

ALM 19:1 And it came to pass that after two days and two nights
they were about
to take his body and lay it in a sepulchre, which they had made
for the purpose
of burying their dead.

ALM 19:2 Now the queen having heard of
the fame of Ammon, therefore she sent
and desired that he should come in unto
her.

ALM 19:3 And it came to pass that Ammon did as he was commanded, and went
in
unto the queen, and desired to know what she would that he should do.

ALM
19:4 And she said unto him: The servants of my husband have made it known
unto
me that thou art a prophet of a holy God, and that thou hast power to do
many
mighty works in his name;

ALM 19:5 Therefore, if this is the case, I would
that ye should go in and see
my husband, for he has been laid upon his bed for
the space of two days and two
nights; and some say that he is not dead, but
others say that he is dead and
that he stinketh, and that he ought to be placed
in the sepulchre; but as for
myself, to me he doth not stink.

ALM 19:6 Now,
this was what Ammon desired, for he knew that king Lamoni was
under the power
of God; he knew that the dark veil of unbelief was being cast
away from his
mind, and the light which did light up his mind, which was the
light of the
glory of God, which was a marvelous light of his goodness--yea,
this light had
infused such joy into his soul, the cloud of darkness having
been dispelled,
and that the light of everlasting life was lit up in his soul,
yea, he knew
that this had overcome his natural frame, and he was carried away
in God--

ALM
19:7 Therefore, what the queen desired of him was his only desire.
Therefore,
he went in to see the king according as the queen had desired him;
and he saw
the king, and he knew that he was not dead.

ALM 19:8 And he said unto the
queen: He is not dead, but he sleepeth in God,
and on the morrow he shall rise
again; therefore bury him not.

ALM 19:9 And Ammon said unto her: Believest
thou this? And she said unto him: I
have had no witness save thy word, and the
word of our servants; nevertheless I
believe that it shall be according as thou
hast said.

ALM 19:10 And Ammon said unto her: Blessed art thou because of thy
exceeding
faith; I say unto thee, woman, there has not been such great faith
among all
the people of the Nephites.

ALM 19:11 And it came to pass that she
watched over the bed of her husband,
from that time even until that time on the
morrow which Ammon had appointed
that he should rise.

ALM 19:12 And it came to
pass that he arose, according to the words of Ammon;
and as he arose, he
stretched forth his hand unto the woman, and said: Blessed
be the name of God,
and blessed art thou.

ALM 19:13 For as sure as thou livest, behold, I have
seen my Redeemer; and he
shall come forth, and be born of a woman, and he shall
redeem all mankind who
believe on his name. Now, when he had said these words,
his heart was swollen
within him, and he sunk again with joy; and the queen
also sunk down, being
overpowered by the Spirit.

ALM 19:14 Now Ammon seeing
the Spirit of the Lord poured out according to his
prayers upon the Lamanites,
his brethren, who had been the cause of so much
mourning among the Nephites, or
among all the people of God because of their
iniquities and their traditions,
he fell upon his knees, and began to pour out
his soul in prayer and
thanksgiving to God for what he had done for his
brethren; and he was also
overpowered with joy; and thus they all three had
sunk to the earth.

ALM 19:15
Now, when the servants of the king had seen that they had fallen,
they also
began to cry unto God, for the fear of the Lord had come upon them
also, for it
was they who had stood before the king and testified unto him
concerning the
great power of Ammon.

ALM 19:16 And it came to pass that they did call on the
name of the Lord, in
their might, even until they had all fallen to the earth,
save it were one of
the Lamanitish women, whose name was Abish, she having been
converted unto the
Lord for many years, on account of a remarkable vision of
her father--

ALM 19:17 Thus, having been converted to the Lord, and never
having made it
known, therefore, when she saw that all the servants of Lamoni
had fallen to
the earth, and also her mistress, the queen, and the king, and
Ammon lay
prostrate upon the earth, she knew that it was the power of God; and
supposing
that this opportunity, by making known unto the people what had
happened among
them, that by beholding this scene it would cause them to
believe in the power
of God, therefore she ran forth from house to house,
making it known unto the
people.

ALM 19:18 And they began to assemble
themselves together unto the house of the
king. And there came a multitude, and
to their astonishment, they beheld the
king, and the queen, and their servants
prostrate upon the earth, and they all
lay there as though they were dead; and
they also saw Ammon, and behold, he was
a Nephite.

ALM 19:19 And now the
people began to murmur among themselves; some saying that
it was a great evil
that had come upon them, or upon the king and his house,
because he had
suffered that the Nephite should remain in the land.

ALM 19:20 But others
rebuked them, saying: The king hath brought this evil upon
his house, because
he slew his servants who had had their flocks scattered at
the waters of
Sebus.

ALM 19:21 And they were also rebuked by those men who had stood at the
waters
of Sebus and scattered the flocks which belonged to the king, for they
were
angry with Ammon because of the number which he had slain of their
brethren at
the waters of Sebus, while defending the flocks of the king.

ALM
19:22 Now, one of them, whose brother had been slain with the sword of
Ammon,
being exceedingly angry with Ammon, drew his sword and went forth that
he might
let it fall upon Ammon, to slay him; and as he lifted the sword to
smite him,
behold, he fell dead.

ALM 19:23 Now we see that Ammon could not be slain, for
the Lord had said unto
Mosiah, his father: I will spare him, and it shall be
unto him according to thy
faith--therefore, Mosiah trusted him unto the Lord.


ALM 19:24 And it came to pass that when the multitude beheld that the man had

fallen dead, who lifted the sword to slay Ammon, fear came upon them all, and

they durst not put forth their hands to touch him or any of those who had

fallen; and they began to marvel again among themselves what could be the
cause
of this great power, or what all these things could mean.

ALM 19:25 And
it came to pass that there were many among them who said that
Ammon was the
Great Spirit, and others said he was sent by the Great Spirit;

ALM 19:26 But
others rebuked them all, saying that he was a monster, who had
been sent from
the Nephites to torment them.

ALM 19:27 And there were some who said that
Ammon was sent by the Great Spirit
to afflict them because of their iniquities;
and that it was the Great Spirit
that had always attended the Nephites, who had
ever delivered them out of their
hands; and they said that it was this Great
Spirit who had destroyed so many of
their brethren, the Lamanites.

ALM 19:28
And thus the contention began to be exceedingly sharp among them. And
while
they were thus contending, the woman servant who had caused the multitude
to be
gathered together came, and when she saw the contention which was among
the
multitude she was exceedingly sorrowful, even unto tears.

ALM 19:29 And it
came to pass that she went and took the queen by the hand,
that perhaps she
might raise her from the ground; and as soon as she touched
her hand she arose
and stood upon her feet, and cried with a loud voice,
saying: O blessed Jesus,
who has saved me from an awful hell! O blessed God,
have mercy on this people!

ALM 19:30 And when she had said this, she clasped her hands, being filled with

joy, speaking many words which were not understood; and when she had done
this,
she took the king, Lamoni, by the hand, and behold he arose and stood
upon his
feet.

ALM 19:31 And he, immediately, seeing the contention among his
people, went
forth and began to rebuke them, and to teach them the words which
he had heard
from the mouth of Ammon; and as many as heard his words believed,
and were
converted unto the Lord.

ALM 19:32 But there were many among them who
would not hear his words;
therefore they went their way.

ALM 19:33 And it came
to pass that when Ammon arose he also administered unto
them, and also did all
the servants of Lamoni; and they did all declare unto
the people the selfsame
thing--that their hearts had been changed; that they
had no more desire to do
evil.

ALM 19:34 And behold, many did declare unto the people that they had
seen
angels and had conversed with them; and thus they had told them things of
God,
and of his righteousness.

ALM 19:35 And it came to pass that there were
many that did believe in their
words; and as many as did believe were baptized;
and they became a righteous
people, and they did establish a church among
them.

ALM 19:36 And thus the work of the Lord did commence among the
Lamanites; thus
the Lord did begin to pour out his Spirit upon them; and we see
that his arm is
extended to all people who will repent and believe on his
name.

ALM 20:0 Ammon and king Lamoni journey to Middoni--the meet Lamoni's
father who
is king over all the land--Hostile at first, he relents, and grants
great
favors.

ALM 20:1 And it came to pass that when they had established a
church in that
land, that king Lamoni desired that Ammon should go with him to
the land of
Nephi, that he might show him unto his father.

ALM 20:2 And the
voice of the Lord came to Ammon, saying: Thou shalt not go up
to the land of
Nephi, for behold, the king will seek thy life; but thou shalt
go to the land
of Middoni; for behold, thy brother Aaron, and also Muloki and
Ammah are in
prison.

ALM 20:3 Now it came to pass that when Ammon had heard this, he said
unto
Lamoni: Behold, my brother and brethren are in prison at Middoni, and I go
that
I may deliver them.

ALM 20:4 Now Lamoni said unto Ammon: I know, in the
strength of the Lord thou
canst do all things. But behold, I will go with thee
to the land of Middoni;
for the king of the land of Middoni, whose name is
Antiomno, is a friend unto
me; therefore I go to the land of Middoni, that I
may flatter the king of the
land, and he will cast thy brethren out of prison.
Now Lamoni said unto him:
Who told thee that thy brethren were in prison?

ALM
20:5 And Ammon said unto him: No one hath told me, save it be God; and he
said
unto me--Go and deliver thy brethren, for they are in prison in the land
of
Middoni.

ALM 20:6 Now when Lamoni had heard this he caused that his servants
should make
ready his horses and his chariots.

ALM 20:7 And he said unto
Ammon: Come, I will go with thee down to the land of
Middoni, and there I will
plead with the king that he will cast thy brethren
out of prison.

ALM 20:8 And
it came to pass that as Ammon and Lamoni were journeying thither,
they met the
father of Lamoni, who was king over all the land.

ALM 20:9 And behold, the
father of Lamoni said unto him: Why did ye not come to
the feast on that great
day when I made a feast unto my sons, and unto my
people?

ALM 20:10 And he
also said: Whither art thou going with this Nephite, who is
one of the children
of a liar?

ALM 20:11 And it came to pass that Lamoni rehearsed unto him
whither he was
going, for he feared to offend him.

ALM 20:12 And he also told
him all the cause of his tarrying in his own
kingdom, that he did not go unto
his father to the feast which he had prepared.

ALM 20:13 And now when Lamoni
had rehearsed unto him all these things, behold,
to his astonishment, his
father was angry with him, and said: Lamoni, thou art
going to deliver these
Nephites, who are sons of a liar. Behold, he robbed our
fathers; and now his
children are also come amongst us that they may, by their
cunning and their
lyings, deceive us, that they again may rob us of our
property.

ALM 20:14 Now
the father of Lamoni commanded him that he should slay Ammon with
the sword.
And he also commanded him that he should not go to the land of
Middoni, but
that he should return with him to the land of Ishmael.

ALM 20:15 But Lamoni
said unto him: I will not slay Ammon, neither will I
return to the land of
Ishmael, but I go to the land of Middoni that I may
release the brethren of
Ammon, for I know that they are just men and holy
prophets of the true God.


ALM 20:16 Now when his father had heard these words, he was angry with him,
and
he drew his sword that he might smite him to the earth.

ALM 20:17 But
Ammon stood forth and said unto him: Behold, thou shalt not slay
thy son;
nevertheless, it were better that he should fall than thee, for
behold, he has
repented of his sins; but if thou shouldst fall at this time, in
thine anger,
thy soul could not be saved.

ALM 20:18 And again, it is expedient that thou
shouldst forbear; for if thou
shouldst slay thy son, he being an innocent man,
his blood would cry from the
ground to the Lord his God, for vengeance to come
upon thee; and perhaps thou
wouldst lose thy soul.

ALM 20:19 Now when Ammon
had said these words unto him, he answered him,
saying: I know that if I should
slay my son, that I should shed innocent blood;
for it is thou that hast sought
to destroy him.

ALM 20:20 And he stretched forth his hand to slay Ammon. But
Ammon withstood
his blows, and also smote his arm that he could not use it.


ALM 20:21 Now when the king saw that Ammon could slay him, he began to plead

with Ammon that he would spare his life.

ALM 20:22 But Ammon raised his sword,
and said unto him: Behold, I will smite
thee except thou wilt grant unto me
that my brethren may be cast out of prison.

ALM 20:23 Now the king, fearing he
should lose his life, said: If thou wilt
spare me I will grant unto thee
whatsoever thou wilt ask, even to half of the
kingdom.

ALM 20:24 Now when
Ammon saw that he had wrought upon the old king according to
his desire, he
said unto him: If thou wilt grant that my brethren may be cast
out of prison,
and also that Lamoni may retain his kingdom, and that ye be not
displeased with
him, but grant that he may do according to his own desires in
whatsoever thing
he thinketh, then will I spare thee; otherwise I will smite
thee to the earth.

ALM 20:25 Now when Ammon had said these words, the king began to rejoice

because of his life.

ALM 20:26 And when he saw that Ammon had no desire to
destroy him, and when he
also saw the great love he had for his son Lamoni, he
was astonished
exceedingly, and said: Because this is all that thou hast
desired, that I would
release thy brethren, and suffer that my son Lamoni
should retain his kingdom,
behold, I will grant unto you that my son may retain
his kingdom from this time
and forever; and I will govern him no more--

ALM
20:27 And I will also grant unto thee that thy brethren may be cast out of

prison, and thou and thy brethren may come unto me, in my kingdom; for I shall

greatly desire to see thee. For the king was greatly astonished at the words

which he had spoken, and also at the words which had been spoken by his son

Lamoni, therefore he was desirous to learn them.

ALM 20:28 And it came to pass
that Ammon and Lamoni proceeded on their journey
towards the land of Middoni.
And Lamoni found favor in the eyes of the king of
the land; therefore the
brethren of Ammon were brought forth out of prison.

ALM 20:29 And when Ammon
did meet them he was exceedingly sorrowful, for behold
they were naked, and
their skins were worn exceedingly because of being bound
with strong cords. And
they also had suffered hunger, thirst, and all kinds of
afflictions;
nevertheless they were patient in all their sufferings.

ALM 20:30 And, as it
happened, it was their lot to have fallen into the hands
of a more hardened and
a more stiffnecked people; therefore they would not
hearken unto their words,
and they had cast them out, and had smitten them, and
had driven them from
house to house, and from place to place, even until they
had arrived in the
land of Middoni; and there they were taken and cast into
prison, and bound with
strong cords, and kept in prison for many days, and were
delivered by Lamoni
and Ammon.

ALM 21:00 An account of the preaching of Aaron, and Muloki, and
their brethren,
to the Lamanites. Comprising chapters 21 to 26 inclusive.

ALM
21:0 Rejected by the Amalekites, Aaron and Muloki go to Middoni--They are

imprisoned--Their release and missionary labors--Ammon's further
success--
Synagogues built.

ALM 21:1 Now when Ammon and his brethren separated
themselves in the borders of
the land of the Lamanites, behold Aaron took his
journey towards the land which
was called by the Lamanites, Jerusalem, calling
it after the land of their
fathers' nativity; and it was away joining the
borders of Mormon.

ALM 21:2 Now the Lamanites and the Amalekites and the
people of Amulon had
built a great city, which was called Jerusalem.

ALM 21:3
Now the Lamanites of themselves were sufficiently hardened, but the
Amalekites
and the Amulonites were still harder; therefore they did cause the
Lamanites
that they should harden their hearts, that they should wax strong in
wickedness
and their abominations.

ALM 21:4 And it came to pass that Aaron came to the
city of Jerusalem, and
first began to preach to the Amalekites. And he began to
preach to them in
their synagogues, for they had built synagogues after the
order of the Nehors;
for many of the Amalekites and the Amulonites were after
the order of the
Nehors.

ALM 21:5 Therefore, as Aaron entered into one of
their synagogues to preach
unto the people, and as he was speaking unto them,
behold there arose an
Amalekite and began to contend with him, saying: What is
that thou hast
testified? Hast thou seen an angel? Why do not angels appear
unto us? Behold
are not this people as good as thy people?

ALM 21:6 Thou also
sayest, except we repent we shall perish. How knowest thou
the thought and
intent of our hearts? How knowest thou that we have cause to
repent? How
knowest thou that we are not a righteous people? Behold, we have
built
sanctuaries, and we do assemble ourselves together to worship God. We do

believe that God will save all men.

ALM 21:7 Now Aaron said unto him:
Believest thou that the Son of God shall come
to redeem mankind from their
sins?

ALM 21:8 And the man said unto him: We do not believe that thou knowest
any
such thing. We do not believe in these foolish traditions. We do not
believe
that thou knowest of things to come, neither do we believe that thy
fathers and
also that our fathers did know concerning the things which they
spake, of that
which is to come.

ALM 21:9 Now Aaron began to open the
scriptures unto them concerning the coming
of Christ, and also concerning the
resurrection of the dead, and that there
could be no redemption for mankind
save it were through the death and
sufferings of Christ, and the atonement of
his blood.

ALM 21:10 And it came to pass as he began to expound these things
unto them
they were angry with him, and began to mock him; and they would not
hear the
words which he spake.

ALM 21:11 Therefore, when he saw that they
would not hear his words, he
departed out of their synagogue, and came over to
a village which was called
Ani-Anti, and there he found Muloki preaching the
word unto them; and also
Ammah and his brethren. And they contended with many
about the word.

ALM 21:12 And it came to pass that they saw that the people
would harden their
hearts, therefore they departed and came over into the land
of Middoni. And
they did preach the word unto many, and few believed on the
words which they
taught.

ALM 21:13 Nevertheless, Aaron and a certain number of
his brethren were taken
and cast into prison, and the remainder of them fled
out of the land of Middoni
unto the regions round about.

ALM 21:14 And those
who were cast into prison suffered many things, and they
were delivered by the
hand of Lamoni and Ammon, and they were fed and clothed.

ALM 21:15 And they
went forth again to declare the word, and thus they were
delivered for the
first time out of prison; and thus they had suffered.

ALM 21:16 And they went
forth whithersoever they were led by the Spirit of the
Lord, preaching the word
of God in every synagogue of the Amalekites, or in
every assembly of the
Lamanites where they could be admitted.

ALM 21:17 And it came to pass that the
Lord began to bless them, insomuch that
they brought many to the knowledge of
the truth; yea, they did convince many of
their sins, and of the traditions of
their fathers, which were not correct.

ALM 21:18 And it came to pass that
Ammon and Lamoni returned from the land of
Middoni to the land of Ishmael,
which was the land of their inheritance.

ALM 21:19 And king Lamoni would not
suffer that Ammon should serve him, or be
his servant.

ALM 21:20 But he caused
that there should be synagogues built in the land of
Ishmael; and he caused
that his people, or the people who were under his reign,
should assemble
themselves together.

ALM 21:21 And he did rejoice over them, and he did teach
them many things. And
he did also declare unto them that they were a people who
were under him, and
that they were a free people, that they were free from the
oppressions of the
king, his father; for that his father had granted unto him
that he might reign
over the people who were in the land of Ishmael, and in all
the land round
about.

ALM 21:22 And he also declared unto them that they might
have the liberty of
worshiping the Lord their God according to their desires,
in whatsoever place
they were in, if it were in the land which was under the
reign of king Lamoni.

ALM 21:23 And Ammon did preach unto the people of king
Lamoni; and it came to
pass that he did teach them all things concerning things
pertaining to
righteousness. And he did exhort them daily, with all diligence;
and they gave
heed unto his word, and they were zealous for keeping the
commandments of God.

ALM 22:0 Aaron in the land of Nephi--The king and all his
household
converted--Country divided between Nephites and Lamanites.

ALM 22:1
Now, as Ammon was thus teaching the people of Lamoni continually, we
will
return to the account of Aaron and his brethren; for after he departed
from the
land of Middoni he was led by the Spirit to the land of Nephi, even to
the
house of the king which was over all the land save it were the land of
Ishmael;
and he was the father of Lamoni.

ALM 22:2 And it came to pass that he went in
unto him into the king's palace,
with his brethren, and bowed himself before
the king, and said unto him:
Behold, O king, we are the brethren of Ammon, whom
thou hast delivered out of
prison.

ALM 22:3 And now, O king, if thou wilt
spare our lives, we will be thy
servants. And the king said unto them: Arise,
for I will grant unto you your
lives, and I will not suffer that ye shall be my
servants; but I will insist
that ye shall administer unto me; for I have been
somewhat troubled in mind
because of the generosity and the greatness of the
words of thy brother Ammon;
and I desire to know the cause why he has not come
up out of Middoni with thee.

ALM 22:4 And Aaron said unto the king: Behold,
the Spirit of the Lord has
called him another way; he has gone to the land of
Ishmael, to teach the people
of Lamoni.

ALM 22:5 Now the king said unto them:
What is this that ye have said concerning
the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, this
is the thing which doth trouble me.

ALM 22:6 And also, what is this that Ammon
said--If ye will repent ye shall be
saved, and if ye will not repent, ye shall
be cast off at the last day?

ALM 22:7 And Aaron answered him and said unto
him: Believest thou that there is
a God? And the king said: I know that the
Amalekites say that there is a God,
and I have granted unto them that they
should build sanctuaries, that they may
assemble themselves together to worship
him. And if now thou sayest there is a
God, behold I will believe.

ALM 22:8
And now when Aaron heard this, his heart began to rejoice, and he
said: Behold,
assuredly as thou livest, O king, there is a God.

ALM 22:9 And the king said:
Is God that Great Spirit that brought our fathers
out of the land of
Jerusalem?

ALM 22:10 And Aaron said unto him: Yea, he is that Great Spirit,
and he created
all things both in heaven and in earth. Believest thou this?


ALM 22:11 And he said: Yea, I believe that the Great Spirit created all
things,
and I desire that ye should tell me concerning all these things, and I
will
believe thy words.

ALM 22:12 And it came to pass that when Aaron saw that
the king would believe
his words, he began from the creation of Adam, reading
the scriptures unto the
king--how God created man after his own image, and that
God gave him
commandments, and that because of transgression, man had fallen.


ALM 22:13 And Aaron did expound unto him the scriptures from the creation of

Adam, laying the fall of man before him, and their carnal state and also the

plan of redemption, which was prepared from the foundation of the world,

through Christ, for all whosoever would believe on his name.

ALM 22:14 And
since man had fallen he could not merit anything of himself; but
the sufferings
and death of Christ atone for their sins, through faith and
repentance, and so
forth; and that he breaketh the bands of death, that the
grave shall have no
victory, and that the sting of death should be swallowed up
in the hopes of
glory; and Aaron did expound all these things unto the king.

ALM 22:15 And it
came to pass that after Aaron had expounded these things unto
him, the king
said: What shall I do that I may have this eternal life of which
thou hast
spoken? Yea, what shall I do that I may be born of God, having this
wicked
spirit rooted out of my breast, and receive his Spirit, that I may be
filled
with joy, that I may not be cast off at the last day? Behold, said he, I
will
give up all that I possess, yea, I will forsake my kingdom, that I may
receive
this great joy.

ALM 22:16 But Aaron said unto him: If thou desirest this
thing, if thou wilt
bow down before God, yea, if thou wilt repent of all thy
sins, and will bow
down before God, and call on his name in faith, believing
that ye shall
receive, then shalt thou receive the hope which thou desirest.


ALM 22:17 And it came to pass that when Aaron had said these words, the king

did bow down before the Lord, upon his knees; yea, even he did prostrate

himself upon the earth, and cried mightily, saying:

ALM 22:18 O God, Aaron
hath told me that there is a God; and if there is a God,
and if thou art God,
wilt thou make thyself known unto me, and I will give away
all my sins to know
thee, and that I may be raised from the dead, and be saved
at the last day. And
now when the king had said these words, he was struck as
if he were dead.

ALM
22:19 And it came to pass that his servants ran and told the queen all that
had
happened unto the king. And she came in unto the king; and when she saw him
lay
as if he were dead, and also Aaron and his brethren standing as though they
had
been the cause of his fall, she was angry with them, and commanded that her

servants, or the servants of the king, should take them and slay them.

ALM
22:20 Now the servants had seen the cause of the king's fall, therefore
they
durst not lay their hands on Aaron and his brethren; and they pled with
the
queen saying: Why commandest thou that we should slay these men, when
behold
one of them is mightier than us all? Therefore we shall fall before
them.

ALM
22:21 Now when the queen saw the fear of the servants she also began to
fear
exceedingly, lest there should some evil come upon her. And she commanded
her
servants that they should go and call the people, that they might slay
Aaron
and his brethren.

ALM 22:22 Now when Aaron saw the determination of the queen,
he, also knowing
the hardness of the hearts of the people, feared lest that a
multitude should
assemble themselves together, and there should be a great
contention and a
disturbance among them; therefore he put forth his hand and
raised the king
from the earth, and said unto him: Stand. And he stood upon his
feet, receiving
his strength.

ALM 22:23 Now this was done in the presence of
the queen and many of the
servants. And when they saw it they greatly marveled,
and began to fear. And
the king stood forth, and began to minister unto them.
And he did minister unto
them, insomuch that his whole household were converted
unto the Lord.

ALM 22:24 Now there was a multitude gathered together because
of the
commandment of the queen, and there began to be great murmurings among
them
because of Aaron and his brethren.

ALM 22:25 But the king stood forth
among them and administered unto them. And
they were pacified towards Aaron and
those who were with him.

ALM 22:26 And it came to pass that when the king saw
that the people were
pacified, he caused that Aaron and his brethren should
stand forth in the midst
of the multitude, and that they should preach the word
unto them.

ALM 22:27 And it came to pass that the king sent a proclamation
throughout all
the land, amongst all his people who were in all his land, who
were in all the
regions round about, which was bordering even to the sea, on
the east and on
the west, and which was divided from the land of Zarahemla by a
narrow strip of
wilderness, which ran from the sea east even to the sea west,
and round about
on the borders of the seashore, and the borders of the
wilderness which was on
the north by the land of Zarahemla, through the borders
of Manti, by the head
of the river Sidon, running from the east towards the
west--and thus were the
Lamanites and the Nephites divided.

ALM 22:28 Now, the
more idle part of the Lamanites lived in the wilderness, and
dwelt in tents;
and they were spread through the wilderness on the west, in the
land of Nephi;
yea, and also on the west of the land of Zarahemla, in the
borders by the
seashore, and on the west in the land of Nephi, in the place of
their fathers'
first inheritance, and thus bordering along by the seashore.

ALM 22:29 And
also there were many Lamanites on the east by the seashore,
whither the
Nephites had driven them. And thus the Nephites were nearly
surrounded by the
Lamanites; nevertheless the Nephites had taken possession of
all the northern
parts of the land bordering on the wilderness, at the head of
the river Sidon,
from the east to the west, round about on the wilderness side;
on the north,
even until they came to the land which they called Bountiful.

ALM 22:30 And it
bordered upon the land which they called Desolation, it being
so far northward
that it came into the land which had been peopled and been
destroyed, of whose
bones we have spoken, which was discovered by the people of
Zarahemla, it being
the place of their first landing.

ALM 22:31 And they came from there up into
the south wilderness. Thus the land
on the northward was called Desolation, and
the land on the southward was
called Bountiful, it being the wilderness which
is filled with all manner of
wild animals of every kind, a part of which had
come from the land northward
for food.

ALM 22:32 And now, it was only the
distance of a day and a half's journey for a
Nephite, on the line Bountiful and
the land Desolation, from the east to the
west sea; and thus the land of Nephi
and the land of Zarahemla were nearly
surrounded by water, there being a small
neck of land between the land
northward and the land southward.

ALM 22:33 And
it came to pass that the Nephites had inhabited the land
Bountiful, even from
the east unto the west sea, and thus the Nephites in their
wisdom, with their
guards and their armies, had hemmed in the Lamanites on the
south, that thereby
they should have no more possession on the north, that they
might not overrun
the land northward.

ALM 22:34 Therefore the Lamanites could have no more
possessions only in the
land of Nephi, and the wilderness round about. Now this
was wisdom in the
Nephites--as the Lamanites were an enemy to them, they would
not suffer their
afflictions on every hand, and also that they might have a
country whither they
might flee, according to their desires.

ALM 22:35 And now
I, after having said this, return again to the account of
Ammon and Aaron,
Omner and Himni, and their brethren.

ALM 23:0 Religious freedom is
proclaimed--Many Lamanites converted--Amalekites
and Amulonites reject the
truth--The Anti-Nephi-Lehies.

ALM 23:1 Behold, now it came to pass that the
king of the Lamanites sent a
proclamation among all his people, that they
should not lay their hands on
Ammon, or Aaron, or Omner, or Himni, nor either
of their brethren who should go
forth preaching the word of God, in whatsoever
place they should be, in any
part of their land.

ALM 23:2 Yea, he sent a
decree among them, that they should not lay their hands
on them to bind them,
or to cast them into prison; neither should they spit
upon them, nor smite
them, nor cast them out of their synagogues, nor scourge
them; neither should
they cast stones at them, but that they should have free
access to their
houses, and also their temples, and their sanctuaries.

ALM 23:3 And thus they
might go forth and preach the word according to their
desires, for the king had
been converted unto the Lord, and all his household;
therefore he sent his
proclamation throughout the land unto his people, that
the word of God might
have no obstruction, but that it might go forth
throughout all the land, that
his people might be convinced concerning the
wicked traditions of their
fathers, and that they might be convinced that they
were all brethren, and that
they ought not to murder, nor to plunder, nor to
steal, nor to commit adultery,
nor to commit any manner of wickedness.

ALM 23:4 And now it came to pass that
when the king had sent forth this
proclamation, that Aaron and his brethren
went forth from city to city, and
from one house of worship to another,
establishing churches, and consecrating
priests and teachers throughout the
land among the Lamanites, to preach and to
teach the word of God among them;
and thus they began to have great success.

ALM 23:5 And thousands were brought
to the knowledge of the Lord, yea,
thousands were brought to believe in the
traditions of the Nephites; and they
were taught the records and prophecies
which were handed down even to the
present time.

ALM 23:6 And as sure as the
Lord liveth, so sure as many as believed, or as
many as were brought to the
knowledge of the truth, through the preaching of
Ammon and his brethren,
according to the spirit of revelation and of prophecy,
and the power of God
working miracles in them--yea, I say unto you, as the Lord
liveth, as many of
the Lamanites as believed in their preaching, and were
converted unto the Lord,
never did fall away.

ALM 23:7 For they became a righteous people; they did lay
down the weapons of
their rebellion, that they did not fight against God any
more, neither against
any of their brethren.

ALM 23:8 Now, these are they who
were converted unto the Lord:

ALM 23:9 The people of the Lamanites who were in
the land of Ishmael;

ALM 23:10 And also of the people of the Lamanites who
were in the land of
Middoni;

ALM 23:11 And also of the people of the Lamanites
who were in the city of
Nephi;

ALM 23:12 And also of the people of the
Lamanites who were in the land of
Shilom, and who were in the land of Shemlon,
and in the city of Lemuel, and in
the city of Shimnilom.

ALM 23:13 And these
are the names of the cities of the Lamanites which were
converted unto the
Lord; and these are they that laid down the weapons of their
rebellion, yea,
all their weapons of war; and they were all Lamanites.

ALM 23:14 And the
Amalekites were not converted, save only one; neither were
any of the
Amulonites; but they did harden their hearts, and also the hearts of
the
Lamanites in that part of the land wheresoever they dwelt, yea, and all
their
villages and all their cities.

ALM 23:15 Therefore, we have named all the
cities of the Lamanites in which
they did repent and come to the knowledge of
the truth, and were converted.

ALM 23:16 And now it came to pass that the king
and those who were converted
were desirous that they might have a name, that
thereby they might be
distinguished from their brethren; therefore the king
consulted with Aaron and
many of their priests, concerning the name that they
should take upon them,
that they might be distinguished.

ALM 23:17 And it came
to pass that they called their names Anti-Nephi-Lehies;
and they were called by
this name and were no more called Lamanites.

ALM 23:18 And they began to be a
very industrious people; yea, and they were
friendly with the Nephites;
therefore, they did open a correspondence with
them, and the curse of God did
no more follow them.

ALM 24:0 Lamanites come against the people of God--
Converted Lamanites refuse
to take up arms--More conversions.

ALM 24:1 And it
came to pass that the Amalekites and the Amulonites and the
Lamanites who were
in the land of Amulon, and also in the land of Helam, and
who were in the land
of Jerusalem, and in fine, in all the land round about,
who had not been
converted and had not taken upon them the name of
Anti-Nephi-Lehi, were stirred
up by the Amalekites and by the Amulonites to
anger against their brethren.


ALM 24:2 And their hatred became exceedingly sore against them, even insomuch

that they began to rebel against their king, insomuch that they would not that

he should be their king; therefore, they took up arms against the people of

Anti-Nephi-Lehi.

ALM 24:3 Now the king conferred the kingdom upon his son, and
he called his
name Anti-Nephi-Lehi.

ALM 24:4 And the king died in that
selfsame year that the Lamanites began to
make preparations for war against the
people of God.

ALM 24:5 Now when Ammon and his brethren and all those who had
come up with him
saw the preparations of the Lamanites to destroy their
brethren, they came
forth to the land of Midian, and there Ammon met all his
brethren; and from
thence they came to the land of Ishmael that they might hold
a council with
Lamoni and also with his brother Anti-Nephi-Lehi, what they
should do to defend
themselves against the Lamanites.

ALM 24:6 Now there was
not one soul among all the people who had been converted
unto the Lord that
would take up arms against their brethren; nay, they would
not even make any
preparations for war; yea, and also their king commanded them
that they should
not.

ALM 24:7 Now, these are the words which he said unto the people
concerning the
matter: I thank my God, my beloved people, that our great God
has in goodness
sent these our brethren, the Nephites, unto us to preach unto
us, and to
convince us of the traditions of our wicked fathers.

ALM 24:8 And
behold, I thank my great God that he has given us a portion of his
Spirit to
soften our hearts, that we have opened a correspondence with these
brethren,
the Nephites.

ALM 24:9 And behold, I also thank my God, that by opening this
correspondence
we have been convinced of our sins, and of the many murders
which we have
committed.

ALM 24:10 And I also thank my God, yea, my great God,
that he hath granted unto
us that we might repent of these things, and also
that he hath forgiven us of
those our many sins and murders which we have
committed, and taken away the
guilt from our hearts, through the merits of his
Son.

ALM 24:11 And now behold, my brethren, since it has been all that we
could do,
(as we were the most lost of all mankind) to repent of all our sins
and the
many murders which we have committed, and to get God to take them away
from our
hearts, for it was all we could do to repent sufficiently before God
that he
would take away our stain--

ALM 24:12 Now, my best beloved brethren,
since God hath taken away our stains,
and our swords have become bright, then
let us stain our swords no more with
the blood of our brethren.

ALM 24:13
Behold, I say unto you, Nay, let us retain our swords that they be
not stained
with the blood of our brethren; for perhaps, if we should stain our
swords
again they can no more be washed bright through the blood of the Son of
our
great God, which shall be shed for the atonement of our sins.

ALM 24:14 And
the great God has had mercy on us, and made these things known
unto us that we
might not perish; yea, and he has made these things known unto
us beforehand,
because he loveth our souls as well as he loveth our children;
therefore, in
his mercy he doth visit us by his angels, that the plan of
salvation might be
made known unto us as well as unto future generations.

ALM 24:15 Oh, how
merciful is our God! And now behold, since it has been as
much as we could do
to get our stains taken away from us, and our swords are
made bright, let us
hide them away that they may be kept bright, as a testimony
to our God at the
last day, or at the day that we shall be brought to stand
before him to be
judged, that we have not stained our swords in the blood of
our brethren since
he imparted his word unto us and has made us clean thereby.

ALM 24:16 And now,
my brethren, if our brethren seek to destroy us, behold, we
will hide away our
swords, yea, even we will bury them deep in the earth, that
they may be kept
bright, as a testimony that we have never used them, at the
last day; and if
our brethren destroy us, behold, we shall go to our God and
shall be saved.


ALM 24:17 And now it came to pass that when the king had made an end of these

sayings, and all the people were assembled together, they took their swords,

and all the weapons which were used for the shedding of man's blood, and they

did bury them up deep in the earth.

ALM 24:18 And this they did, it being in
their view a testimony to God, and
also to men, that they never would use
weapons again for the shedding of man's
blood; and this they did, vouching and
covenanting with God, that rather than
shed the blood of their brethren they
would give up their own lives; and rather
than take away from a brother they
would give unto him; and rather than spend
their days in idleness they would
labor abundantly with their hands.

ALM 24:19 And thus we see that, when these
Lamanites were brought to believe
and to know the truth, they were firm, and
would suffer even unto death rather
than commit sin; and thus we see that they
buried their weapons of peace, or
they buried the weapons of war, for peace.


ALM 24:20 And it came to pass that their brethren, the Lamanites, made

preparations for war, and came up to the land of Nephi for the purpose of

destroying the king, and to place another in his stead, and also of destroying

the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi out of the land.

ALM 24:21 Now when the people
saw that they were coming against them they went
out to meet them, and
prostrated themselves before them to the earth, and began
to call on the name
of the Lord; and thus they were in this attitude when the
Lamanites began to
fall upon them, and began to slay them with the sword.

ALM 24:22 And thus
without meeting any resistance, they did slay a thousand and
five of them; and
we know that they are blessed, for they have gone to dwell
with their God.

ALM
24:23 Now when the Lamanites saw that their brethren would not flee from
the
sword, neither would they turn aside to the right hand or to the left, but
that
they would lie down and perish, and praised God even in the very act of

perishing under the sword--

ALM 24:24 Now when the Lamanites saw this they did
forbear from slaying them;
and there were many whose hearts had swollen in them
for those of their
brethren who had fallen under the sword, for they repented
of the things which
they had done.

ALM 24:25 And it came to pass that they
threw down their weapons of war, and
they would not take them again, for they
were stung for the murders which they
had committed; and they came down even as
their brethren, relying upon the
mercies of those whose arms were lifted to
slay them.

ALM 24:26 And it came to pass that the people of God were joined
that day by
more than the number who had been slain; and those who had been
slain were
righteous people, therefore we have no reason to doubt but what they
were
saved.

ALM 24:27 And there was not a wicked man slain among them; but
there were more
than a thousand brought to the knowledge of the truth; thus we
see that the
Lord worketh in many ways to the salvation of his people.

ALM
24:28 Now the greatest number of those of the Lamanites who slew so many of

their brethren were Amalekites and Amulonites, the greatest number of whom
were
after the order of the Nehors.

ALM 24:29 Now, among those who joined the
people of the Lord, there were none
who were Amalekites or Amulonites, or who
were of the order of Nehor, but they
were actual descendants of Laman and
Lemuel.

ALM 24:30 And thus we can plainly discern, that after a people have
been once
enlightened by the Spirit of God, and have had great knowledge of
things
pertaining to righteousness, and then have fallen away into sin and

transgression, they become more hardened, and thus their state becomes worse

than though they had never known these things.

ALM 25:0 Lamanite aggressions--
Vengeance by Amulonites--Martyrdoms--Further
fulfillment of Abinadi's
prophecy.

ALM 25:1 And behold, now it came to pass that those Lamanites were
more angry
because they had slain their brethren; therefore they swore
vengeance upon the
Nephites; and they did no more attempt to slay the people of
Anti-Nephi-Lehi at
that time.

ALM 25:2 But they took their armies and went
over into the borders of the land
of Zarahemla, and fell upon the people who
were in the land of Ammonihah and
destroyed them.

ALM 25:3 And after that,
they had many battles with the Nephites, in the which
they were driven and
slain.

ALM 25:4 And among the Lamanites who were slain were almost all the
seed of
Amulon and his brethren, who were the priests of Noah, and they were
slain by
the hands of the Nephites;

ALM 25:5 And the remainder, having fled
into the east wilderness, and having
usurped the power and authority over the
Lamanites, caused that many of the
Lamanites should perish by fire because of
their belief--

ALM 25:6 For many of them, after having suffered much loss and
so many
afflictions, began to be stirred up in remembrance of the words which
Aaron and
his brethren had preached to them in their land; therefore they began
to
disbelieve the traditions of their fathers, and to believe in the Lord, and

that he gave great power unto the Nephites; and thus there were many of them

converted in the wilderness.

ALM 25:7 And it came to pass that those rulers
who were the remnant of the
children of Amulon caused that they should be put
to death, yea, all those that
believed in these things.

ALM 25:8 Now this
martyrdom caused that many of their brethren should be
stirred up to anger; and
there began to be contention in the wilderness; and
the Lamanites began to hunt
the seed of Amulon and his brethren and began to
slay them; and they fled into
the east wilderness.

ALM 25:9 And behold they are hunted at this day by the
Lamanites. Thus the
words of Abinadi were brought to pass, which he said
concerning the seed of the
priests who caused that he should suffer death by
fire.

ALM 25:10 For he said unto them: What ye shall do unto me shall be a
type of
things to come.

ALM 25:11 And now Abinadi was the first that suffered
death by fire because of
his belief in God; now this is what he meant, that
many should suffer death by
fire, according as he had suffered.

ALM 25:12 And
he said unto the priests of Noah that their seed should cause
many to be put to
death, in the like manner as he was, and that they should be
scattered abroad
and slain, even as a sheep having no shepherd is driven and
slain by wild
beasts; and now behold, these words were verified, for they were
driven by the
Lamanites, and they were hunted, and they were smitten.

ALM 25:13 And it came
to pass that when the Lamanites saw that they could not
overpower the Nephites
they returned again to their own land; and many of them
came over to dwell in
the land of Ishmael and the land of Nephi, and did join
themselves to the
people of God, who were the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi.

ALM 25:14 And they did
also bury their weapons of war, according as their
brethren had, and they began
to be a righteous people; and they did walk in the
ways of the Lord, and did
observe to keep his commandments and his statutes.

ALM 25:15 Yea, and they did
keep the law of Moses; for it was expedient that
they should keep the law of
Moses as yet, for it was not all fulfilled. But
notwithstanding the law of
Moses, they did look forward to the coming of
Christ, considering that the law
of Moses was a type of his coming, and
believing that they must keep those
outward performances until the time that he
should be revealed unto them.

ALM
25:16 Now they did not suppose that salvation came by the law of Moses; but
the
law of Moses did serve to strengthen their faith in Christ; and thus they
did
retain a hope through faith, unto eternal salvation, relying upon the
spirit of
prophecy, which spake of those things to come.

ALM 25:17 And now behold,
Ammon, and Aaron, and Omner, and Himni, and their
brethren did rejoice
exceedingly, for the success which they had had among the
Lamanites, seeing
that the Lord had granted unto them according to their
prayers, and that he had
also verified his word unto them in every particular.

ALM 26:0 Ammon glories
in the Lord--Boasting in righteousness--he recounts
blessings to him and his
brethren.

ALM 26:1 And now, these are the words of Ammon to his brethren,
which say thus:
My brothers and my brethren, behold I say unto you, how great
reason have we to
rejoice; for could we have supposed when we started from the
land of Zarahemla
that God would have granted unto us such great blessings?


ALM 26:2 And now, I ask, what great blessings has he bestowed upon us? Can ye

tell?

ALM 26:3 Behold, I answer for you; for our brethren, the Lamanites, were
in
darkness, yea, even in the darkest abyss, but behold, how many of them are

brought to behold the marvelous light of God! And this is the blessing which

hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of

God to bring about this great work.

ALM 26:4 Behold, thousands of them do
rejoice, and have been brought into the
fold of God.

ALM 26:5 Behold, the
field was ripe, and blessed are ye, for ye did thrust in
the sickle, and did
reap with your might, yea, all the day long did ye labor;
and behold the number
of your sheaves! And they shall be gathered into the
garners, that they are not
wasted.

ALM 26:6 Yea, they shall not be beaten down by the storm at the last
day; yea,
neither shall they be harrowed up by the whirlwinds; but when the
storm cometh
they shall be gathered together in their place, that the storm
cannot penetrate
to them; yea, neither shall they be driven with fierce winds
whithersoever the
enemy listeth to carry them.

ALM 26:7 But behold, they are
in the hands of the Lord of the harvest, and they
are his; and he will raise
them up at the last day.

ALM 26:8 Blessed be the name of our God; let us sing
to his praise, yea, let us
give thanks to his holy name, for he doth work
righteousness forever.

ALM 26:9 For if we had not come up out of the land of
Zarahemla, these our
dearly beloved brethren, who have so dearly beloved us,
would still have been
racked with hatred against us, yea, and they would also
have been strangers to
God.

ALM 26:10 And it came to pass that when Ammon had
said these words, his brother
Aaron rebuked him, saying: Ammon, I fear that thy
joy doth carry thee away unto
boasting.

ALM 26:11 But Ammon said unto him: I
do not boast in my own strength, nor in my
own wisdom; but behold, my joy is
full, yea, my heart is brim with joy, and I
will rejoice in my God.

ALM 26:12
Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore
I will
not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I
can do
all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this
land, for
which we will praise his name forever.

ALM 26:13 Behold, how many thousands of
our brethren has he loosed from the
pains of hell; and they are brought to sing
redeeming love, and this because of
the power of his word which is in us,
therefore have we not great reason to
rejoice?

ALM 26:14 Yea, we have reason
to praise him forever, for he is the Most High
God, and has loosed our brethren
from the chains of hell.

ALM 26:15 Yea, they were encircled about with
everlasting darkness and
destruction; but behold, he has brought them into his
everlasting light, yea,
into everlasting salvation; and they are encircled
about with the matchless
bounty of his love; yea, and we have been instruments
in his hands of doing
this great and marvelous work.

ALM 26:16 Therefore, let
us glory, yea, we will glory in the Lord; yea, we will
rejoice, for our joy is
full; yea, we will praise our God forever. Behold, who
can glory too much in
the Lord? Yea, who can say too much of his great power,
and of his mercy, and
of his long-suffering towards the children of men?
Behold, I say unto you, I
cannot say the smallest part which I feel.

ALM 26:17 Who could have supposed
that our God would have been so merciful as
to have snatched us from our awful,
sinful, and polluted state?

ALM 26:18 Behold, we went forth even in wrath,
with mighty threatenings to
destroy his church.

ALM 26:19 Oh then, why did he
not consign us to an awful destruction, yea, why
did he not let the sword of
his justice fall upon us, and doom us to eternal
despair?

ALM 26:20 Oh, my
soul, almost as it were, fleeth at the thought. Behold, he did
not exercise his
justice upon us, but in his great mercy hath brought us over
that everlasting
gulf of death and misery, even to the salvation of our souls.

ALM 26:21 And
now behold, my brethren, what natural man is there that knoweth
these things? I
say unto you, there is none that knoweth these things, save it
be the
penitent.

ALM 26:22 Yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and bringeth
forth good
works, and prayeth continually without ceasing--unto such it is
given to know
the mysteries of God; yea, unto such it shall be given to reveal
things which
never have been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto such to
bring
thousands of souls to repentance, even as it has been given unto us to
bring
these our brethren to repentance.

ALM 26:23 Now do ye remember, my
brethren, that we said unto our brethren in
the land of Zarahemla, we go up to
the land of Nephi, to preach unto our
brethren, the Lamanites, and they laughed
us to scorn?

ALM 26:24 For they said unto us: Do ye suppose that ye can bring
the Lamanites
to the knowledge of the truth? Do ye suppose that ye can convince
the Lamanites
of the incorrectness of the traditions of their fathers, as
stiffnecked a
people as they are; whose hearts delight in the shedding of
blood; whose days
have been spent in the grossest iniquity; whose ways have
been the ways of a
transgressor from the beginning? Now my brethren, ye
remember that this was
their language.

ALM 26:25 And moreover they did say:
Let us take up arms against them, that we
destroy them and their iniquity out
of the land, lest they overrun us and
destroy us.

ALM 26:26 But behold, my
beloved brethren, we came into the wilderness not with
the intent to destroy
our brethren, but with the intent that perhaps we might
save some few of their
souls.

ALM 26:27 Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn
back,
behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy brethren, the

Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you

success.

ALM 26:28 And now behold, we have come, and been forth amongst them;
and we
have been patient in our sufferings, and we have suffered every
privation; yea,
we have traveled from house to house, relying upon the mercies
of the
world--not upon the mercies of the world alone but upon the mercies of
God.

ALM 26:29 And we have entered into their houses and taught them, and we
have
taught them in their streets; yea, and we have taught them upon their
hills;
and we have also entered into their temples and their synagogues and
taught
them; and we have been cast out, and mocked, and spit upon, and smote
upon our
cheeks; and we have been stoned, and taken and bound with strong
cords, and
cast into prison; and through the power and wisdom of God we have
been
delivered again.

ALM 26:30 And we have suffered all manner of
afflictions, and all this, that
perhaps we might be the means of saving some
soul; and we supposed that our joy
would be full if perhaps we could be the
means of saving some.

ALM 26:31 Now behold, we can look forth and see the
fruits of our labors; and
are they few? I say unto you, Nay, they are many;
yea, and we can witness of
their sincerity, because of their love towards their
brethren and also towards
us.

ALM 26:32 For behold, they had rather sacrifice
their lives than even to take
the life of their enemy; and they have buried
their weapons of war deep in the
earth, because of their love towards their
brethren.

ALM 26:33 And now behold I say unto you, has there been so great
love in all
the land? Behold, I say unto you, Nay, there has not, even among
the Nephites.

ALM 26:34 For behold, they would take up arms against their
brethren; they
would not suffer themselves to be slain. But behold how many of
these have laid
down their lives; and we know that they have gone to their God,
because of
their love and of their hatred to sin.

ALM 26:35 Now have we not
reason to rejoice? Yea, I say unto you, there never
were men that had so great
reason to rejoice as we, since the world began; yea,
and my joy is carried
away, even unto boasting in my God; for he has all power,
all wisdom, and all
understanding; he comprehendeth all things, and he is a
merciful Being, even
unto salvation, to those who will repent and believe on
his name.

ALM 26:36
Now if this is boasting, even so will I boast; for this is my life
and my
light, my joy and my salvation, and my redemption from everlasting wo.
Yea,
blessed is the name of my God, who has been mindful of this people, who
are a
branch of the tree of Israel, and has been lost from its body in a
strange
land; yea, I say, blessed be the name of my God, who has been mindful
of us,
wanderers in a strange land.

ALM 26:37 Now my brethren, we see that God is
mindful of every people,
whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his
people, and his bowels of
mercy are over all the earth. Now this is my joy, and
my great thanksgiving;
yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever. Amen.


ALM 27:0 People of Anti-Nephi-Lehi seek safety in Zarahemla--they are called

the people of Ammon--Land of Jershon given to them.

ALM 27:1 Now it came to
pass that when those Lamanites who had gone to war
against the Nephites had
found, after their many struggles to destroy them,
that it was in vain to seek
their destruction, they returned again to the land
of Nephi.

ALM 27:2 And it
came to pass that the Amalekites, because of their loss, were
exceedingly
angry. And when they saw that they could not seek revenge from the
Nephites,
they began to stir up the people in anger against their brethren, the
people of
Anti-Nephi-Lehi; therefore they began again to destroy them.

ALM 27:3 Now this
people again refused to take their arms, and they suffered
themselves to be
slain according to the desires of their enemies.

ALM 27:4 Now when Ammon and
his brethren saw this work of destruction among
those whom they so dearly
beloved, and among those who had so dearly beloved
them--for they were treated
as though they were angels sent from God to save
them from everlasting
destruction--therefore, when Ammon and his brethren saw
this great work of
destruction, they were moved with compassion, and they said
unto the king:

ALM
27:5 Let us gather together this people of the Lord, and let us go down to
the
land of Zarahemla to our brethren the Nephites, and flee out of the hands
of
our enemies, that we be not destroyed.

ALM 27:6 But the king said unto them:
Behold, the Nephites will destroy us,
because of the many murders and sins we
have committed against them.

ALM 27:7 And Ammon said: I will go and inquire of
the Lord, and if he say unto
us, go down unto our brethren, will ye go?

ALM
27:8 And the king said unto him: Yea, if the Lord saith unto us go, we will
go
down unto our brethren, and we will be their slaves until we repair unto
them
the many murders and sins which we have committed against them.

ALM 27:9 But
Ammon said unto him: It is against the law of our brethren, which
was
established by my father, that there should be any slaves among them;
therefore
let us go down and rely upon the mercies of our brethren.

ALM 27:10 But the
king said unto him: Inquire of the Lord, and if he saith unto
us go, we will
go; otherwise we will perish in the land.

ALM 27:11 And it came to pass that
Ammon went and inquired of the Lord, and the
Lord said unto him:

ALM 27:12 Get
this people out of this land, that they perish not; for Satan has
great hold on
the hearts of the Amalekites, who do stir up the Lamanites to
anger against
their brethren to slay them; therefore get thee out of this land;
and blessed
are this people in this generation, for I will preserve them.

ALM 27:13 And
now it came to pass that Ammon went and told the king all the
words which the
Lord had said unto him.

ALM 27:14 And they gathered together all their people,
yea, all the people of
the Lord, and did gather together all their flocks and
herds, and departed out
of the land, and came into the wilderness which divided
the land of Nephi from
the land of Zarahemla, and came over near the borders of
the land.

ALM 27:15 And it came to pass that Ammon said unto them: Behold, I
and my
brethren will go forth into the land of Zarahemla, and ye shall remain
here
until we return; and we will try the hearts of our brethren, whether they
will
that ye shall come into their land.

ALM 27:16 And it came to pass that as
Ammon was going forth into the land, that
he and his brethren met Alma, over in
the place of which has been spoken; and
behold, this was a joyful meeting.

ALM
27:17 Now the joy of Ammon was so great even that he was full; yea, he was

swallowed up in the joy of his God, even to the exhausting of his strength;
and
he fell again to the earth.

ALM 27:18 Now was not this exceeding joy?
Behold, this is joy which none
receiveth save it be the truly penitent and
humble seeker of happiness.

ALM 27:19 Now the joy of Alma in meeting his
brethren was truly great, and also
the joy of Aaron, of Omner, and Himni; but
behold their joy was not that to
exceed their strength.

ALM 27:20 And now it
came to pass that Alma conducted his brethren back to the
land of Zarahemla;
even to his own house. And they went and told the chief
judge all the things
that had happened unto them in the land of Nephi, among
their brethren, the
Lamanites.

ALM 27:21 And it came to pass that the chief judge sent a
proclamation
throughout all the land, desiring the voice of the people
concerning the
admitting their brethren, who were the people of Anti-Nephi-
Lehi.

ALM 27:22 And it came to pass that the voice of the people came,
saying:
Behold, we will give up the land of Jershon, which is on the east by
the sea,
which joins the land Bountiful, which is on the south of the land
Bountiful;
and this land Jershon is the land which we will give unto our
brethren for an
inheritance.

ALM 27:23 And behold, we will set our armies
between the land Jershon and the
land Nephi, that we may protect our brethren
in the land Jershon; and this we
do for our brethren, on account of their fear
to take up arms against their
brethren lest they should commit sin; and this
their great fear came because of
their sore repentance which they had, on
account of their many murders and
their awful wickedness.

ALM 27:24 And now
behold, this will we do unto our brethren, that they may
inherit the land
Jershon; and we will guard them from their enemies with our
armies, on
condition that they will give us a portion of their substance to
assist us that
we may maintain our armies.

ALM 27:25 Now, it came to pass that when Ammon had
heard this, he returned to
the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, and also Alma with
him, into the wilderness,
where they had pitched their tents, and made known
unto them all these things.
And Alma also related unto them his conversion,
with Ammon and Aaron, and his
brethren.

ALM 27:26 And it came to pass that it
did cause great joy among them. And they
went down into the land of Jershon,
and took possession of the land of Jershon;
and they were called by the
Nephites the people of Ammon; therefore they were
distinguished by that name
ever after.

ALM 27:27 And they were among the people of Nephi, and also
numbered among the
people who were of the church of God. And they were also
distinguished for
their zeal towards God, and also towards men; for they were
perfectly honest
and upright in all things; and they were firm in the faith of
Christ, even unto
the end.

ALM 27:28 And they did look upon shedding the blood
of their brethren with the
greatest abhorrence; and they never could be
prevailed upon to take up arms
against their brethren; and they never did look
upon death with any degree of
terror, for their hope and views of Christ and
the resurrection; therefore,
death was swallowed up to them by the victory of
Christ over it.

ALM 27:29 Therefore, they would suffer death in the most
aggravating and
distressing manner which could be inflicted by their brethren,
before they
would take the sword or cimeter to smite them.

ALM 27:30 And thus
they were a zealous and beloved people, a highly favored
people of the Lord.


ALM 28:0 Lamanites make war upon Nephites--A tremendous battle--Lamanites

defeated--Deep mourning.

ALM 28:1 And now it came to pass that after the
people of Ammon were
established in the land of Jershon, and a church also
established in the land
of Jershon, and the armies of the Nephites were set
round about the land of
Jershon, yea, in all the borders round about the land
of Zarahemla; behold the
armies of the Lamanites had followed their brethren
into the wilderness.

ALM 28:2 And thus there was a tremendous battle; yea,
even such an one as never
had been known among all the people in the land from
the time Lehi left
Jerusalem; yea, and tens of thousands of the Lamanites were
slain and scattered
abroad.

ALM 28:3 Yea, and also there was a tremendous
slaughter among the people of
Nephi; nevertheless, the Lamanites were driven
and scattered, and the people of
Nephi returned again to their land.

ALM 28:4
And now this was a time that there was a great mourning and
lamentation heard
throughout all the land, among all the people of Nephi--

ALM 28:5 Yea, the cry
of widows mourning for their husbands, and also of
fathers mourning for their
sons, and the daughter for the brother, yea, the
brother for the father; and
thus the cry of mourning was heard among all of
them, mourning for their
kindred who had been slain.

ALM 28:6 And now surely this was a sorrowful day;
yea, a time of solemnity, and
a time of much fasting and prayer.

ALM 28:7 And
thus endeth the fifteenth year of the reign of the judges over the
people of
Nephi;

ALM 28:8 And this is the account of Ammon and his brethren, their
journeyings
in the land of Nephi, their sufferings in the land, their sorrows,
and their
afflictions, and their incomprehensible joy, and the reception and
safety of
the brethren in the land of Jershon. And now may the Lord, the
Redeemer of all
men, bless their souls forever.

ALM 28:9 And this is the
account of the wars and contentions among the
Nephites, and also the wars
between the Nephites and the Lamanites; and the
fifteenth year of the reign of
the judges is ended.

ALM 28:10 And from the first year to the fifteenth has
brought to pass the
destruction of many thousand lives; yea, it has brought to
pass an awful scene
of bloodshed.

ALM 28:11 And the bodies of many thousands
are laid low in the earth, while the
bodies of many thousands are moldering in
heaps upon the face of the earth;
yea, and many thousands are mourning for the
loss of their kindred, because
they have reason to fear, according to the
promises of the Lord, that they are
consigned to a state of endless wo.

ALM
28:12 While many thousands of others truly mourn for the loss of their
kindred,
yet they rejoice and exult in the hope, and even know, according to
the
promises of the Lord, that they are raised to dwell at the right hand of
God,
in a state of never-ending happiness.

ALM 28:13 And thus we see how great the
inequality of man is because of sin and
transgression, and the power of the
devil, which comes by the cunning plans
which he hath devised to ensnare the
hearts of men.

ALM 28:14 And thus we see the great call of diligence of men to
labor in the
vineyards of the Lord; and thus we see the great reason of sorrow,
and also of
rejoicing--sorrow because of death and destruction among men, and
joy because
of the light of Christ unto life.

ALM 29:0 Alma's yearning desire
to cry repentance to all--God's word
apportioned in wisdom--Alma rejoices over
success of his brethren.

ALM 29:1 O that I were an angel, and could have the
wish of mine heart, that I
might go forth and speak with the trump of God, with
a voice to shake the
earth, and cry repentance unto every people!

ALM 29:2
Yea, I would declare unto every soul, as with the voice of thunder,
repentance
and the plan of redemption, that they should repent and come unto
our God, that
there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth.

ALM 29:3 But
behold, I am a man, and do sin in my wish; for I ought to be
content with the
things which the Lord hath allotted unto me.

ALM 29:4 I ought not to harrow up
in my desires, the firm decree of a just God,
for I know that he granteth unto
men according to their desire, whether it be
unto death or unto life; yea, I
know that he allotteth unto men, yea, decreeth
unto them decrees which are
unalterable, according to their wills, whether they
be unto salvation or unto
destruction.

ALM 29:5 Yea, and I know that good and evil have come before all
men; he that
knoweth not good from evil is blameless; but he that knoweth good
and evil, to
him it is given according to his desires, whether he desireth good
or evil,
life or death, joy or remorse of conscience.

ALM 29:6 Now, seeing
that I know these things, why should I desire more than to
perform the work to
which I have been called?

ALM 29:7 Why should I desire that I were an angel,
that I could speak unto all
the ends of the earth?

ALM 29:8 For behold, the
Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their own nation
and tongue, to teach his
word, yea, in wisdom, all that he seeth fit that they
should have; therefore we
see that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom, according
to that which is just and
true.

ALM 29:9 I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in
it. I do
not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded
me; yea,
and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands
of God
to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.

ALM 29:10 And
behold, when I see many of my brethren truly penitent, and coming
to the Lord
their God, then is my soul filled with joy; then do I remember what
the Lord
has done for me, yea, even that he hath heard my prayer; yea, then do
I
remember his merciful arm which he extended towards me.

ALM 29:11 Yea, and I
also remember the captivity of my fathers; for I surely do
know that the Lord
did deliver them out of bondage, and by this did establish
his church; yea, the
Lord God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob, did
deliver them out of bondage.

ALM 29:12 Yea, I have always remembered the
captivity of my fathers; and that
same God who delivered them out of the hands
of the Egyptians did deliver them
out of bondage.

ALM 29:13 Yea, and that same
God did establish his church among them; yea, and
that same God hath called me
by a holy calling, to preach the word unto this
people, and hath given me much
success, in the which my joy is full.

ALM 29:14 But I do not joy in my own
success alone, but my joy is more full
because of the success of my brethren,
who have been up to the land of Nephi.

ALM 29:15 Behold, they have labored
exceedingly, and have brought forth much
fruit; and how great shall be their
reward!

ALM 29:16 Now, when I think of the success of these my brethren my
soul is
carried away, even to the separation of it from the body, as it were,
so great
is my joy.

ALM 29:17 And now may God grant unto these, my brethren,
that they may sit down
in the kingdom of God; yea, and also all those who are
the fruit of their
labors that they may go no more out, but that they may
praise him forever. And
may God grant that it may be done according to my
words, even as I have spoken.
Amen.

ALM 30:0 Korihor the Anti-Christ--Expelled
from Jershon and arrested at
Gideon--Arraigned in Zarahemla--he demands a sign
and is stricken dumb--His
miserable death.

ALM 30:1 Behold, now it came to
pass that after the people of Ammon were
established in the land of Jershon,
yea, and also after the Lamanites were
driven out of the land, and their dead
were buried by the people of the land--

ALM 30:2 Now their dead were not
numbered because of the greatness of their
numbers; neither were the dead of
the Nephites numbered--but it came to pass
after they had buried their dead,
and also after the days of fasting, and
mourning, and prayer, (and it was in
the sixteenth year of the reign of the
judges over the people of Nephi) there
began to be continual peace throughout
all the land.

ALM 30:3 Yea, and the
people did observe to keep the commandments of the Lord;
and they were strict
in observing the ordinances of God, according to the law
of Moses; for they
were taught to keep the law of Moses until it should be
fulfilled.

ALM 30:4
And thus the people did have no disturbance in all the sixteenth year
of the
reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.

ALM 30:5 And it came to pass
that in the commencement of the seventeenth year
of the reign of the judges,
there was continual peace.

ALM 30:6 But it came to pass in the latter end of
the seventeenth year, there
came a man into the land of Zarahemla, and he was
Anti-Christ, for he began to
preach unto the people against the prophecies
which had been spoken by the
prophets, concerning the coming of Christ.

ALM
30:7 Now there was no law against a man's belief; for it was strictly
contrary
to the commands of God that there should be a law which should bring
men on to
unequal grounds.

ALM 30:8 For thus saith the scripture: Choose ye this day,
whom ye will serve.

ALM 30:9 Now if a man desired to serve God, it was his
privilege; or rather, if
he believed in God it was his privilege to serve him;
but if he did not believe
in him there was no law to punish him.

ALM 30:10 But
if he murdered he was punished unto death; and if he robbed he
was also
punished; and if he stole he was also punished; and if he committed
adultery he
was also punished; yea, for all this wickedness they were punished.

ALM 30:11
For there was a law that men should be judged according to their
crimes.
Nevertheless, there was no law against a man's belief; therefore, a man
was
punished only for the crimes which he had done; therefore all men were on
equal
grounds.

ALM 30:12 And this Anti-Christ, whose name was Korihor, (and the law
could have
no hold upon him) began to preach unto the people that there should
be no
Christ. And after this manner did he preach, saying:

ALM 30:13 O ye that
are bound down under a foolish and a vain hope, why do ye
yoke yourselves with
such foolish things? Why do ye look for a Christ? For no
man can know of
anything which is to come.

ALM 30:14 Behold, these things which ye call
prophecies, which ye say are
handed down by holy prophets, behold, they are
foolish traditions of your
fathers.

ALM 30:15 How do ye know of their surety?
Behold, ye cannot know of things
which ye do not see; therefore ye cannot know
that there shall be a Christ.

ALM 30:16 Ye look forward and say that ye see a
remission of your sins. But
behold, it is the effect of a frenzied mind; and
this derangement of your minds
comes because of the traditions of your fathers,
which lead you away into a
belief of things which are not so.

ALM 30:17 And
many more such things did he say unto them, telling them that
there could be no
atonement made for the sins of men, but every man fared in
this life according
to the management of the creature; therefore every man
prospered according to
his genius, and that every man conquered according to
his strength; and
whatsoever a man did was no crime.

ALM 30:18 And thus he did preach unto them,
leading away the hearts of many,
causing them to lift up their heads in their
wickedness, yea, leading away many
women, and also men, to commit whoredoms--
telling them that when a man was
dead, that was the end thereof.

ALM 30:19 Now
this man went over to the land of Jershon also, to preach these
things among
the people of Ammon, who were once the people of the Lamanites.

ALM 30:20 But
behold they were more wise than many of the Nephites; for they
took him, and
bound him, and carried him before Ammon, who was a high priest
over that
people.

ALM 30:21 And it came to pass that he caused that he should be carried
out of
the land. And he came over into the land of Gideon, and began to preach
unto
them also; and here he did not have much success, for he was taken and
bound
and carried before the high priest, and also the chief judge over the
land.

ALM 30:22 And it came to pass that the high priest said unto him: Why do
ye go
about perverting the ways of the Lord? Why do ye teach this people that
there
shall be no Christ, to interrupt their rejoicings? Why do ye speak
against all
the prophecies of the holy prophets?

ALM 30:23 Now the high
priest's name was Giddonah. And Korihor said unto him:
Because I do not teach
the foolish traditions of your fathers, and because I do
not teach this people
to bind themselves down under the foolish ordinances and
performances which are
laid down by ancient priests, to usurp power and
authority over them, to keep
them in ignorance, that they may not lift up their
heads, but be brought down
according to thy words.

ALM 30:24 Ye say that this people is a free people.
Behold, I say they are in
bondage. Ye say that those ancient prophecies are
true. Behold, I say that ye
do not know that they are true.

ALM 30:25 Ye say
that this people is a guilty and a fallen people, because of
the transgression
of a parent. Behold, I say that a child is not guilty because
of its parents.


ALM 30:26 And ye also say that Christ shall come. But behold, I say that ye do

not know that there shall be a Christ. And ye say also that he shall be slain

for the sins of the world--

ALM 30:27 And thus ye lead away this people after
the foolish traditions of
your fathers, and according to your own desires; and
ye keep them down, even as
it were in bondage, that ye may glut yourselves with
the labors of their hands,
that they durst not look up with boldness, and that
they durst not enjoy their
rights and privileges.

ALM 30:28 Yea, they durst
not make use of that which is their own lest they
should offend their priests,
who do yoke them according to their desires, and
have brought them to believe,
by their traditions and their dreams and their
whims and their visions and
their pretended mysteries, that they should, if
they did not do according to
their words, offend some unknown being, who they
say is God--a being who never
has been seen or known, who never was nor ever
will be.

ALM 30:29 Now when the
high priest and the chief judge saw the hardness of his
heart, yea, when they
saw that he would revile even against God, they would not
make any reply to his
words; but they caused that he should be bound; and they
delivered him up into
the hands of the officers, and sent him to the land of
Zarahemla, that he might
be brought before Alma, and the chief judge who was
governor over all the
land.

ALM 30:30 And it came to pass that when he was brought before Alma and
the
chief judge, he did go on in the same manner as he did in the land of
Gideon;
yea, he went on to blaspheme.

ALM 30:31 And he did rise up in great
swelling words before Alma, and did
revile against the priests and teachers,
accusing them of leading away the
people after the silly traditions of their
fathers, for the sake of glutting on
the labors of the people.

ALM 30:32 Now
Alma said unto him: Thou knowest that we do not glut ourselves
upon the labors
of this people; for behold I have labored even from the
commencement of the
reign of the judges until now, with mine own hands for my
support,
notwithstanding my many travels round about the land to declare the
word of God
unto my people.

ALM 30:33 And notwithstanding the many labors which I have
performed in the
church, I have never received so much as even one senine for
my labor; neither
has any of my brethren, save it were in the judgment-seat;
and then we have
received only according to law for our time.

ALM 30:34 And
now, if we do not receive anything for our labors in the church,
what doth it
profit us to labor in the church save it were to declare the
truth, that we may
have rejoicings in the joy of our brethren?

ALM 30:35 Then why sayest thou
that we preach unto this people to get gain,
when thou, of thyself, knowest
that we receive no gain? And now, believest thou
that we deceive this people,
that causes such joy in their hearts?

ALM 30:36 And Korihor answered him,
Yea.

ALM 30:37 And then Alma said unto him: Believest thou that there is a
God?

ALM 30:38 And he answered, Nay.

ALM 30:39 Now Alma said unto him: Will
ye deny again that there is a God, and
also deny the Christ? For behold, I say
unto you, I know there is a God, and
also that Christ shall come.

ALM 30:40
And now what evidence have ye that there is no God, or that Christ
cometh not?
I say unto you that ye have none, save it be your word only.

ALM 30:41 But,
behold, I have all things as a testimony that these things are
true; and ye
also have all things as a testimony unto you that they are true;
and will ye
deny them? Believest thou that these things are true?

ALM 30:42 Behold, I know
that thou believest, but thou art possessed with a
lying spirit, and ye have
put off the Spirit of God that it may have no place
in you; but the devil has
power over you, and he doth carry you about, working
devices that he may
destroy the children of God.

ALM 30:43 And now Korihor said unto Alma: If thou
wilt show me a sign, that I
may be convinced that there is a God, yea, show
unto me that he hath power, and
then will I be convinced of the truth of thy
words.

ALM 30:44 But Alma said unto him: Thou hast had signs enough; will ye
tempt
your God? Will ye say, Show unto me a sign, when ye have the testimony of
all
these thy brethren, and also all the holy prophets? The scriptures are
laid
before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the
earth,
and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea,
and also
all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there
is a
Supreme Creator.

ALM 30:45 And yet do ye go about, leading away the
hearts of this people,
testifying unto them there is no God? And yet will ye
deny against all these
witnesses? And he said: Yea, I will deny, except ye
shall show me a sign.

ALM 30:46 And now it came to pass that Alma said unto
him: Behold, I am grieved
because of the hardness of your heart, yea, that ye
will still resist the
spirit of the truth, that thy soul may be destroyed.

ALM
30:47 But behold, it is better that thy soul should be lost than that thou

shouldst be the means of bringing many souls down to destruction, by thy lying

and by thy flattering words; therefore if thou shalt deny again, behold God

shall smite thee, that thou shalt become dumb, that thou shalt never open thy

mouth any more, that thou shalt not deceive this people any more.

ALM 30:48
Now Korihor said unto him: I do not deny the existence of a God, but
I do not
believe that there is a God; and I say also, that ye do not know that
there is
a God; and except ye show me a sign, I will not believe.

ALM 30:49 Now Alma
said unto him: This will I give unto thee for a sign, that
thou shalt be struck
dumb, according to my words; and I say, that in the name
of God, ye shall be
struck dumb, that ye shall no more have utterance.

ALM 30:50 Now when Alma had
said these words, Korihor was struck dumb, that he
could not have utterance,
according to the words of Alma.

ALM 30:51 And now when the chief judge saw
this, he put forth his hand and
wrote unto Korihor, saying: Art thou convinced
of the power of God? In whom did
ye desire that Alma should show forth his
sign? Would ye that he should afflict
others, to show unto thee a sign? Behold,
he has showed unto you a sign; and
now will ye dispute more?

ALM 30:52 And
Korihor put forth his hand and wrote, saying: I know that I am
dumb, for I
cannot speak; and I know that nothing save it were the power of God
could bring
this upon me; yea, and I always knew that there was a God.

ALM 30:53 But
behold, the devil hath deceived me; for he appeared unto me in
the form of an
angel, and said unto me: Go and reclaim this people, for they
have all gone
astray after an unknown God. And he said unto me: There is no
God; yea, and he
taught me that which I should say. And I have taught his
words; and I taught
them because they were pleasing unto the carnal mind; and I
taught them, even
until I had much success, insomuch that I verily believed
that they were true;
and for this cause I withstood the truth, even until I
have brought this great
curse upon me.

ALM 30:54 Now when he had said this, he besought that Alma
should pray unto
God, that the curse might be taken from him.

ALM 30:55 But
Alma said unto him: If this curse should be taken from thee thou
wouldst again
lead away the hearts of this people; therefore, it shall be unto
thee even as
the Lord will.

ALM 30:56 And it came to pass that the curse was not taken off
of Korihor; but
he was cast out, and went about from house to house begging for
his food.

ALM 30:57 Now the knowledge of what had happened unto Korihor was
immediately
published throughout all the land; yea, the proclamation was sent
forth by the
chief judge to all the people in the land, declaring unto those
who had
believed in the words of Korihor that they must speedily repent, lest
the same
judgments would come unto them.

ALM 30:58 And it came to pass that
they were all convinced of the wickedness of
Korihor; therefore they were all
converted again unto the Lord; and this put an
end to the iniquity after the
manner of Korihor. And Korihor did go about from
house to house, begging food
for his support.

ALM 30:59 And it came to pass that as he went forth among the
people, yea,
among a people who had separated themselves from the Nephites and
called
themselves Zoramites, being led by a man whose name was Zoram--and as he
went
forth amongst them, behold, he was run upon and trodden down, even until
he was
dead.

ALM 30:60 And thus we see the end of him who perverteth the ways
of the Lord;
and thus we see that the devil will not support his children at
the last day,
but doth speedily drag them down to hell.

ALM 31:0 Alma heads a
mission to reclaim the apostate Zoramites--The Rameumptom
or holy stand--The
Zoramite form of worship.

ALM 31:1 Now it came to pass that after the end of
Korihor, Alma having
received tidings that the Zoramites were perverting the
ways of the Lord, and
that Zoram, who was their leader, was leading the hearts
of the people to bow
down to dumb idols, his heart again began to sicken
because of the iniquity of
the people.

ALM 31:2 For it was the cause of great
sorrow to Alma to know of iniquity among
his people; therefore his heart was
exceedingly sorrowful because of the
separation of the Zoramites from the
Nephites.

ALM 31:3 Now the Zoramites had gathered themselves together in a
land which
they called Antionum, which was east of the land of Zarahemla, which
lay nearly
bordering upon the seashore, which was south of the land of Jershon,
which also
bordered upon the wilderness south, which wilderness was full of the
Lamanites.

ALM 31:4 Now the Nephites greatly feared that the Zoramites would
enter into a
correspondence with the Lamanites, and that it would be the means
of great loss
on the part of the Nephites.

ALM 31:5 And now, as the preaching
of the word had a great tendency to lead the
people to do that which was just--
yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the
minds of the people than the
sword, or anything else, which had happened unto
them--therefore Alma thought
it was expedient that they should try the virtue
of the word of God.

ALM 31:6
Therefore he took Ammon, and Aaron, and Omner; and Himni he did leave
in the
church in Zarahemla; but the former three he took with him, and also
Amulek and
Zeezrom, who were at Melek; and he also took two of his sons.

ALM 31:7 Now the
eldest of his sons he took not with him, and his name was
Helaman; but the
names of those whom he took with him were Shiblon and
Corianton; and these are
the names of those who went with him among the
Zoramites, to preach unto them
the word.

ALM 31:8 Now the Zoramites were dissenters from the Nephites;
therefore they
had had the word of God preached unto them.

ALM 31:9 But they
had fallen into great errors, for they would not observe to
keep the
commandments of God, and his statutes, according to the law of Moses.

ALM
31:10 Neither would they observe the performances of the church, to
continue in
prayer and supplication to God daily, that they might not enter
into
temptation.

ALM 31:11 Yea, in fine, they did pervert the ways of the Lord in
very many
instances; therefore, for this cause, Alma and his brethren went into
the land
to preach the word unto them.

ALM 31:12 Now, when they had come into
the land, behold, to their astonishment
they found that the Zoramites had built
synagogues, and that they did gather
themselves together on one day of the
week, which day they did call the day of
the Lord; and they did worship after a
manner which Alma and his brethren had
never beheld;

ALM 31:13 For they had a
place built up in the center of their synagogue, a
place for standing, which
was high above the head, and the top thereof would
only admit one person.

ALM
31:14 Therefore, whosoever desired to worship must go forth and stand upon
the
top thereof, and stretch forth his hands towards heaven, and cry with a
loud
voice, saying:

ALM 31:15 Holy, holy God; we believe that thou art God, and we
believe that
thou art holy, and that thou wast a spirit, and that thou art a
spirit, and
that thou wilt be a spirit forever.

ALM 31:16 Holy God, we believe
that thou hast separated us from our brethren;
and we do not believe in the
tradition of our brethren, which was handed down
to them by the childishness of
their fathers; but we believe that thou hast
elected us to be thy holy
children; and also thou hast made it known unto us
that there shall be no
Christ.

ALM 31:17 But thou art the same yesterday, today, and forever; and
thou hast
elected us that we shall be saved, whilst all around us are elected
to be cast
by thy wrath down to hell; for the which holiness, O God, we thank
thee; and we
also thank thee that thou hast elected us, that we may not be led
away after
the foolish traditions of our brethren, which doth bind them down to
a belief
of Christ, which doth lead their hearts to wander far from thee, our
God.

ALM 31:18 And again we thank thee, O God, that we are a chosen and a
holy
people. Amen.

ALM 31:19 Now it came to pass that after Alma and his
brethren and his sons had
heard these prayers, they were astonished beyond all
measure.

ALM 31:20 For behold, every man did go forth and offer up these same
prayers.

ALM 31:21 Now the place was called by them Rameumptom, which, being

interpreted, is the holy stand.

ALM 31:22 Now, from this stand they did offer
up, every man, the selfsame
prayer unto God, thanking their God that they were
chosen of him, and that he
did not lead them away after the tradition of their
brethren, and that their
hearts were not stolen away to believe in things to
come, which they knew
nothing about.

ALM 31:23 Now, after the people had all
offered up thanks after this manner,
they returned to their homes, never
speaking of their God again until they had
assembled themselves together again
to the holy stand, to offer up thanks after
their manner.

ALM 31:24 Now when
Alma saw this his heart was grieved; for he saw that they
were a wicked and a
perverse people; yea, he saw that their hearts were set
upon gold, and upon
silver, and upon all manner of fine goods.

ALM 31:25 Yea, and he also saw that
their hearts were lifted up unto great
boasting, in their pride.

ALM 31:26 And
he lifted up his voice to heaven, and cried, saying: O, how long,
O Lord, wilt
thou suffer that thy servants shall dwell here below in the flesh,
to behold
such gross wickedness among the children of men?

ALM 31:27 Behold, O God, they
cry unto thee, and yet their hearts are swallowed
up in their pride. Behold, O
God, they cry unto thee with their mouths, while
they are puffed up, even to
greatness, with the vain things of the world.

ALM 31:28 Behold, O my God,
their costly apparel, and their ringlets, and their
bracelets, and their
ornaments of gold, and all their precious things which
they are ornamented
with; and behold, their hearts are set upon them, and yet
they cry unto thee
and say--We thank thee, O God, for we are a chosen people
unto thee, while
others shall perish.

ALM 31:29 Yea, and they say that thou hast made it known
unto them that there
shall be no Christ.

ALM 31:30 O Lord God, how long wilt
thou suffer that such wickedness and
infidelity shall be among this people? O
Lord, wilt thou give me strength, that
I may bear with mine infirmities. For I
am infirm, and such wickedness among
this people doth pain my soul.

ALM 31:31
O Lord, my heart is exceedingly sorrowful; wilt thou comfort my soul
in Christ.
O Lord, wilt thou grant unto me that I may have strength, that I may
suffer
with patience these afflictions which shall come upon me, because of the

iniquity of this people.

ALM 31:32 O Lord, wilt thou comfort my soul, and give
unto me success, and also
my fellow laborers who are with me--yea, Ammon, and
Aaron, and Omner, and also
Amulek and Zeezrom and also my two sons--yea, even
all these wilt thou comfort,
O Lord. Yea, wilt thou comfort their souls in
Christ.

ALM 31:33 Wilt thou grant unto them that they may have strength, that
they may
bear their afflictions which shall come upon them because of the
iniquities of
this people.

ALM 31:34 O Lord, wilt thou grant unto us that we
may have success in bringing
them again unto thee in Christ.

ALM 31:35 Behold,
O Lord, their souls are precious, and many of them are our
brethren; therefore,
give unto us, O Lord, power and wisdom that we may bring
these, our brethren,
again unto thee.

ALM 31:36 Now it came to pass that when Alma had said these
words, that he
clapped his hands upon all them who were with him. And behold,
as he clapped
his hands upon them, they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

ALM
31:37 And after that they did separate themselves one from another, taking
no
thought for themselves what they should eat, or what they should drink, or
what
they should put on.

ALM 31:38 And the Lord provided for them that they should
hunger not, neither
should they thirst; yea, and he also gave them strength,
that they should
suffer no manner of afflictions, save it were swallowed up in
the joy of
Christ. Now this was according to the prayer of Alma; and this
because he
prayed in faith.

ALM 32:0 The poor hearken to message of
salvation--Alma's commendation and
discourse--Faith developed by desire to
believe.

ALM 32:1 And it came to pass that they did go forth, and began to
preach the
word of God unto the people, entering into their synagogues, and
into their
houses; yea, and even they did preach the word in their streets.


ALM 32:2 And it came to pass that after much labor among them, they began to

have success among the poor class of people; for behold, they were cast out of

the synagogues because of the coarseness of their apparel--

ALM 32:3 Therefore
they were not permitted to enter into their synagogues to
worship God, being
esteemed as filthiness; therefore they were poor; yea, they
were esteemed by
their brethren as dross; therefore they were poor as to things
of the world;
and also they were poor in heart.

ALM 32:4 Now, as Alma was teaching and
speaking unto the people upon the hill
Onidah, there came a great multitude
unto him, who were those of whom we have
been speaking, of whom were poor in
heart, because of their poverty as to the
things of the world.

ALM 32:5 And
they came unto Alma; and the one who was the foremost among them
said unto him:
Behold, what shall these my brethren do, for they are despised
of all men
because of their poverty, yea, and more especially by our priests;
for they
have cast us out of our synagogues which we have labored abundantly to
build
with our own hands; and they have cast us out because of our exceeding
poverty;
and we have no place to worship our God; and behold, what shall we do?

ALM
32:6 And now when Alma heard this, he turned him about, his face
immediately
towards him, and he beheld with great joy; for he beheld that their
afflictions
had truly humbled them and that they were in a preparation to hear
the word.


ALM 32:7 Therefore he did say no more to the other multitude; but he stretched

forth his hand, and cried unto those whom he beheld, who were truly penitent,

and said unto them:

ALM 32:8 I behold that ye are lowly in heart; and if so,
blessed are ye.

ALM 32:9 Behold thy brother hath said, What shall we do? --for
we are cast out
of our synagogues, that we cannot worship our God.

ALM 32:10
Behold I say unto you, do ye suppose that ye cannot worship God save
it be in
your synagogues only?

ALM 32:11 And moreover, I would ask, do ye suppose that
ye must not worship God
only once in a week?

ALM 32:12 I say unto you, it is
well that ye are cast out of your synagogues,
that ye may be humble, and that
ye may learn wisdom; for it is necessary that
ye should learn wisdom; for it is
because that ye are cast out, that ye are
despised of your brethren because of
your exceeding poverty, that ye are
brought to a lowliness of heart; for ye are
necessarily brought to be humble.

ALM 32:13 And now, because ye are compelled
to be humble blessed are ye; for a
man sometimes, if he is compelled to be
humble, seeketh repentance; and now
surely, whosoever repenteth shall find
mercy; and he that findeth mercy and
endureth to the end the same shall be
saved.

ALM 32:14 And now, as I said unto you, that because ye were compelled
to be
humble ye were blessed, do ye not suppose that they are more blessed who
truly
humble themselves because of the word?

ALM 32:15 Yea, he that truly
humbleth himself, and repenteth of his sins, and
endureth to the end, the same
shall be blessed--yea, much more blessed than
they who are compelled to be
humble because of their exceeding poverty.

ALM 32:16 Therefore, blessed are
they who humble themselves without being
compelled to be humble; or rather, in
other words, blessed is he that believeth
in the word of God, and is baptized
without stubbornness of heart, yea, without
being brought to know the word, or
even compelled to know, before they will
believe.

ALM 32:17 Yea, there are
many who do say: If thou wilt show unto us a sign from
heaven, then we shall
know of a surety; then we shall believe.

ALM 32:18 Now I ask, is this faith?
Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for if a man
knoweth a thing he hath no cause to
believe, for he knoweth it.

ALM 32:19 And now, how much more cursed is he that
knoweth the will of God and
doeth it not, than he that only believeth, or only
hath cause to believe, and
falleth into transgression?

ALM 32:20 Now of this
thing ye must judge. Behold, I say unto you, that it is
on the one hand even as
it is on the other; and it shall be unto every man
according to his work.

ALM
32:21 And now as I said concerning faith--faith is not to have a perfect

knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are

not seen, which are true.

ALM 32:22 And now, behold, I say unto you, and I
would that ye should remember,
that God is merciful unto all who believe on his
name; therefore he desireth,
in the first place, that ye should believe, yea,
even on his word.

ALM 32:23 And now, he imparteth his word by angels unto men,
yea, not only men
but women also. Now this is not all; little children do have
words given unto
them many times which confound the wise and the learned.

ALM
32:24 And now, my beloved brethren, as ye have desired to know of me what
ye
shall do because ye are afflicted and cast out--now I do not desire that ye

should suppose that I mean to judge you only according to that which is true--

ALM 32:25 For I do not mean that ye all of you have been compelled to humble

yourselves; for I verily believe that there are some among you who would
humble
themselves, let them be in whatsoever circumstances they might.

ALM
32:26 Now, as I said concerning faith--that it was not a perfect
knowledge--
even so it is with my words. Ye cannot know of their surety at
first, unto
perfection, any more than faith is a perfect knowledge.

ALM 32:27 But behold,
if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an
experiment upon my
words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can
no more than
desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye
believe in a
manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.

ALM 32:28 Now, we
will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place,
that a seed may be
planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a
good seed, if ye do
not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the
Spirit of the Lord,
behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and
when you feel these
swelling motions, ye will begin to say within
yourselves--It must needs be that
this is a good seed, or that the word is
good, for it beginneth to enlarge my
soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my
understanding, yea, it beginneth to be
delicious to me.

ALM 32:29 Now behold, would not this increase your faith? I
say unto you, Yea;
nevertheless it hath not grown up to a perfect knowledge.


ALM 32:30 But behold, as the seed swelleth, and sprouteth, and beginneth to

grow, then you must needs say that the seed is good; for behold it swelleth,

and sprouteth, and beginneth to grow. And now, behold, will not this
strengthen
your faith? Yea, it will strengthen your faith: for ye will say I
know that
this is a good seed; for behold it sprouteth and beginneth to grow.


ALM 32:31 And now, behold, are ye sure that this is a good seed? I say unto

you, Yea; for every seed bringeth forth unto its own likeness.

ALM 32:32
Therefore, if a seed groweth it is good, but if it groweth not,
behold it is
not good, therefore it is cast away.

ALM 32:33 And now, behold, because ye
have tried the experiment, and planted
the seed, and it swelleth and sprouteth,
and beginneth to grow, ye must needs
know that the seed is good.

ALM 32:34 And
now, behold, is your knowledge perfect? Yea, your knowledge is
perfect in that
thing, and your faith is dormant; and this because you know,
for ye know that
the word hath swelled your souls, and ye also know that it
hath sprouted up,
that your understanding doth begin to be enlightened, and
your mind doth begin
to expand.

ALM 32:35 O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because it
is light;
and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is discernible,
therefore ye must
know that it is good; and now behold, after ye have tasted
this light is your
knowledge perfect?

ALM 32:36 Behold I say unto you, Nay;
neither must ye lay aside your faith, for
ye have only exercised your faith to
plant the seed that ye might try the
experiment to know if the seed was good.


ALM 32:37 And behold, as the tree beginneth to grow, ye will say: Let us

nourish it with great care, that it may get root, that it may grow up, and

bring forth fruit unto us. And now behold, if ye nourish it with much care it

will get root, and grow up, and bring forth fruit.

ALM 32:38 But if ye neglect
the tree, and take no thought for its nourishment,
behold it will not get any
root; and when the heat of the sun cometh and
scorcheth it, because it hath no
root it withers away, and ye pluck it up and
cast it out.

ALM 32:39 Now, this
is not because the seed was not good, neither is it because
the fruit thereof
would not be desirable; but it is because your ground is
barren, and ye will
not nourish the tree, therefore ye cannot have the fruit
thereof.

ALM 32:40
And thus, if ye will not nourish the word, looking forward with an
eye of faith
to the fruit thereof, ye can never pluck of the fruit of the tree
of life.

ALM
32:41 But if ye will nourish the word, yea, nourish the tree as it
beginneth to
grow, by your faith with great diligence, and with patience,
looking forward to
the fruit thereof, it shall take root; and behold it shall
be a tree springing
up unto everlasting life.

ALM 32:42 And because of your diligence and your
faith and your patience with
the word in nourishing it, that it may take root
in you, behold, by and by ye
shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most
precious, which is sweet above all
that is sweet, and which is white above all
that is white, yea, and pure above
all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon
this fruit even until ye are filled,
that ye hunger not, neither shall ye
thirst.

ALM 32:43 Then, my brethren, ye shall reap the rewards of your faith,
and your
diligence, and patience, and long-suffering, waiting for the tree to
bring
forth fruit unto you.

ALM 33:0 Alma's discourse continued--True worship
not confined to
sanctuaries--The prophets Zenos and Zenock again cited.

ALM
33:1 Now after Alma had spoken these words, they sent forth unto him
desiring
to know whether they should believe in one God, that they might obtain
this
fruit of which he had spoken, or how they should plant the seed, or the
word of
which he had spoken, which he said must be planted in their hearts; or
in what
manner they should begin to exercise their faith.

ALM 33:2 And Alma said unto
them: Behold, ye have said that ye could not
worship your God because ye are
cast out of your synagogues. But behold, I say
unto you, if ye suppose that ye
cannot worship God, ye do greatly err, and ye
ought to search the scriptures;
if ye suppose that they have taught you this,
ye do not understand them.

ALM
33:3 Do ye remember to have read what Zenos, the prophet of old, has said

concerning prayer or worship?

ALM 33:4 For he said: Thou art merciful, O God,
for thou hast heard my prayer,
even when I was in the wilderness; yea, thou
wast merciful when I prayed
concerning those who were mine enemies, and thou
didst turn them to me.

ALM 33:5 Yea, O God, and thou wast merciful unto me
when I did cry unto thee in
my field; when I did cry unto thee in my prayer,
and thou didst hear me.

ALM 33:6 And again, O God, when I did turn to my house
thou didst hear me in my
prayer.

ALM 33:7 And when I did turn unto my closet,
O Lord, and prayed unto thee, thou
didst hear me.

ALM 33:8 Yea, thou art
merciful unto thy children when they cry unto thee, to
be heard of thee and not
of men, and thou wilt hear them.

ALM 33:9 Yea, O God, thou hast been merciful
unto me, and heard my cries in the
midst of thy congregations.

ALM 33:10 Yea,
and thou hast also heard me when I have been cast out and have
been despised by
mine enemies; yea, thou didst hear my cries, and wast angry
with mine enemies,
and thou didst visit them in thine anger with speedy
destruction.

ALM 33:11
And thou didst hear me because of mine afflictions and my sincerity;
and it is
because of thy Son that thou hast been thus merciful unto me,
therefore I will
cry unto thee in all mine afflictions, for in thee is my joy;
for thou hast
turned thy judgments away from me, because of thy Son.

ALM 33:12 And now Alma
said unto them: Do ye believe those scriptures which
have been written by them
of old?

ALM 33:13 Behold, if ye do, ye must believe what Zenos said; for,
behold he
said: Thou hast turned away thy judgments because of thy Son.

ALM
33:14 Now behold, my brethren, I would ask if ye have read the scriptures?
If
ye have, how can ye disbelieve on the Son of God?

ALM 33:15 For it is not
written that Zenos alone spake of these things, but
Zenock also spake of these
things--

ALM 33:16 For behold, he said: Thou art angry, O Lord, with this
people,
because they will not understand thy mercies which thou hast bestowed
upon them
because of thy Son.

ALM 33:17 And now, my brethren, ye see that a
second prophet of old has
testified of the Son of God, and because the people
would not understand his
words they stoned him to death.

ALM 33:18 But behold,
this is not all; these are not the only ones who have
spoken concerning the Son
of God.

ALM 33:19 Behold, he was spoken of by Moses; yea, and behold a type
was raised
up in the wilderness, that whosoever would look upon it might live.
And many
did look and live.

ALM 33:20 But few understood the meaning of those
things, and this because of
the hardness of their hearts. But there were many
who were so hardened that
they would not look, therefore they perished. Now the
reason they would not
look is because they did not believe that it would heal
them.

ALM 33:21 O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting about
your
eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly, or would ye
rather
harden your hearts in unbelief, and be slothful, that ye would not cast
about
your eyes, that ye might perish?

ALM 33:22 If so, wo shall come upon
you; but if not so, then cast about your
eyes and begin to believe in the Son
of God, that he will come to redeem his
people, and that he shall suffer and
die to atone for their sins; and that he
shall rise again from the dead, which
shall bring to pass the resurrection,
that all men shall stand before him, to
be judged at the last and judgment day,
according to their works.

ALM 33:23
And now, my brethren, I desire that ye shall plant this word in your
hearts,
and as it beginneth to swell even so nourish it by your faith. And
behold, it
will become a tree, springing up in you unto everlasting life. And
then may God
grant unto you that your burdens may be light, through the joy of
his Son. And
even all this can ye do if ye will. Amen.

ALM 34:0 Amulek's testimony--The
great and last sacrifice--how mercy satisfies
justice--Repentance not to be
procrastinated.

ALM 34:1 And now it came to pass that after Alma had spoken
these words unto
them he sat down upon the ground, and Amulek arose and began
to teach them,
saying:

ALM 34:2 My brethren, I think that it is impossible
that ye should be ignorant
of the things which have been spoken concerning the
coming of Christ, who is
taught by us to be the Son of God; yea, I know that
these things were taught
unto you bountifully before your dissension from among
us.

ALM 34:3 And as ye have desired of my beloved brother that he should make
known
unto you what ye should do, because of your afflictions; and he hath
spoken
somewhat unto you to prepare your minds; yea, and he hath exhorted you
unto
faith and to patience--

ALM 34:4 Yea, even that ye would have so much
faith as even to plant the word
in your hearts, that ye may try the experiment
of its goodness.

ALM 34:5 And we have beheld that the great question which is
in your minds is
whether the word be in the Son of God, or whether there shall
be no Christ.

ALM 34:6 And ye also beheld that my brother has proved unto you,
in many
instances, that the word is in Christ unto salvation.

ALM 34:7 My
brother has called upon the words of Zenos, that redemption cometh
through the
Son of God, and also upon the words of Zenock; and also he has
appealed unto
Moses, to prove that these things are true.

ALM 34:8 And now, behold, I will
testify unto you of myself that these things
are true. Behold, I say unto you,
that I do know that Christ shall come among
the children of men, to take upon
him the transgressions of his people, and
that he shall atone for the sins of
the world; for the Lord God hath spoken it.

ALM 34:9 For it is expedient that
an atonement should be made; for according to
the great plan of the Eternal God
there must be an atonement made, or else all
mankind must unavoidably perish;
yea, all are hardened; yea, all are fallen and
are lost, and must perish except
it be through the atonement which it is
expedient should be made.

ALM 34:10
For it is expedient that there should be a great and last sacrifice;
yea, not a
sacrifice of man, neither of beast, neither of any manner of fowl;
for it shall
not be a human sacrifice; but it must be an infinite and eternal
sacrifice.


ALM 34:11 Now there is not any man that can sacrifice his own blood which will

atone for the sins of another. Now, if a man murdereth, behold will our law,

which is just, take the life of his brother? I say unto you, Nay.

ALM 34:12
But the law requireth the life of him who hath murdered; therefore
there can be
nothing which is short of an infinite atonement which will suffice
for the sins
of the world.

ALM 34:13 Therefore, it is expedient that there should be a
great and last
sacrifice, and then shall there be, or it is expedient there
should be, a stop
to the shedding of blood; then shall the law of Moses be
fulfilled; yea, it
shall be all fulfilled, every jot and tittle, and none shall
have passed away.

ALM 34:14 And behold, this is the whole meaning of the law,
every whit pointing
to that great and last sacrifice; and that great and last
sacrifice will be the
Son of God, yea, infinite and eternal.

ALM 34:15 And
thus he shall bring salvation to all those who shall believe on
his name; this
being the intent of this last sacrifice, to bring about the
bowels of mercy,
which overpowereth justice, and bringeth about means unto men
that they may
have faith unto repentance.

ALM 34:16 And thus mercy can satisfy the demands
of justice, and encircles them
in the arms of safety, while he that exercises
no faith unto repentance is
exposed to the whole law of the demands of justice;
therefore only unto him
that has faith unto repentance is brought about the
great and eternal plan of
redemption.

ALM 34:17 Therefore may God grant unto
you, my brethren, that ye may begin to
exercise your faith unto repentance,
that ye begin to call upon his holy name,
that he would have mercy upon you;


ALM 34:18 Yea, cry unto him for mercy; for he is mighty to save.

ALM 34:19
Yea, humble yourselves, and continue in prayer unto him.

ALM 34:20 Cry unto
him when ye are in your fields, yea, over all your flocks.

ALM 34:21 Cry unto
him in your houses, yea, over all your household, both
morning, mid-day, and
evening.

ALM 34:22 Yea, cry unto him against the power of your enemies.

ALM
34:23 Yea, cry unto him against the devil, who is an enemy to all

righteousness.

ALM 34:24 Cry unto him over the crops of your fields, that ye
may prosper in
them.

ALM 34:25 Cry over the flocks of your fields, that they
may increase.

ALM 34:26 But this is not all; ye must pour out your souls in
your closets, and
your secret places, and in your wilderness.

ALM 34:27 Yea,
and when you do not cry unto the Lord, let your hearts be full,
drawn out in
prayer unto him continually for your welfare, and also for the
welfare of those
who are around you.

ALM 34:28 And now behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto
you, do not suppose
that this is all; for after ye have done all these things,
if ye turn away the
needy, and the naked, and visit not the sick and afflicted,
and impart of your
substance, if ye have, to those who stand in need--I say
unto you, if ye do not
any of these things, behold, your prayer is vain, and
availeth you nothing, and
ye are as hypocrites who do deny the faith.

ALM
34:29 Therefore, if ye do not remember to be charitable, ye are as dross,
which
the refiners do cast out, (it being of no worth) and is trodden under
foot of
men.

ALM 34:30 And now, my brethren, I would that, after ye have received so
many
witnesses, seeing that the holy scriptures testify of these things, ye
come
forth and bring fruit unto repentance.

ALM 34:31 Yea, I would that ye
would come forth and harden not your hearts any
longer; for behold, now is the
time and the day of your salvation; and
therefore, if ye will repent and harden
not your hearts, immediately shall the
great plan of redemption be brought
about unto you.

ALM 34:32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare
to meet God;
yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform
their labors.

ALM 34:33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so
many witnesses,
therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the
day of your
repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is
given us to
prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while
in this life,
then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor
performed.

ALM 34:34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis,
that I will
repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for
that same
spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of
this life,
that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that
eternal world.

ALM 34:35 For behold, if ye have procrastinated the day of your
repentance even
until death, behold, ye have become subjected to the spirit of
the devil, and
he doth seal you his; therefore, the Spirit of the Lord hath
withdrawn from
you, and hath no place in you, and the devil hath all power over
you; and this
is the final state of the wicked.

ALM 34:36 And this I know,
because the Lord hath said he dwelleth not in unholy
temples, but in the hearts
of the righteous doth he dwell; yea, and he has also
said that the righteous
shall sit down in his kingdom, to go no more out; but
their garments should be
made white through the blood of the Lamb.

ALM 34:37 And now, my beloved
brethren, I desire that ye should remember these
things, and that ye should
work out your salvation with fear before God, and
that ye should no more deny
the coming of Christ;

ALM 34:38 That ye contend no more against the Holy
Ghost, but that ye receive
it, and take upon you the name of Christ; that ye
humble yourselves even to the
dust, and worship God, in whatsoever place ye may
be in, in spirit and in
truth; and that ye live in thanksgiving daily, for the
many mercies and
blessings which he doth bestow upon you.

ALM 34:39 Yea, and I
also exhort you, my brethren, that ye be watchful unto
prayer continually, that
ye may not be led away by the temptations of the
devil, that he may not
overpower you, that ye may not become his subjects at
the last day; for behold,
he rewardeth you no good thing.

ALM 34:40 And now my beloved brethren, I would
exhort you to have patience, and
that ye bear with all manner of afflictions;
that ye do not revile against
those who do cast you out because of your
exceeding poverty, lest ye become
sinners like unto them;

ALM 34:41 But that
ye have patience, and bear with those afflictions, with a
firm hope that ye
shall one day rest from all your afflictions.

ALM 35:0 Nephite missionaries
retire to land of Jershon--Their Zoramite
converts, expelled from their own
country, rejoin them--Preparations for war.

ALM 35:1 Now it came to pass that
after Amulek had made an end of these words,
they withdrew themselves from the
multitude and came over into the land of
Jershon.

ALM 35:2 Yea, and the rest
of the brethren, after they had preached the word
unto the Zoramites, also came
over into the land of Jershon.

ALM 35:3 And it came to pass that after the
more popular part of the Zoramites
had consulted together concerning the words
which had been preached unto them,
they were angry because of the word, for it
did destroy their craft; therefore
they would not hearken unto the words.

ALM
35:4 And they sent and gathered together throughout all the land all the

people, and consulted with them concerning the words which had been spoken.


ALM 35:5 Now their rulers and their priests and their teachers did not let the

people know concerning their desires; therefore they found out privily the

minds of all the people.

ALM 35:6 And it came to pass that after they had
found out the minds of all the
people, those who were in favor of the words
which had been spoken by Alma and
his brethren were cast out of the land; and
they were many; and they came over
also into the land of Jershon.

ALM 35:7 And
it came to pass that Alma and his brethren did minister unto them.

ALM 35:8
Now the people of the Zoramites were angry with the people of Ammon
who were in
Jershon, and the chief ruler of the Zoramites, being a very wicked
man, sent
over unto the people of Ammon desiring them that they should cast out
of their
land all those who came over from them into their land.

ALM 35:9 And he
breathed out many threatenings against them. And now the people
of Ammon did
not fear their words; therefore they did not cast them out, but
they did
receive all the poor of the Zoramites that came over unto them; and
they did
nourish them, and did clothe them, and did give unto them lands for
their
inheritance; and they did administer unto them according to their wants.

ALM
35:10 Now this did stir up the Zoramites to anger against the people of
Ammon,
and they began to mix with the Lamanites and to stir them up also to
anger
against them.

ALM 35:11 And thus the Zoramites and the Lamanites began to make
preparations
for war against the people of Ammon, and also against the
Nephites.

ALM 35:12 And thus ended the seventeenth year of the reign of the
judges over
the people of Nephi.

ALM 35:13 And the people of Ammon departed
out of the land of Jershon, and came
over into the land of Melek, and gave
place in the land of Jershon for the
armies of the Nephites, that they might
contend with the armies of the
Lamanites and the armies of the Zoramites; and
thus commenced a war betwixt the
Lamanites and the Nephites, in the eighteenth
year of the reign of the judges;
and an account shall be given of their wars
hereafter.

ALM 35:14 And Alma, and Ammon, and their brethren, and also the two
sons of
Alma returned to the land of Zarahemla, after having been instruments
in the
hands of God of bringing many of the Zoramites to repentance; and as
many as
were brought to repentance were driven out of their land; but they have
lands
for their inheritance in the land of Jershon, and they have taken up arms
to
defend themselves, and their wives, and children, and their lands.

ALM
35:15 Now Alma, being grieved for the iniquity of his people, yea for the
wars,
and the bloodsheds, and the contentions which were among them; and having
been
to declare the word, or sent to declare the word, among all the people in
every
city; and seeing that the hearts of the people began to wax hard, and
that they
began to be offended because of the strictness of the word, his heart
was
exceedingly sorrowful.

ALM 35:16 Therefore, he caused that his sons should be
gathered together, that
he might give unto them every one his charge,
separately, concerning the things
pertaining unto righteousness. And we have an
account of his commandments,
which he gave unto them according to his own
record.

ALM 36:00 The commandments of Alma to his son, Helaman. Comprising
chapters 36
and 37.

ALM 36:0 Alma recounts his sinful past, his miraculous
conversion, and his
subsequent zeal in the ministry.

ALM 36:1 My son, give ear
to my words; for I swear unto you, that inasmuch as
ye shall keep the
commandments of God ye shall prosper in the land.

ALM 36:2 I would that ye
should do as I have done, in remembering the captivity
of our fathers; for they
were in bondage, and none could deliver them except it
was the God of Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he
surely did deliver them in
their afflictions.

ALM 36:3 And now, O my son Helaman, behold, thou art in thy
youth, and
therefore, I beseech of thee that thou wilt hear my words and learn
of me; for
I do know that whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be
supported in
their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions, and shall
be lifted up
at the last day.

ALM 36:4 And I would not that ye think that I
know of myself--not of the
temporal but of the spiritual, not of the carnal
mind but of God.

ALM 36:5 Now, behold, I say unto you, if I had not been born
of God I should
not have known these things; but God has, by the mouth of his
holy angel, made
these things known unto me, not of any worthiness of myself;


ALM 36:6 For I went about with the sons of Mosiah, seeking to destroy the

church of God; but behold, God sent his holy angel to stop us by the way.

ALM
36:7 And behold, he spake unto us, as it were the voice of thunder, and the

whole earth did tremble beneath our feet; and we all fell to the earth, for
the
fear of the Lord came upon us.

ALM 36:8 But behold, the voice said unto
me: Arise. And I arose and stood up,
and beheld the angel.

ALM 36:9 And he
said unto me: If thou wilt of thyself be destroyed, seek no
more to destroy the
church of God.

ALM 36:10 And it came to pass that I fell to the earth; and it
was for the
space of three days and three nights that I could not open my
mouth, neither
had I the use of my limbs.

ALM 36:11 And the angel spake more
things unto me, which were heard by my
brethren, but I did not hear them; for
when I heard the words--If thou wilt be
destroyed of thyself, seek no more to
destroy the church of God--I was struck
with such great fear and amazement lest
perhaps I should be destroyed, that I
fell to the earth and I did hear no
more.

ALM 36:12 But I was racked with eternal torment, for my soul was
harrowed up to
the greatest degree and racked with all my sins.

ALM 36:13 Yea,
I did remember all my sins and iniquities, for which I was
tormented with the
pains of hell; yea, I saw that I had rebelled against my
God, and that I had
not kept his holy commandments.

ALM 36:14 Yea, and I had murdered many of his
children, or rather led them away
unto destruction; yea, and in fine so great
had been my iniquities, that the
very thought of coming into the presence of my
God did rack my soul with
inexpressible horror.

ALM 36:15 Oh, thought I, that
I could be banished and become extinct both soul
and body, that I might not be
brought to stand in the presence of my God, to be
judged of my deeds.

ALM
36:16 And now, for three days and for three nights was I racked, even with
the
pains of a damned soul.

ALM 36:17 And it came to pass that as I was thus
racked with torment, while I
was harrowed up by the memory of my many sins,
behold, I remembered also to
have heard my father prophesy unto the people
concerning the coming of one
Jesus Christ, a Son of God, to atone for the sins
of the world.

ALM 36:18 Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried
within my
heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall
of
bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death.

ALM
36:19 And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my pains no
more;
yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more.

ALM 36:20 And oh,
what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul
was filled with
joy as exceeding as was my pain!

ALM 36:21 Yea, I say unto you, my son, that
there could be nothing so exquisite
and so bitter as were my pains. Yea, and
again I say unto you, my son, that on
the other hand, there can be nothing so
exquisite and sweet as was my joy.

ALM 36:22 Yea, methought I saw, even as our
father Lehi saw, God sitting upon
his throne, surrounded with numberless
concourses of angels, in the attitude of
singing and praising their God; yea,
and my soul did long to be there.

ALM 36:23 But behold, my limbs did receive
their strength again, and I stood
upon my feet, and did manifest unto the
people that I had been born of God.

ALM 36:24 Yea, and from that time even
until now, I have labored without
ceasing, that I might bring souls unto
repentance; that I might bring them to
taste of the exceeding joy of which I
did taste; that they might also be born
of God, and be filled with the Holy
Ghost.

ALM 36:25 Yea, and now behold, O my son, the Lord doth give me
exceedingly
great joy in the fruit of my labors;

ALM 36:26 For because of the
word which he has imparted unto me, behold, many
have been born of God, and
have tasted as I have tasted, and have seen eye to
eye as I have seen;
therefore they do know of these things of which I have
spoken, as I do know;
and the knowledge which I have is of God.

ALM 36:27 And I have been supported
under trials and troubles of every kind,
yea, and in all manner of afflictions;
yea, God has delivered me from prison,
and from bonds, and from death; yea, and
I do put my trust in him, and he will
still deliver me.

ALM 36:28 And I know
that he will raise me up at the last day, to dwell with
him in glory; yea, and
I will praise him forever, for he has brought our
fathers out of Egypt, and he
has swallowed up the Egyptians in the Red Sea; and
he led them by his power
into the promised land; yea, and he has delivered them
out of bondage and
captivity from time to time.

ALM 36:29 Yea, and he has also brought our
fathers out of the land of
Jerusalem; and he has also, by his everlasting
power, delivered them out of
bondage and captivity, from time to time even down
to the present day; and I
have always retained in remembrance their captivity;
yea, and ye also ought to
retain in remembrance, as I have done, their
captivity.

ALM 36:30 But behold, my son, this is not all; for ye ought to know
as I do
know, that inasmuch as ye shall keep the commandments of God ye shall
prosper
in the land; and ye ought to know also, that inasmuch as ye will not
keep the
commandments of God ye shall be cut off from his presence. Now this
is
according to his word.

ALM 37:0 Helaman entrusted with the records and
other sacred
relics--Gazelem--The Liahona a type of the word of Christ.

ALM
37:1 And now, my son Helaman, I command you that ye take the records which
have
been entrusted with me;

ALM 37:2 And I also command you that ye keep a record
of this people, according
as I have done, upon the plates of Nephi, and keep
all these things sacred
which I have kept, even as I have kept them; for it is
for a wise purpose that
they are kept.

ALM 37:3 And these plates of brass,
which contain these engravings, which have
the records of the holy scriptures
upon them, which have the genealogy of our
forefathers, even from the
beginning--

ALM 37:4 Behold, it has been prophesied by our fathers, that they
should be
kept and handed down from one generation to another, and be kept and
preserved
by the hand of the Lord until they should go forth unto every nation,
kindred,
tongue, and people, that they shall know of the mysteries contained
thereon.

ALM 37:5 And now behold, if they are kept they must retain their
brightness;
yea, and they will retain their brightness; yea, and also shall all
the plates
which do contain that which is holy writ.

ALM 37:6 Now ye may
suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say
unto you, that by
small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and
small means in
many instances doth confound the wise.

ALM 37:7 And the Lord God doth work by
means to bring about his great and
eternal purposes; and by very small means
the Lord doth confound the wise and
bringeth about the salvation of many
souls.

ALM 37:8 And now, it has hitherto been wisdom in God that these things
should
be preserved; for behold, they have enlarged the memory of this people,
yea,
and convinced many of the error of their ways, and brought them to the

knowledge of their God unto the salvation of their souls.

ALM 37:9 Yea, I say
unto you, were it not for these things that these records
do contain, which are
on these plates, Ammon and his brethren could not have
convinced so many
thousands of the Lamanites of the incorrect tradition of
their fathers; yea,
these records and their words brought them unto repentance;
that is, they
brought them to the knowledge of the Lord their God, and to
rejoice in Jesus
Christ their Redeemer.

ALM 37:10 And who knoweth but what they will be the
means of bringing many
thousands of them, yea, and also many thousands of our
stiff-necked brethren,
the Nephites, who are now hardening their hearts in sin
and iniquities, to the
knowledge of their Redeemer?

ALM 37:11 Now these
mysteries are not yet fully made known unto me; therefore I
shall forbear.

ALM
37:12 And it may suffice if I only say they are preserved for a wise
purpose,
which purpose is known unto God; for he doth counsel in wisdom over
all his
works, and his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.

ALM
37:13 O remember, remember, my son Helaman, how strict are the commandments
of
God. And he said: If ye will keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the

land--but if ye keep not his commandments ye shall be cut off from his

presence.

ALM 37:14 And now remember, my son, that God has entrusted you with
these
things, which are sacred, which he has kept sacred, and also which he
will keep
and preserve for a wise purpose in him, that he may show forth his
power unto
future generations.

ALM 37:15 And now behold, I tell you by the
spirit of prophecy, that if ye
transgress the commandments of God, behold,
these things which are sacred shall
be taken away from you by the power of God,
and ye shall be delivered up unto
Satan, that he may sift you as chaff before
the wind.

ALM 37:16 But if ye keep the commandments of God, and do with these
things
which are sacred according to that which the Lord doth command you, (for
you
must appeal unto the Lord for all things whatsoever ye must do with them)

behold, no power of earth or hell can take them from you, for God is powerful

to the fulfilling of all his words.

ALM 37:17 For he will fulfil all his
promises which he shall make unto you, for
he has fulfilled his promises which
he has made unto our fathers.

ALM 37:18 For he promised unto them that he
would preserve these things for a
wise purpose in him, that he might show forth
his power unto future
generations.

ALM 37:19 And now behold, one purpose hath
he fulfilled, even to the
restoration of many thousands of the Lamanites to the
knowledge of the truth;
and he hath shown forth his power in them, and he will
also still show forth
his power in them unto future generations; therefore they
shall be preserved.

ALM 37:20 Therefore I command you, my son Helaman, that ye
be diligent in
fulfilling all my words, and that ye be diligent in keeping the
commandments of
God as they are written.

ALM 37:21 And now, I will speak unto
you concerning those twenty-four plates,
that ye keep them, that the mysteries
and the works of darkness, and their
secret works, or the secret works of those
people who have been destroyed, may
be made manifest unto this people; yea, all
their murders, and robbings, and
their plunderings, and all their wickedness
and abominations, may be made
manifest unto this people; yea, and that ye
preserve these interpreters.

ALM 37:22 For behold, the Lord saw that his
people began to work in darkness,
yea, work secret murders and abominations;
therefore the Lord said, if they did
not repent they should be destroyed from
off the face of the earth.

ALM 37:23 And the Lord said: I will prepare unto my
servant Gazelem, a stone,
which shall shine forth in darkness unto light, that
I may discover unto my
people who serve me, that I may discover unto them the
works of their brethren,
yea, their secret works, their works of darkness, and
their wickedness and
abominations.

ALM 37:24 And now, my son, these
interpreters were prepared that the word of
God might be fulfilled, which he
spake, saying:

ALM 37:25 I will bring forth out of darkness unto light all
their secret works
and their abominations; and except they repent I will
destroy them from off the
face of the earth; and I will bring to light all
their secrets and
abominations, unto every nation that shall hereafter possess
the land.

ALM 37:26 And now, my son, we see that they did not repent;
therefore they have
been destroyed, and thus far the word of God has been
fulfilled; yea, their
secret abominations have been brought out of darkness and
made known unto us.

ALM 37:27 And now, my son, I command you that ye retain
all their oaths, and
their covenants, and their agreements in their secret
abominations; yea, and
all their signs and their wonders ye shall keep from
this people, that they
know them not, lest peradventure they should fall into
darkness also and be
destroyed.

ALM 37:28 For behold, there is a curse upon
all this land, that destruction
shall come upon all those workers of darkness,
according to the power of God,
when they are fully ripe; therefore I desire
that this people might not be
destroyed.

ALM 37:29 Therefore ye shall keep
these secret plans of their oaths and their
covenants from this people, and
only their wickedness and their murders and
their abominations shall ye make
known unto them; and ye shall teach them to
abhor such wickedness and
abominations and murders; and ye shall also teach
them that these people were
destroyed on account of their wickedness and
abominations and their murders.


ALM 37:30 For behold, they murdered all the prophets of the Lord who came
among
them to declare unto them concerning their iniquities; and the blood of
those
whom they murdered did cry unto the Lord their God for vengeance upon
those who
were their murderers; and thus the judgments of God did come upon
these workers
of darkness and secret combinations.

ALM 37:31 Yea, and cursed
be the land forever and ever unto those workers of
darkness and secret
combinations, even unto destruction, except they repent
before they are fully
ripe.

ALM 37:32 And now, my son, remember the words which I have spoken unto
you;
trust not those secret plans unto this people, but teach them an
everlasting
hatred against sin and iniquity.

ALM 37:33 Preach unto them
repentance, and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ;
teach them to humble themselves
and to be meek and lowly in heart; teach them
to withstand every temptation of
the devil, with their faith on the Lord Jesus
Christ.

ALM 37:34 Teach them to
never be weary of good works, but to be meek and lowly
in heart; for such shall
find rest to their souls.

ALM 37:35 O, remember, my son, and learn wisdom in
thy youth; yea, learn in thy
youth to keep the commandments of God.

ALM 37:36
Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be
unto the
Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all
thy
thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be

placed upon the Lord forever.

ALM 37:37 Counsel with the Lord in all thy
doings, and he will direct thee for
good; yea, when thou liest down at night
lie down unto the Lord, that he may
watch over you in your sleep; and when thou
risest in the morning let thy heart
be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do
these things, ye shall be lifted up at
the last day.

ALM 37:38 And now, my
son, I have somewhat to say concerning the thing which
our fathers call a ball,
or director--or our fathers called it Liahona, which
is, being interpreted, a
compass; and the Lord prepared it.

ALM 37:39 And behold, there cannot any man
work after the manner of so curious
a workmanship. And behold, it was prepared
to show unto our fathers the course
which they should travel in the
wilderness.

ALM 37:40 And it did work for them according to their faith in
God; therefore,
if they had faith to believe that God could cause that those
spindles should
point the way they should go, behold, it was done; therefore
they had this
miracle, and also many other miracles wrought by the power of
God, day by day.

ALM 37:41 Nevertheless, because those miracles were worked by
small means it
did show unto them marvelous works. They were slothful, and
forgot to exercise
their faith and diligence and then those marvelous works
ceased, and they did
not progress in their journey;

ALM 37:42 Therefore, they
tarried in the wilderness, or did not travel a direct
course, and were
afflicted with hunger and thirst, because of their
transgressions.

ALM 37:43
And now, my son, I would that ye should understand that these things
are not
without a shadow; for as our fathers were slothful to give heed to this
compass
(now these things were temporal) they did not prosper; even so it is
with
things which are spiritual.

ALM 37:44 For behold, it is as easy to give heed
to the word of Christ, which
will point to you a straight course to eternal
bliss, as it was for our fathers
to give heed to this compass, which would
point unto them a straight course to
the promised land.

ALM 37:45 And now I
say, is there not a type in this thing? For just as surely
as this director did
bring our fathers, by following its course, to the
promised land, shall the
words of Christ, if we follow their course, carry us
beyond this vale of sorrow
into a far better land of promise.

ALM 37:46 O my son, do not let us be
slothful because of the easiness of the
way; for so was it with our fathers;
for so was it prepared for them, that if
they would look they might live; even
so it is with us. The way is prepared,
and if we will look we may live
forever.

ALM 37:47 And now, my son, see that ye take care of these sacred
things, yea,
see that ye look to God and live. Go unto this people and declare
the word, and
be sober. My son, farewell.

ALM 38:00 The commandments of Alma
to his son, Shiblon.

ALM 38:0 Commended for faithfulness, and counseled to
observe meekness and
self-control.

ALM 38:1 My son, give ear to my words, for
I say unto you, even as I said unto
Helaman, that inasmuch as ye shall keep the
commandments of God ye shall
prosper in the land; and inasmuch as ye will not
keep the commandments of God
ye shall be cut off from his presence.

ALM 38:2
And now, my son, I trust that I shall have great joy in you, because
of your
steadiness and your faithfulness unto God; for as you have commenced in
your
youth to look to the Lord your God, even so I hope that you will continue
in
keeping his commandments; for blessed is he that endureth to the end.

ALM 38:3
I say unto you, my son, that I have had great joy in thee already,
because of
thy faithfulness and thy diligence, and thy patience and thy
long-suffering
among the people of the Zoramites.

ALM 38:4 For I know that thou wast in
bonds; yea, and I also know that thou
wast stoned for the word's sake; and thou
didst bear all these things with
patience because the Lord was with thee; and
now thou knowest that the Lord did
deliver thee.

ALM 38:5 And now my son,
Shiblon, I would that ye should remember, that as much
as ye shall put your
trust in God even so much ye shall be delivered out of
your trials, and your
troubles, and your afflictions, and ye shall be lifted up
at the last day.

ALM
38:6 Now, my son, I would not that ye should think that I know these things
of
myself, but it is the Spirit of God which is in me which maketh these things

known unto me; for if I had not been born of God I should not have known these

things.

ALM 38:7 But behold, the Lord in his great mercy sent his angel to
declare unto
me that I must stop the work of destruction among his people; yea,
and I have
seen an angel face to face, and he spake with me, and his voice was
as thunder,
and it shook the whole earth.

ALM 38:8 And it came to pass that I
was three days and three nights in the most
bitter pain and anguish of soul;
and never, until I did cry out unto the Lord
Jesus Christ for mercy, did I
receive a remission of my sins. But behold, I did
cry unto him and I did find
peace to my soul.

ALM 38:9 And now, my son, I have told you this that ye may
learn wisdom, that
ye may learn of me that there is no other way or means
whereby man can be
saved, only in and through Christ. Behold, he is the life
and the light of the
world. Behold, he is the word of truth and righteousness.

ALM 38:10 And now, as ye have begun to teach the word even so I would that ye

should continue to teach; and I would that ye would be diligent and temperate

in all things.

ALM 38:11 See that ye are not lifted up unto pride; yea, see
that ye do not
boast in your own wisdom, nor of your much strength.

ALM 38:12
Use boldness, but not overbearance; and also see that ye bridle all
your
passions, that ye may be filled with love; see that ye refrain from
idleness.


ALM 38:13 Do not pray as the Zoramites do, for ye have seen that they pray to

be heard of men, and to be praised for their wisdom.

ALM 38:14 Do not say: O
God, I thank thee that we are better than our brethren;
but rather say: O Lord,
forgive my unworthiness, and remember my brethren in
mercy--yea, acknowledge
your unworthiness before God at all times.

ALM 38:15 And may the Lord bless
your soul, and receive you at the last day
into his kingdom, to sit down in
peace. Now go, my son, and teach the word unto
this people. Be sober. My son,
farewell.

ALM 39:00 The commandments of Alma to his son, Corianton. Comprising
chapters
39 to 42 inclusive.

ALM 39:0 Corianton reproved for harlotry--His
sinful conduct had affected faith
of the Zoramites--Christ's redemption
retroactive.

ALM 39:1 And now, my son, I have somewhat more to say unto thee
than what I
said unto thy brother; for behold, have ye not observed the
steadiness of thy
brother, his faithfulness, and his diligence in keeping the
commandments of
God? Behold, has he not set a good example for thee?

ALM 39:2
For thou didst not give so much heed unto my words as did thy brother,
among
the people of the Zoramites. Now this is what I have against thee; thou
didst
go on unto boasting in thy strength and thy wisdom.

ALM 39:3 And this is not
all, my son. Thou didst do that which was grievous
unto me; for thou didst
forsake the ministry, and did go over into the land of
Siron among the borders
of the Lamanites, after the harlot Isabel.

ALM 39:4 Yea, she did steal away
the hearts of many; but this was no excuse for
thee, my son. Thou shouldst have
tended to the ministry wherewith thou wast
entrusted.

ALM 39:5 Know ye not, my
son, that these things are an abomination in the sight
of the Lord; yea, most
abominable above all sins save it be the shedding of
innocent blood or denying
the Holy Ghost?

ALM 39:6 For behold, if ye deny the Holy Ghost when it once
has had place in
you, and ye know that ye deny it, behold, this is a sin which
is unpardonable;
yea, and whosoever murdereth against the light and knowledge
of God, it is not
easy for him to obtain forgiveness; yea, I say unto you, my
son, that it is not
easy for him to obtain a forgiveness.

ALM 39:7 And now, my
son, I would to God that ye had not been guilty of so
great a crime. I would
not dwell upon your crimes, to harrow up your soul, if
it were not for your
good.

ALM 39:8 But behold, ye cannot hide your crimes from God; and except ye
repent
they will stand as a testimony against you at the last day.

ALM 39:9
Now my son, I would that ye should repent and forsake your sins, and
go no more
after the lusts of your eyes, but cross yourself in all these
things; for
except ye do this ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God. Oh,
remember,
and take it upon you, and cross yourself in these things.

ALM 39:10 And I
command you to take it upon you to counsel with your elder
brothers in your
undertakings; for behold, thou art in thy youth, and ye stand
in need to be
nourished by your brothers. And give heed to their counsel.

ALM 39:11 Suffer
not yourself to be led away by any vain or foolish thing;
suffer not the devil
to lead away your heart again after those wicked harlots.
Behold, O my son, how
great iniquity ye brought upon the Zoramites; for when
they saw your conduct
they would not believe in my words.

ALM 39:12 And now the Spirit of the Lord
doth say unto me: Command thy children
to do good, lest they lead away the
hearts of many people to destruction;
therefore I command you, my son, in the
fear of God, that ye refrain from your
iniquities;

ALM 39:13 That ye turn to
the Lord with all your mind, might, and strength;
that ye lead away the hearts
of no more to do wickedly; but rather return unto
them, and acknowledge your
faults and that wrong which ye have done.

ALM 39:14 Seek not after riches nor
the vain things of this world; for behold,
you cannot carry them with you.

ALM
39:15 And now, my son, I would say somewhat unto you concerning the coming
of
Christ. Behold, I say unto you, that it is he that surely shall come to take

away the sins of the world; yea, he cometh to declare glad tidings of
salvation
unto his people.

ALM 39:16 And now, my son, this was the ministry
unto which ye were called, to
declare these glad tidings unto this people, to
prepare their minds; or rather
that salvation might come unto them, that they
may prepare the minds of their
children to hear the word at the time of his
coming.

ALM 39:17 And now I will ease your mind somewhat on this subject.
Behold, you
marvel why these things should be known so long beforehand. Behold,
I say unto
you, is not a soul at this time as precious unto God as a soul will
be at the
time of his coming?

ALM 39:18 Is it not as necessary that the plan
of redemption should be made
known unto this people as well as unto their
children?

ALM 39:19 Is it not as easy at this time for the Lord to send his
angel to
declare these glad tidings unto us as unto our children, or as after
the time
of his coming?

ALM 40:0 Alma to Corianton continued--Resurrection
universal--Separate states
of righteous and wicked between death and
resurrection--A literal restoration.

ALM 40:1 Now my son, here is somewhat
more I would say unto thee; for I
perceive that thy mind is worried concerning
the resurrection of the dead.

ALM 40:2 Behold, I say unto you, that there is
no resurrection--or, I would
say, in other words, that this mortal does not put
on immortality, this
corruption does not put on incorruption--until after the
coming of Christ.

ALM 40:3 Behold, he bringeth to pass the resurrection of the
dead. But behold,
my son, the resurrection is not yet. Now, I unfold unto you a
mystery;
nevertheless, there are many mysteries which are kept, that no one
knoweth them
save God himself. But I show unto you one thing which I have
inquired
diligently of God that I might know--that is concerning the
resurrection.

ALM 40:4 Behold, there is a time appointed that all shall come
forth from the
dead. Now when this time cometh no one knows; but God knoweth
the time which is
appointed.

ALM 40:5 Now, whether there shall be one time, or
a second time, or a third
time, that men shall come forth from the dead, it
mattereth not; for God
knoweth all these things; and it sufficeth me to know
that this is the
case--that there is a time appointed that all shall rise from
the dead.

ALM 40:6 Now there must needs be a space betwixt the time of death
and the time
of the resurrection.

ALM 40:7 And now I would inquire what
becometh of the souls of men from this
time of death to the time appointed for
the resurrection?

ALM 40:8 Now whether there is more than one time appointed
for men to rise it
mattereth not; for all do not die at once, and this
mattereth not; all is as
one day with God, and time only is measured unto men.

ALM 40:9 Therefore, there is a time appointed unto men that they shall rise

from the dead; and there is a space between the time of death and the

resurrection. And now, concerning this space of time, what becometh of the

souls of men is the thing which I have inquired diligently of the Lord to
know;
and this is the thing of which I do know.

ALM 40:10 And when the time
cometh when all shall rise, then shall they know
that God knoweth all the times
which are appointed unto man.

ALM 40:11 Now, concerning the state of the soul
between death and the
resurrection--Behold, it has been made known unto me by
an angel, that the
spirits of all men, as soon as they are departed from this
mortal body, yea,
the spirits of all men, whether they be good or evil, are
taken home to that
God who gave them life.

ALM 40:12 And then shall it come to
pass, that the spirits of those who are
righteous are received into a state of
happiness, which is called paradise, a
state of rest, a state of peace, where
they shall rest from all their troubles
and from all care, and sorrow.

ALM
40:13 And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of the wicked, yea,
who
are evil--for behold, they have no part nor portion of the Spirit of the
Lord;
for behold, they chose evil works rather than good; therefore the spirit
of the
devil did enter into them, and take possession of their house--and these
shall
be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping, and wailing, and

gnashing of teeth, and this because of their own iniquity, being led captive
by
the will of the devil.

ALM 40:14 Now this is the state of the souls of the
wicked, yea, in darkness,
and a state of awful, fearful looking for the fiery
indignation of the wrath of
God upon them; thus they remain in this state, as
well as the righteous in
paradise, until the time of their resurrection.

ALM
40:15 Now, there are some that have understood that this state of happiness
and
this state of misery of the soul, before the resurrection, was a first

resurrection. Yea, I admit it may be termed a resurrection, the raising of the

spirit or the soul and their consignation to happiness or misery, according to

the words which have been spoken.

ALM 40:16 And behold, again it hath been
spoken, that there is a first
resurrection, a resurrection of all those who
have been, or who are, or who
shall be, down to the resurrection of Christ from
the dead.

ALM 40:17 Now, we do not suppose that this first resurrection, which
is spoken
of in this manner, can be the resurrection of the souls and their
consignation
to happiness or misery. Ye cannot suppose that this is what it
meaneth.

ALM 40:18 Behold, I say unto you, Nay; but it meaneth the reuniting
of the soul
with the body, of those from the days of Adam down to the
resurrection of
Christ.

ALM 40:19 Now, whether the souls and the bodies of
those of whom has been
spoken shall all be reunited at once, the wicked as well
as the righteous, I do
not say; let it suffice, that I say that they all come
forth; or in other
words, their resurrection cometh to pass before the
resurrection of those who
die after the resurrection of Christ.

ALM 40:20 Now,
my son, I do not say that their resurrection cometh at the
resurrection of
Christ; but behold, I give it as my opinion, that the souls and
the bodies are
reunited, of the righteous, at the resurrection of Christ, and
his ascension
into heaven.

ALM 40:21 But whether it be at his resurrection or after, I do
not say; but
this much I say, that there is a space between death and the
resurrection of
the body, and a state of the soul in happiness or in misery
until the time
which is appointed of God that the dead shall come forth, and be
reunited, both
soul and body, and be brought to stand before God, and be judged
according to
their works.

ALM 40:22 Yea, this bringeth about the restoration
of those things of which has
been spoken by the mouths of the prophets.

ALM
40:23 The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul;
yea,
and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair
of the
head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper
and
perfect frame.

ALM 40:24 And now, my son, this is the restoration of which has
been spoken by
the mouths of the prophets--

ALM 40:25 And then shall the
righteous shine forth in the kingdom of God.

ALM 40:26 But behold, an awful
death cometh upon the wicked; for they die as to
things pertaining to things of
righteousness; for they are unclean, and no
unclean thing can inherit the
kingdom of God; but they are cast out, and
consigned to partake of the fruits
of their labors or their works, which have
been evil; and they drink the dregs
of a bitter cup.

ALM 41:0 Alma to Corianton continued--What restoration
signifies--men to be
judged according to their deeds and desires--Self-
judgment.

ALM 41:1 And now, my son, I have somewhat to say concerning the
restoration of
which has been spoken; for behold, some have wrested the
scriptures, and have
gone far astray because of this thing. And I perceive that
thy mind has been
worried also concerning this thing. But behold, I will
explain it unto thee.

ALM 41:2 I say unto thee, my son, that the plan of
restoration is requisite
with the justice of God; for it is requisite that all
things should be restored
to their proper order. Behold, it is requisite and
just, according to the power
and resurrection of Christ, that the soul of man
should be restored to its
body, and that every part of the body should be
restored to itself.

ALM 41:3 And it is requisite with the justice of God that
men should be judged
according to their works; and if their works were good in
this life, and the
desires of their hearts were good, that they should also, at
the last day, be
restored unto that which is good.

ALM 41:4 And if their works
are evil they shall be restored unto them for evil.
Therefore, all things shall
be restored to their proper order, every thing to
its natural frame--mortality
raised to immortality, corruption to
incorruption--raised to endless happiness
to inherit the kingdom of God, or to
endless misery to inherit the kingdom of
the devil, the one on one hand, the
other on the other--

ALM 41:5 The one
raised to happiness according to his desires of happiness, or
good according to
his desires of good; and the other to evil according to his
desires of evil;
for as he has desired to do evil all the day long even so
shall he have his
reward of evil when the night cometh.

ALM 41:6 And so it is on the other hand.
If he hath repented of his sins, and
desired righteousness until the end of his
days, even so he shall be rewarded
unto righteousness.

ALM 41:7 These are they
that are redeemed of the Lord; yea, these are they that
are taken out, that are
delivered from that endless night of darkness; and thus
they stand or fall; for
behold, they are their own judges, whether to do good
or do evil.

ALM 41:8
Now, the decrees of God are unalterable; therefore, the way is
prepared that
whosoever will may walk therein and be saved.

ALM 41:9 And now behold, my son,
do not risk one more offense against your God
upon those points of doctrine,
which ye have hitherto risked to commit sin.

ALM 41:10 Do not suppose, because
it has been spoken concerning restoration,
that ye shall be restored from sin
to happiness. Behold, I say unto you,
wickedness never was happiness.

ALM
41:11 And now, my son, all men that are in a state of nature, or I would
say,
in a carnal state, are in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of
iniquity;
they are without God in the world, and they have gone contrary to the
nature of
God; therefore, they are in a state contrary to the nature of
happiness.

ALM
41:12 And now behold, is the meaning of the word restoration to take a
thing of
a natural state and place it in an unnatural state, or to place it in
a state
opposite to its nature?

ALM 41:13 O, my son, this is not the case; but the
meaning of the word
restoration is to bring back again evil for evil, or carnal
for carnal, or
devilish for devilish--good for that which is good; righteous
for that which is
righteous; just for that which is just; merciful for that
which is merciful.

ALM 41:14 Therefore, my son, see that you are merciful unto
your brethren; deal
justly, judge righteously, and do good continually; and if
ye do all these
things then shall ye receive your reward; yea, ye shall have
mercy restored
unto you again; ye shall have justice restored unto you again;
ye shall have a
righteous judgment restored unto you again; and ye shall have
good rewarded
unto you again.

ALM 41:15 For that which ye do send out shall
return unto you again, and be
restored; therefore, the word restoration more
fully condemneth the sinner, and
justifieth him not at all.

ALM 42:0 Alma to
Corianton continued--Justice and mercy expounded--The tree of
life--Mortality a
period of probation--Spiritual and temporal
death--Repentance, atonement, law,
punishment, all necessary.

ALM 42:1 And now, my son, I perceive there is
somewhat more which doth worry
your mind, which ye cannot understand--which is
concerning the justice of God
in the punishment of the sinner; for ye do try to
suppose that it is injustice
that the sinner should be consigned to a state of
misery.

ALM 42:2 Now behold, my son, I will explain this thing unto thee. For
behold,
after the Lord God sent our first parents forth from the garden of
Eden, to
till the ground, from whence they were taken--yea, he drew out the
man, and he
placed at the east end of the garden of Eden, cherubim, and a
flaming sword
which turned every way, to keep the tree of life--

ALM 42:3 Now,
we see that the man had become as God, knowing good and evil; and
lest he
should put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat
and live
forever, the Lord God placed cherubim and the flaming sword, that he
should not
partake of the fruit--

ALM 42:4 And thus we see, that there was a time granted
unto man to repent,
yea, a probationary time, a time to repent and serve God.


ALM 42:5 For behold, if Adam had put forth his hand immediately, and partaken

of the tree of life, he would have lived forever, according to the word of
God,
having no space for repentance; yea, and also the word of God would have
been
void, and the great plan of salvation would have been frustrated.

ALM
42:6 But behold, it was appointed unto man to die--therefore, as they were
cut
off from the tree of life they should be cut off from the face of the
earth--
and man became lost forever, yea, they became fallen man.

ALM 42:7 And now, ye
see by this that our first parents were cut off both
temporally and spiritually
from the presence of the Lord; and thus we see they
became subjects to follow
after their own will.

ALM 42:8 Now behold, it was not expedient that man
should be reclaimed from
this temporal death, for that would destroy the great
plan of happiness.

ALM 42:9 Therefore, as the soul could never die, and the
fall had brought upon
all mankind a spiritual death as well as a temporal, that
is, they were cut off
from the presence of the Lord, it was expedient that
mankind should be
reclaimed from this spiritual death.

ALM 42:10 Therefore, as
they had become carnal, sensual, and devilish, by
nature, this probationary
state became a state for them to prepare; it became a
preparatory state.

ALM
42:11 And now remember, my son, if it were not for the plan of redemption,

(laying it aside) as soon as they were dead their souls were miserable, being

cut off from the presence of the Lord.

ALM 42:12 And now, there was no means
to reclaim men from this fallen state,
which man had brought upon himself
because of his own disobedience;

ALM 42:13 Therefore, according to justice,
the plan of redemption could not be
brought about, only on conditions of
repentance of men in this probationary
state, yea, this preparatory state; for
except it were for these conditions,
mercy could not take effect except it
should destroy the work of justice. Now
the work of justice could not be
destroyed; if so, God would cease to be God.

ALM 42:14 And thus we see that
all mankind were fallen, and they were in the
grasp of justice; yea, the
justice of God, which consigned them forever to be
cut off from his presence.


ALM 42:15 And now, the plan of mercy could not be brought about except an

atonement should be made; therefore God himself atoneth for the sins of the

world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease the demands of justice,

that God might be a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also.

ALM 42:16 Now,
repentance could not come unto men except there were a
punishment, which also
was eternal as the life of the soul should be, affixed
opposite to the plan of
happiness, which was as eternal also as the life of the
soul.

ALM 42:17 Now,
how could a man repent except he should sin? How could he sin if
there was no
law? How could there be a law save there was a punishment?

ALM 42:18 Now,
there was a punishment affixed, and a just law given, which
brought remorse of
conscience unto man.

ALM 42:19 Now, if there was no law given--if a man
murdered he should
die--would he be afraid he would die if he should murder?


ALM 42:20 And also, if there was no law given against sin men would not be

afraid to sin.

ALM 42:21 And if there was no law given, if men sinned what
could justice do,
or mercy either, for they would have no claim upon the
creature?

ALM 42:22 But there is a law given, and a punishment affixed, and a
repentance
granted; which repentance, mercy claimeth; otherwise, justice
claimeth the
creature and executeth the law, and the law inflicteth the
punishment; if not
so, the works of justice would be destroyed, and God would
cease to be God.

ALM 42:23 But God ceaseth not to be God, and mercy claimeth
the penitent, and
mercy cometh because of the atonement; and the atonement
bringeth to pass the
resurrection of the dead; and the resurrection of the dead
bringeth back men
into the presence of God; and thus they are restored into his
presence, to be
judged according to their works, according to the law and
justice.

ALM 42:24 For behold, justice exerciseth all his demands, and also
mercy
claimeth all which is her own; and thus, none but the truly penitent are
saved.

ALM 42:25 What, do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? I say unto
you, Nay;
not one whit. If so, God would cease to be God.

ALM 42:26 And thus
God bringeth about his great and eternal purposes, which
were prepared from the
foundation of the world. And thus cometh about the
salvation and the redemption
of men, and also their destruction and misery.

ALM 42:27 Therefore, O my son,
whosoever will come may come and partake of the
waters of life freely; and
whosoever will not come the same is not compelled to
come; but in the last day
it shall be restored unto him according to his deeds.

ALM 42:28 If he has
desired to do evil, and has not repented in his days,
behold, evil shall be
done unto him, according to the restoration of God.

ALM 42:29 And now, my son,
I desire that ye should let these things trouble you
no more, and only let your
sins trouble you, with that trouble which shall
bring you down unto
repentance.

ALM 42:30 O my son, I desire that ye should deny the justice of
God no more. Do
not endeavor to excuse yourself in the least point because of
your sins, by
denying the justice of God; but do you let the justice of God,
and his mercy,
and his long-suffering have full sway in your heart; and let it
bring you down
to the dust in humility.

ALM 42:31 And now, O my son, ye are
called of God to preach the word unto this
people. And now, my son, go thy way,
declare the word with truth and soberness,
that thou mayest bring souls unto
repentance, that the great plan of mercy may
have claim upon them. And may God
grant unto you even according to my words.
Amen.

ALM 43:0 Another Lamanite
invasion--Armies of Moroni and Lehi surround and
overpower the enemy.

ALM 43:1
And now it came to pass that the sons of Alma did go forth among the
people, to
declare the word unto them. And Alma, also, himself, could not rest,
and he
also went forth.

ALM 43:2 Now we shall say no more concerning their preaching,
except that they
preached the word, and the truth, according to the spirit of
prophecy and
revelation; and they preached after the holy order of God by which
they were
called.

ALM 43:3 And now I return to an account of the wars between
the Nephites and
the Lamanites, in the eighteenth year of the reign of the
judges.

ALM 43:4 For behold, it came to pass that the Zoramites became
Lamanites;
therefore, in the commencement of the eighteenth year the people of
the
Nephites saw that the Lamanites were coming upon them; therefore they made

preparations for war; yea, they gathered together their armies in the land of

Jershon.

ALM 43:5 And it came to pass that the Lamanites came with their
thousands; and
they came into the land of Antionum, which is the land of the
Zoramites; and a
man by the name of Zerahemnah was their leader.

ALM 43:6 And
now, as the Amalekites were of a more wicked and murderous
disposition than the
Lamanites were, in and of themselves, therefore,
Zerahemnah appointed chief
captains over the Lamanites, and they were all
Amalekites and Zoramites.

ALM
43:7 Now this he did that he might preserve their hatred towards the
Nephites,
that he might bring them into subjection to the accomplishment of his
designs.

ALM 43:8 For behold, his designs were to stir up the Lamanites to anger
against
the Nephites; this he did that he might usurp great power over them,
and also
that he might gain power over the Nephites by bringing them into
bondage.

ALM 43:9 And now the design of the Nephites was to support their
lands, and
their houses, and their wives, and their children, that they might
preserve
them from the hands of their enemies; and also that they might
preserve their
rights and their privileges, yea, and also their liberty, that
they might
worship God according to their desires.

ALM 43:10 For they knew
that if they should fall into the hands of the
Lamanites, that whosoever should
worship God in spirit and in truth, the true
and the living God, the Lamanites
would destroy.

ALM 43:11 Yea, and they also knew the extreme hatred of the
Lamanites towards
their brethren, who were the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, who
were called the
people of Ammon--and they would not take up arms, yea, they had
entered into a
covenant and they would not break it--therefore, if they should
fall into the
hands of the Lamanites they would be destroyed.

ALM 43:12 And
the Nephites would not suffer that they should be destroyed;
therefore they
gave them lands for their inheritance.

ALM 43:13 And the people of Ammon did
give unto the Nephites a large portion of
their substance to support their
armies; and thus the Nephites were compelled,
alone, to withstand against the
Lamanites, who were a compound of Laman and
Lemuel, and the sons of Ishmael,
and all those who had dissented from the
Nephites, who were Amalekites and
Zoramites, and the descendants of the priests
of Noah.

ALM 43:14 Now those
descendants were as numerous, nearly, as were the Nephites;
and thus the
Nephites were obliged to contend with their brethren, even unto
bloodshed.

ALM
43:15 And it came to pass as the armies of the Lamanites had gathered
together
in the land of Antionum, behold, the armies of the Nephites were
prepared to
meet them in the land of Jershon.

ALM 43:16 Now, the leader of the Nephites,
or the man who had been appointed to
be the chief captain over the Nephites--
now the chief captain took the command
of all the armies of the Nephites--and
his name was Moroni;

ALM 43:17 And Moroni took all the command, and the
government of their wars.
And he was only twenty and five years old when he was
appointed chief captain
over the armies of the Nephites.

ALM 43:18 And it came
to pass that he met the Lamanites in the borders of
Jershon, and his people
were armed with swords, and with cimeters, and all
manner of weapons of war.


ALM 43:19 And when the armies of the Lamanites saw that the people of Nephi,
or
that Moroni, had prepared his people with breastplates and with arm-
shields,
yea, and also shields to defend their heads, and also they were
dressed with
thick clothing--

ALM 43:20 Now the army of Zerahemnah was not
prepared with any such thing; they
had only their swords and their cimeters,
their bows and their arrows, their
stones and their slings; and they were
naked, save it were a skin which was
girded about their loins; yea, all were
naked, save it were the Zoramites and
the Amalekites;

ALM 43:21 But they were
not armed with breastplates, nor shields--therefore,
they were exceedingly
afraid of the armies of the Nephites because of their
armor, notwithstanding
their number being so much greater than the Nephites.

ALM 43:22 Behold, now it
came to pass that they durst not come against the
Nephites in the borders of
Jershon; therefore they departed out of the land of
Antionum into the
wilderness, and took their journey round about in the
wilderness, away by the
head of the river Sidon, that they might come into the
land of Manti and take
possession of the land; for they did not suppose that
the armies of Moroni
would know whither they had gone.

ALM 43:23 But it came to pass, as soon as
they had departed into the wilderness
Moroni sent spies into the wilderness to
watch their camp; and Moroni, also,
knowing of the prophecies of Alma, sent
certain men unto him, desiring him that
he should inquire of the Lord whither
the armies of the Nephites should go to
defend themselves against the
Lamanites.

ALM 43:24 And it came to pass that the word of the Lord came unto
Alma, and
Alma informed the messengers of Moroni, that the armies of the
Lamanites were
marching round about in the wilderness, that they might come
over into the land
of Manti, that they might commence an attack upon the weaker
part of the
people. And those messengers went and delivered the message unto
Moroni.

ALM 43:25 Now Moroni, leaving a part of his army in the land of
Jershon, lest
by any means a part of the Lamanites should come into that land
and take
possession of the city, took the remaining part of his army and
marched over
into the land of Manti.

ALM 43:26 And he caused that all the
people in that quarter of the land should
gather themselves together to battle
against the Lamanites, to defend their
lands and their country, their rights
and their liberties; therefore they were
prepared against the time of the
coming of the Lamanites.

ALM 43:27 And it came to pass that Moroni caused that
his army should be
secreted in the valley which was near the bank of the river
Sidon, which was on
the west of the river Sidon in the wilderness.

ALM 43:28
And Moroni placed spies round about, that he might know when the camp
of the
Lamanites should come.

ALM 43:29 And now, as Moroni knew the intention of the
Lamanites, that it was
their intention to destroy their brethren, or to subject
them and bring them
into bondage that they might establish a kingdom unto
themselves over all the
land;

ALM 43:30 And he also knowing that it was the
only desire of the Nephites to
preserve their lands, and their liberty, and
their church, therefore he thought
it no sin that he should defend them by
stratagem; therefore, he found by his
spies which course the Lamanites were to
take.

ALM 43:31 Therefore, he divided his army and brought a part over into
the
valley, and concealed them on the east, and on the south of the hill
Riplah;

ALM 43:32 And the remainder he concealed in the west valley, on the
west of the
river Sidon, and so down into the borders of the land Manti.

ALM
43:33 And thus having placed his army according to his desire, he was
prepared
to meet them.

ALM 43:34 And it came to pass that the Lamanites came up on the
north of the
hill, where a part of the army of Moroni was concealed.

ALM 43:35
And as the Lamanites had passed the hill Riplah, and came into the
valley, and
began to cross the river Sidon, the army which was concealed on the
south of
the hill, which was led by a man whose name was Lehi, and he led his
army forth
and encircled the Lamanites about on the east in their rear.

ALM 43:36 And it
came to pass that the Lamanites, when they saw the Nephites
coming upon them in
their rear, turned them about and began to contend with the
army of Lehi.

ALM
43:37 And the work of death commenced on both sides, but it was more
dreadful
on the part of the Lamanites, for their nakedness was exposed to the
heavy
blows of the Nephites with their swords and their cimeters, which brought
death
almost at every stroke.

ALM 43:38 While on the other hand, there was now and
then a man fell among the
Nephites, by their swords and the loss of blood, they
being shielded from the
more vital parts of the body, or the more vital parts
of the body being
shielded from the strokes of the Lamanites, by their
breastplates, and their
armshields, and their head-plates; and thus the
Nephites did carry on the work
of death among the Lamanites.

ALM 43:39 And it
came to pass that the Lamanites became frightened, because of
the great
destruction among them, even until they began to flee towards the
river Sidon.

ALM 43:40 And they were pursued by Lehi and his men; and they were driven by

Lehi into the waters of Sidon, and they crossed the waters of Sidon. And Lehi

retained his armies upon the bank of the river Sidon that they should not

cross.

ALM 43:41 And it came to pass that Moroni and his army met the
Lamanites in the
valley, on the other side of the river Sidon, and began to
fall upon them and
to slay them.

ALM 43:42 And the Lamanites did flee again
before them, towards the land of
Manti; and they were met again by the armies
of Moroni.

ALM 43:43 Now in this case the Lamanites did fight exceedingly;
yea, never had
the Lamanites been known to fight with such exceedingly great
strength and
courage, no, not even from the beginning.

ALM 43:44 And they were
inspired by the Zoramites and the Amalekites, who were
their chief captains and
leaders, and by Zerahemnah, who was their chief
captain, or their chief leader
and commander; yea, they did fight like dragons,
and many of the Nephites were
slain by their hands, yea, for they did smite in
two many of their head-plates,
and they did pierce many of their breastplates,
and they did smite off many of
their arms; and thus the Lamanites did smite in
their fierce anger.

ALM 43:45
Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they
were not
fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes
and
their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for
their
rites of worship and their church.

ALM 43:46 And they were doing that which
they felt was the duty which they owed
to their God; for the Lord had said unto
them, and also unto their fathers,
that: Inasmuch as ye are not guilty of the
first offense, neither the second,
ye shall not suffer yourselves to be slain
by the hands of your enemies.

ALM 43:47 And again, the Lord has said that: Ye
shall defend your families even
unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were
the Nephites contending with the
Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their
families, and their lands, their
country, and their rights, and their
religion.

ALM 43:48 And it came to pass that when the men of Moroni saw the
fierceness
and the anger of the Lamanites, they were about to shrink and flee
from them.
And Moroni, perceiving their intent, sent forth and inspired their
hearts with
these thoughts--yea, the thoughts of their lands, their liberty,
yea, their
freedom from bondage.

ALM 43:49 And it came to pass that they
turned upon the Lamanites, and they
cried with one voice unto the Lord their
God, for their liberty and their
freedom from bondage.

ALM 43:50 And they
began to stand against the Lamanites with power; and in that
selfsame hour that
they cried unto the Lord for their freedom, the Lamanites
began to flee before
them; and they fled even to the waters of Sidon.

ALM 43:51 Now, the Lamanites
were more numerous, yea, by more than double the
number of the Nephites;
nevertheless, they were driven insomuch that they were
gathered together in one
body in the valley, upon the bank by the river Sidon.

ALM 43:52 Therefore the
armies of Moroni encircled them about, yea, even on
both sides of the river,
for behold, on the east were the men of Lehi.

ALM 43:53 Therefore when
Zerahemnah saw the men of Lehi on the east of the
river Sidon, and the armies
of Moroni on the west of the river Sidon, that they
were encircled about by the
Nephites, they were struck with terror.

ALM 43:54 Now Moroni, when he saw
their terror, commanded his men that they
should stop shedding their blood.


ALM 44:0 Moroni's magnanimity--Zerahemnah rejects his peace offer, but is

compelled to accept terms--Lamanites make covenant of peach--End of Alma's

record.

ALM 44:1 And it came to pass that they did stop and withdrew a pace
from them.
And Moroni said unto Zerahemnah: Behold, Zerahemnah, that we do not
desire to
be men of blood. Ye know that ye are in our hands, yet we do not
desire to slay
you.

ALM 44:2 Behold, we have not come out to battle against
you that we might shed
your blood for power; neither do we desire to bring any
one to the yoke of
bondage. But this is the very cause for which ye have come
against us; yea, and
ye are angry with us because of our religion.

ALM 44:3
But now, ye behold that the Lord is with us; and ye behold that he has

delivered you into our hands. And now I would that ye should understand that

this is done unto us because of our religion and our faith in Christ. And now

ye see that ye cannot destroy this our faith.

ALM 44:4 Now ye see that this is
the true faith of God; yea, ye see that God
will support, and keep, and
preserve us, so long as we are faithful unto him,
and unto our faith, and our
religion; and never will the Lord suffer that we
shall be destroyed except we
should fall into transgression and deny our faith.

ALM 44:5 And now,
Zerahemnah, I command you, in the name of that all-powerful
God, who has
strengthened our arms that we have gained power over you, by our
faith, by our
religion, and by our rites of worship, and by our church, and by
the sacred
support which we owe to our wives and our children, by that liberty
which binds
us to our lands and our country; yea, and also by the maintenance
of the sacred
word of God, to which we owe all our happiness; and by all that
is most dear
unto us--

ALM 44:6 Yea, and this is not all; I command you by all the desires
which ye
have for life, that ye deliver up your weapons of war unto us, and we
will seek
not your blood, but we will spare your lives, if ye will go your way
and come
not again to war against us.

ALM 44:7 And now, if ye do not this,
behold, ye are in our hands, and I will
command my men that they shall fall
upon you, and inflict the wounds of death
in your bodies, that ye may become
extinct; and then we will see who shall have
power over this people; yea, we
will see who shall be brought into bondage.

ALM 44:8 And now it came to pass
that when Zerahemnah had heard these sayings
he came forth and delivered up his
sword and his cimeter, and his bow into the
hands of Moroni, and said unto him:
Behold, here are our weapons of war; we
will deliver them up unto you, but we
will not suffer ourselves to take an oath
unto you, which we know that we shall
break, and also our children; but take
our weapons of war, and suffer that we
may depart into the wilderness;
otherwise we will retain our swords, and we
will perish or conquer.

ALM 44:9 Behold, we are not of your faith; we do not
believe that it is God
that has delivered us into your hands; but we believe
that it is your cunning
that has preserved you from our swords. Behold, it is
your breastplates and
your shields that have preserved you.

ALM 44:10 And now
when Zerahemnah had made an end of speaking these words,
Moroni returned the
sword and the weapons of war, which he had received, unto
Zerahemnah, saying:
Behold, we will end the conflict.

ALM 44:11 Now I cannot recall the words
which I have spoken, therefore as the
Lord liveth, ye shall not depart except
ye depart with an oath that ye will not
return again against us to war. Now as
ye are in our hands we will spill your
blood upon the ground, or ye shall
submit to the conditions which I have
proposed.

ALM 44:12 And now when Moroni
had said these words, Zerahemnah retained his
sword, and he was angry with
Moroni, and he rushed forward that he might slay
Moroni; but as he raised his
sword, behold, one of Moroni's soldiers smote it
even to the earth, and it
broke by the hilt; and he also smote Zerahemnah that
he took off his scalp and
it fell to the earth. And Zerahemnah withdrew from
before them into the midst
of his soldiers.

ALM 44:13 And it came to pass that the soldier who stood by,
who smote off the
scalp of Zerahemnah, took up the scalp from off the ground by
the hair, and
laid it upon the point of his sword, and stretched it forth unto
them, saying
unto them with a loud voice:

ALM 44:14 Even as this scalp has
fallen to the earth, which is the scalp of
your chief, so shall ye fall to the
earth except ye will deliver up your
weapons of war and depart with a covenant
of peace.

ALM 44:15 Now there were many, when they heard these words and saw
the scalp
which was upon the sword, that were struck with fear; and many came
forth and
threw down their weapons of war at the feet of Moroni, and entered
into a
covenant of peace. And as many as entered into a covenant they suffered
to
depart into the wilderness.

ALM 44:16 Now it came to pass that Zerahemnah
was exceedingly wroth, and he did
stir up the remainder of his soldiers to
anger, to contend more powerfully
against the Nephites.

ALM 44:17 And now
Moroni was angry, because of the stubbornness of the
Lamanites; therefore he
commanded his people that they should fall upon them
and slay them. And it came
to pass that they began to slay them; yea, and the
Lamanites did contend with
their swords and their might.

ALM 44:18 But behold, their naked skins and
their bare heads were exposed to
the sharp swords of the Nephites; yea, behold
they were pierced and smitten,
yea, and did fall exceedingly fast before the
swords of the Nephites; and they
began to be swept down, even as the soldier of
Moroni had prophesied.

ALM 44:19 Now Zerahemnah, when he saw that they were
all about to be destroyed,
cried mightily unto Moroni, promising that he would
covenant and also his
people with them, if they would spare the remainder of
their lives, that they
never would come to war again against them.

ALM 44:20
And it came to pass that Moroni caused that the work of death should
cease
again among the people. And he took the weapons of war from the
Lamanites; and
after they had entered into a covenant with him of peace they
were suffered to
depart into the wilderness.

ALM 44:21 Now the number of their dead was not
numbered because of the
greatness of the number; yea, the number of their dead
was exceedingly great,
both on the Nephites and on the Lamanites.

ALM 44:22
And it came to pass that they did cast their dead into the waters of
Sidon, and
they have gone forth and are buried in the depths of the sea.

ALM 44:23 And
the armies of the Nephites, or of Moroni, returned and came to
their houses and
their lands.

ALM 44:24 And thus ended the eighteenth year of the reign of the
judges over
the people of Nephi. And thus ended the record of Alma, which was
written upon
the plates of Nephi.

ALM 45:00 The account of the people of
Nephi, and their wars and dissensions,
in the days of Helaman, according to the
record of Helaman, which he kept in
his days. Comprising chapters 45 to 62
inclusive.

ALM 45:0 Nephite extinction again foretold--Alma's departure
compared to that
of Moses--Dissension in the church.

ALM 45:1 Behold, now it
came to pass that the people of Nephi were exceedingly
rejoiced, because the
Lord had again delivered them out of the hands of their
enemies; therefore they
gave thanks unto the Lord their God; yea, and they did
fast much and pray much,
and they did worship God with exceedingly great joy.

ALM 45:2 And it came to
pass in the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges
over the people of
Nephi, that Alma came unto his son Helaman and said unto
him: Believest thou
the words which I spake unto thee concerning those records
which have been
kept?

ALM 45:3 And Helaman said unto him: Yea, I believe.

ALM 45:4 And Alma
said again: Believest thou in Jesus Christ, who shall come?

ALM 45:5 And he
said: Yea, I believe all the words which thou hast spoken.

ALM 45:6 And Alma
said unto him again: Will ye keep my commandments?

ALM 45:7 And he said: Yea,
I will keep thy commandments with all my heart.

ALM 45:8 Then Alma said unto
him: Blessed art thou; and the Lord shall prosper
thee in this land.

ALM 45:9
But behold, I have somewhat to prophesy unto thee; but what I prophesy
unto
thee ye shall not make known; yea, what I prophesy unto thee shall not be
made
known, even until the prophecy is fulfilled; therefore write the words
which I
shall say.

ALM 45:10 And these are the words: Behold, I perceive that this
very people,
the Nephites, according to the spirit of revelation which is in
me, in four
hundred years from the time that Jesus Christ shall manifest
himself unto them,
shall dwindle in unbelief.

ALM 45:11 Yea, and then shall
they see wars and pestilences, yea, famines and
bloodshed, even until the
people of Nephi shall become extinct--

ALM 45:12 Yea, and this because they
shall dwindle in unbelief and fall into
the works of darkness, and
lasciviousness, and all manner of iniquities; yea, I
say unto you, that because
they shall sin against so great light and knowledge,
yea, I say unto you, that
from that day, even the fourth generation shall not
all pass away before this
great iniquity shall come.

ALM 45:13 And when that great day cometh, behold,
the time very soon cometh
that those who are now, or the seed of those who are
now numbered among the
people of Nephi, shall no more be numbered among the
people of Nephi.

ALM 45:14 But whosoever remaineth, and is not destroyed in
that great and
dreadful day, shall be numbered among the Lamanites, and shall
become like unto
them, all, save it be a few who shall be called the disciples
of the Lord; and
them shall the Lamanites pursue even until they shall become
extinct. And now,
because of iniquity, this prophecy shall be fulfilled.

ALM
45:15 And now it came to pass that after Alma had said these things to
Helaman,
he blessed him, and also his other sons; and he also blessed the earth
for the
righteous' sake.

ALM 45:16 And he said: Thus saith the Lord God--Cursed shall
be the land, yea,
this land, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people,
unto destruction,
which do wickedly, when they are fully ripe; and as I have
said so shall it be;
for this is the cursing and the blessing of God upon the
land, for the Lord
cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance.


ALM 45:17 And now, when Alma had said these words he blessed the church, yea,

all those who should stand fast in the faith from that time henceforth.

ALM
45:18 And when Alma had done this he departed out of the land of Zarahemla,
as
if to go into the land of Melek. And it came to pass that he was never heard
of
more; as to his death or burial we know not of.

ALM 45:19 Behold, this we
know, that he was a righteous man; and the saying
went abroad in the church
that he was taken up by the Spirit, or buried by the
hand of the Lord, even as
Moses. But behold, the scriptures saith the Lord took
Moses unto himself; and
we suppose that he has also received Alma in the
spirit, unto himself;
therefore, for this cause we know nothing concerning his
death and burial.

ALM
45:20 And now it came to pass in the commencement of the nineteenth year of
the
reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, that Helaman went forth among
the
people to declare the word unto them.

ALM 45:21 For behold, because of their
wars with the Lamanites and the many
little dissensions and disturbances which
had been among the people, it became
expedient that the word of God should be
declared among them, yea, and that a
regulation should be made throughout the
church.

ALM 45:22 Therefore, Helaman and his brethren went forth to establish
the
church again in all the land, yea, in every city throughout all the land
which
was possessed by the people of Nephi. And it came to pass that they did
appoint
priests and teachers throughout all the land, over all the churches.


ALM 45:23 And now it came to pass that after Helaman and his brethren had

appointed priests and teachers over the churches that there arose a dissension

among them, and they would not give heed to the words of Helaman and his

brethren;

ALM 45:24 But they grew proud, being lifted up in their hearts,
because of
their exceedingly great riches; therefore they grew rich in their
own eyes, and
would not give heed to their words, to walk uprightly before
God.

ALM 46:0 Amalickiah conspires to be king--Moroni and the title of
liberty--The
people covenant to maintain freedom--flight of Amalickiah.

ALM
46:1 And it came to pass that as many as would not hearken to the words of

Helaman and his brethren were gathered together against their brethren.

ALM
46:2 And now behold, they were exceedingly wroth, insomuch that they were

determined to slay them.

ALM 46:3 Now the leader of those who were wroth
against their brethren was a
large and a strong man; and his name was
Amalickiah.

ALM 46:4 And Amalickiah was desirous to be a king; and those
people who were
wroth were also desirous that he should be their king; and they
were the
greater part of them the lower judges of the land, and they were
seeking for
power.

ALM 46:5 And they had been led by the flatteries of
Amalickiah, that if they
would support him and establish him to be their king
that he would make them
rulers over the people.

ALM 46:6 Thus they were led
away by Amalickiah to dissensions, notwithstanding
the preaching of Helaman and
his brethren, yea, notwithstanding their
exceedingly great care over the
church, for they were high priests over the
church.

ALM 46:7 And there were
many in the church who believed in the flattering words
of Amalickiah,
therefore they dissented even from the church; and thus were the
affairs of the
people of Nephi exceedingly precarious and dangerous,
notwithstanding their
great victory which they had had over the Lamanites, and
their great rejoicings
which they had had because of their deliverance by the
hand of the Lord.

ALM
46:8 Thus we see how quick the children of men do forget the Lord their
God,
yea, how quick to do iniquity, and to be led away by the evil one.

ALM 46:9
Yea, and we also see the great wickedness one very wicked man can
cause to take
place among the children of men.

ALM 46:10 Yea, we see that Amalickiah,
because he was a man of cunning device
and a man of many flattering words, that
he led away the hearts of many people
to do wickedly; yea, and to seek to
destroy the church of God, and to destroy
the foundation of liberty which God
had granted unto them, or which blessing
God had sent upon the face of the land
for the righteous' sake.

ALM 46:11 And now it came to pass that when Moroni,
who was the chief commander
of the armies of the Nephites, had heard of these
dissensions, he was angry
with Amalickiah.

ALM 46:12 And it came to pass that
he rent his coat; and he took a piece
thereof, and wrote upon it--In memory of
our God, our religion, and freedom,
and our peace, our wives, and our
children--and he fastened it upon the end of
a pole.

ALM 46:13 And he fastened
on his head-plate, and his breastplate, and his
shields, and girded on his
armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which
had on the end thereof his
rent coat, (and he called it the title of liberty)
and he bowed himself to the
earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the
blessings of liberty to rest
upon his brethren, so long as there should a band
of Christians remain to
possess the land--

ALM 46:14 For thus were all the true believers of Christ,
who belonged to the
church of God, called by those who did not belong to the
church.

ALM 46:15 And those who did belong to the church were faithful; yea,
all those
who were true believers in Christ took upon them, gladly, the name of
Christ,
or Christians as they were called, because of their belief in Christ
who should
come.

ALM 46:16 And therefore, at this time, Moroni prayed that the
cause of the
Christians, and the freedom of the land might be favored.

ALM
46:17 And it came to pass that when he had poured out his soul to God, he
named
all the land which was south of the land Desolation, yea, and in fine,
all the
land, both on the north and on the south--A chosen land, and the land
of
liberty.

ALM 46:18 And he said: Surely God shall not suffer that we, who are
despised
because we take upon us the name of Christ, shall be trodden down and

destroyed, until we bring it upon us by our own transgressions.

ALM 46:19 And
when Moroni had said these words, he went forth among the people,
waving the
rent part of his garment in the air, that all might see the writing
which he
had written upon the rent part, and crying with a loud voice, saying:

ALM
46:20 Behold, whosoever will maintain this title upon the land, let them
come
forth in the strength of the Lord, and enter into a covenant that they
will
maintain their rights, and their religion, that the Lord God may bless
them.


ALM 46:21 And it came to pass that when Moroni had proclaimed these words,

behold, the people came running together with their armor girded about their

loins, rending their garments in token, or as a covenant, that they would not

forsake the Lord their God; or, in other words, if they should transgress the

commandments of God, or fall into transgression, and be ashamed to take upon

them the name of Christ, the Lord should rend them even as they had rent their

garments.

ALM 46:22 Now this was the covenant which they made, and they cast
their
garments at the feet of Moroni, saying: We covenant with our God, that we
shall
be destroyed, even as our brethren in the land northward, if we shall
fall into
transgression; yea, he may cast us at the feet of our enemies, even
as we have
cast our garments at thy feet to be trodden under foot, if we shall
fall into
transgression.

ALM 46:23 Moroni said unto them: Behold, we are a
remnant of the seed of Jacob;
yea, we are a remnant of the seed of Joseph,
whose coat was rent by his
brethren into many pieces; yea, and now behold, let
us remember to keep the
commandments of God, or our garments shall be rent by
our brethren, and we be
cast into prison, or be sold, or be slain.

ALM 46:24
Yea, let us preserve our liberty as a remnant of Joseph; yea, let us
remember
the words of Jacob, before his death, for behold, he saw that a part
of the
remnant of the coat of Joseph was preserved and had not decayed. And he
said--
Even as this remnant of garment of my son hath been preserved, so shall a

remnant of the seed of my son be preserved by the hand of God, and be taken

unto himself, while the remainder of the seed of Joseph shall perish, even as

the remnant of his garment.

ALM 46:25 Now behold, this giveth my soul sorrow;
nevertheless, my soul hath
joy in my son, because of that part of his seed
which shall be taken unto God.

ALM 46:26 Now behold, this was the language of
Jacob.

ALM 46:27 And now who knoweth but what the remnant of the seed of
Joseph, which
shall perish as his garment, are those who have dissented from
us? Yea, and
even it shall be ourselves if we do not stand fast in the faith of
Christ.

ALM 46:28 And now it came to pass that when Moroni had said these
words he went
forth, and also sent forth in all the parts of the land where
there were
dissensions, and gathered together all the people who were desirous
to maintain
their liberty, to stand against Amalickiah and those who had
dissented, who
were called Amalickiahites.

ALM 46:29 And it came to pass that
when Amalickiah saw that the people of
Moroni were more numerous than the
Amalickiahites--and he also saw that his
people were doubtful concerning the
justice of the cause in which they had
undertaken--therefore, fearing that he
should not gain the point, he took those
of his people who would and departed
into the land of Nephi.

ALM 46:30 Now Moroni thought it was not expedient that
the Lamanites should
have any more strength; therefore he thought to cut off
the people of
Amalickiah, or to take them and bring them back, and put
Amalickiah to death;
yea, for he knew that he would stir up the Lamanites to
anger against them, and
cause them to come to battle against them; and this he
knew that Amalickiah
would do that he might obtain his purposes.

ALM 46:31
Therefore Moroni thought it was expedient that he should take his
armies, who
had gathered themselves together, and armed themselves, and entered
into a
covenant to keep the peace--and it came to pass that he took his army
and
marched out with his tents into the wilderness, to cut off the course of

Amalickiah in the wilderness.

ALM 46:32 And it came to pass that he did
according to his desires, and marched
forth into the wilderness, and headed the
armies of Amalickiah.

ALM 46:33 And it came to pass that Amalickiah fled with
a small number of his
men, and the remainder were delivered up into the hands
of Moroni and were
taken back into the land of Zarahemla.

ALM 46:34 Now,
Moroni being a man who was appointed by the chief judges and the
voice of the
people, therefore he had power according to his will with the
armies of the
Nephites, to establish and to exercise authority over them.

ALM 46:35 And it
came to pass that whomsoever of the Amalickiahites that would
not enter into a
covenant to support the cause of freedom, that they might
maintain a free
government, he caused to be put to death; and there were but
few who denied the
covenant of freedom.

ALM 46:36 And it came to pass also, that he caused the
title of liberty to be
hoisted upon every tower which was in all the land,
which was possessed by the
Nephites; and thus Moroni planted the standard of
liberty among the Nephites.

ALM 46:37 And they began to have peace again in
the land; and thus they did
maintain peace in the land until nearly the end of
the nineteenth year of the
reign of the judges.

ALM 46:38 And Helaman and the
high priests did also maintain order in the
church; yea, even for the space of
four years did they have much peace and
rejoicing in the church.

ALM 46:39 And
it came to pass that there were many who died, firmly believing
that their
souls were redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ; thus they went out of
the world
rejoicing.

ALM 46:40 And there were some who died with fevers, which at some
seasons of
the year were very frequent in the land--but not so much so with
fevers,
because of the excellent qualities of the many plants and roots which
God had
prepared to remove the cause of diseases, to which men were subject by
the
nature of the climate--

ALM 46:41 But there were many who died with old
age; and those who died in the
faith of Christ are happy in him, as we must
needs suppose.

ALM 47:0 Amalickiah, by treachery, becomes king of the
Lamanites--His awful
wickedness.

ALM 47:1 Now we will return in our record to
Amalickiah and those who had fled
with him into the wilderness; for, behold, he
had taken those who went with
him, and went up in the land of Nephi among the
Lamanites, and did stir up the
Lamanites to anger against the people of Nephi,
insomuch that the king of the
Lamanites sent a proclamation throughout all his
land, among all his people,
that they should gather themselves together again
to go to battle against the
Nephites.

ALM 47:2 And it came to pass that when
the proclamation had gone forth among
them they were exceedingly afraid; yea,
they feared to displease the king, and
they also feared to go to battle against
the Nephites lest they should lose
their lives. And it came to pass that they
would not, or the more part of them
would not, obey the commandments of the
king.

ALM 47:3 And now it came to pass that the king was wroth because of
their
disobedience; therefore he gave Amalickiah the command of that part of
his army
which was obedient unto his commands, and commanded him that he should
go forth
and compel them to arms.

ALM 47:4 Now behold, this was the desire of
Amalickiah; for he being a very
subtle man to do evil therefore he laid the
plan in his heart to dethrone the
king of the Lamanites.

ALM 47:5 And now he
had got the command of those parts of the Lamanites who
were in favor of the
king; and he sought to gain favor of those who were not
obedient; therefore he
went forward to the place which was called Onidah, for
thither had all the
Lamanites fled; for they discovered the army coming, and,
supposing that they
were coming to destroy them, therefore they fled to Onidah,
to the place of
arms.

ALM 47:6 And they had appointed a man to be a king and a leader over
them,
being fixed in their minds with a determined resolution that they would
not be
subjected to go against the Nephites.

ALM 47:7 And it came to pass that
they had gathered themselves together upon
the top of the mount which was
called Antipas, in preparation to battle.

ALM 47:8 Now it was not Amalickiah's
intention to give them battle according to
the commandments of the king; but
behold, it was his intention to gain favor
with the armies of the Lamanites,
that he might place himself at their head and
dethrone the king and take
possession of the kingdom.

ALM 47:9 And behold, it came to pass that he caused
his army to pitch their
tents in the valley which was near the mount Antipas.


ALM 47:10 And it came to pass that when it was night he sent a secret embassy

into the mount Antipas, desiring that the leader of those who were upon the

mount, whose name was Lehonti, that he should come down to the foot of the

mount, for he desired to speak with him.

ALM 47:11 And it came to pass that
when Lehonti received the message he durst
not go down to the foot of the
mount. And it came to pass that Amalickiah sent
again the second time, desiring
him to come down. And it came to pass that
Lehonti would not; and he sent again
the third time.

ALM 47:12 And it came to pass that when Amalickiah found that
he could not get
Lehonti to come down off from the mount, he went up into the
mount, nearly to
Lehonti's camp; and he sent again the fourth time his message
unto Lehonti,
desiring that he would come down, and that he would bring his
guards with him.

ALM 47:13 And it came to pass that when Lehonti had come down
with his guards
to Amalickiah, that Amalickiah desired him to come down with
his army in the
night-time, and surround those men in their camps over whom the
king had given
him command, and that he would deliver them up into Lehonti's
hands, if he
would make him (Amalickiah) a second leader over the whole army.


ALM 47:14 And it came to pass that Lehonti came down with his men and

surrounded the men of Amalickiah, so that before they awoke at the dawn of day

they were surrounded by the armies of Lehonti.

ALM 47:15 And it came to pass
that when they saw that they were surrounded,
they plead with Amalickiah that
he would suffer them to fall in with their
brethren, that they might not be
destroyed. Now this was the very thing which
Amalickiah desired.

ALM 47:16 And
it came to pass that he delivered his men, contrary to the
commands of the
king. Now this was the thing that Amalickiah desired, that he
might accomplish
his designs in dethroning the king.

ALM 47:17 Now it was the custom among the
Lamanites, if their chief leader was
killed, to appoint the second leader to be
their chief leader.

ALM 47:18 And it came to pass that Amalickiah caused that
one of his servants
should administer poison by degrees to Lehonti, that he
died.

ALM 47:19 Now, when Lehonti was dead, the Lamanites appointed Amalickiah
to be
their leader and their chief commander.

ALM 47:20 And it came to pass
that Amalickiah marched with his armies (for he
had gained his desires) to the
land of Nephi, to the city of Nephi, which was
the chief city.

ALM 47:21 And
the king came out to meet him with his guards, for he supposed
that Amalickiah
had fulfilled his commands, and that Amalickiah had gathered
together so great
an army to go against the Nephites to battle.

ALM 47:22 But behold, as the
king came out to meet him Amalickiah caused that
his servants should go forth
to meet the king. And they went and bowed
themselves before the king, as if to
reverence him because of his greatness.

ALM 47:23 And it came to pass that the
king put forth his hand to raise them,
as was the custom with the Lamanites, as
a token of peace, which custom they
had taken from the Nephites.

ALM 47:24 And
it came to pass that when he had raised the first from the
ground, behold he
stabbed the king to the heart; and he fell to the earth.

ALM 47:25 Now the
servants of the king fled; and the servants of Amalickiah
raised a cry,
saying:

ALM 47:26 Behold, the servants of the king have stabbed him to the
heart, and
he has fallen and they have fled; behold, come and see.

ALM 47:27
And it came to pass that Amalickiah commanded that his armies should
march
forth and see what had happened to the king; and when they had come to
the
spot, and found the king lying in his gore, Amalickiah pretended to be
wroth,
and said: Whosoever loved the king, let him go forth, and pursue his
servants
that they may be slain.

ALM 47:28 And it came to pass that all they who loved
the king, when they heard
these words, came forth and pursued after the
servants of the king.

ALM 47:29 Now when the servants of the king saw an army
pursuing after them,
they were frightened again, and fled into the wilderness,
and came over into
the land of Zarahemla and joined the people of Ammon.

ALM
47:30 And the army which pursued after them returned, having pursued after
them
in vain; and thus Amalickiah, by his fraud, gained the hearts of the
people.


ALM 47:31 And it came to pass on the morrow he entered the city Nephi with his

armies, and took possession of the city.

ALM 47:32 And now it came to pass
that the queen, when she had heard that the
king was slain--for Amalickiah had
sent an embassy to the queen informing her
that the king had been slain by his
servants, that he had pursued them with his
army, but it was in vain, and they
had made their escape--

ALM 47:33 Therefore, when the queen had received this
message she sent unto
Amalickiah, desiring him that he would spare the people
of the city; and she
also desired him that he should come in unto her; and she
also desired him that
he should bring witnesses with him to testify concerning
the death of the king.

ALM 47:34 And it came to pass that Amalickiah took the
same servant that slew
the king, and all them who were with him, and went in
unto the queen, unto the
place where she sat; and they all testified unto her
that the king was slain by
his own servants; and they said also: They have
fled; does not this testify
against them? And thus they satisfied the queen
concerning the death of the
king.

ALM 47:35 And it came to pass that
Amalickiah sought the favor of the queen,
and took her unto him to wife; and
thus by his fraud, and by the assistance of
his cunning servants, he obtained
the kingdom; yea, he was acknowledged king
throughout all the land, among all
the people of the Lamanites, who were
composed of the Lamanites and the
Lemuelites and the Ishmaelites, and all the
dissenters of the Nephites, from
the reign of Nephi down to the present time.

ALM 47:36 Now these dissenters,
having the same instruction and the same
information of the Nephites, yea,
having been instructed in the same knowledge
of the Lord, nevertheless, it is
strange to relate, not long after their
dissensions they became more hardened
and impenitent, and more wild, wicked and
ferocious than the Lamanites--
drinking in with the traditions of the Lamanites;
giving way to indolence, and
all manner of lasciviousness; yea, entirely
forgetting the Lord their God.

ALM
48:0 Amalickiah incites the Lamanites against Nephites--Moroni prepares for
the
conflict--A true patriot and a mighty man of God.

ALM 48:1 And now it came to
pass that, as soon as Amalickiah had obtained the
kingdom he began to inspire
the hearts of the Lamanites against the people of
Nephi; yea, he did appoint
men to speak unto the Lamanites from their towers,
against the Nephites.

ALM
48:2 And thus he did inspire their hearts against the Nephites, insomuch
that
in the latter end of the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges, he
having
accomplished his designs thus far, yea, having been made king over the

Lamanites, he sought also to reign over all the land, yea, and all the people

who were in the land, the Nephites as well as the Lamanites.

ALM 48:3
Therefore he had accomplished his design, for he had hardened the
hearts of the
Lamanites and blinded their minds, and stirred them up to anger,
insomuch that
he had gathered together a numerous host to go to battle against
the Nephites.

ALM 48:4 For he was determined, because of the greatness of the number of his

people, to overpower the Nephites and to bring them into bondage.

ALM 48:5 And
thus he did appoint chief captains of the Zoramites, they being
the most
acquainted with the strength of the Nephites, and their places of
resort, and
the weakest parts of their cities; therefore he appointed them to
be chief
captains over his armies.

ALM 48:6 And it came to pass that they took their
camp, and moved forth toward
the land of Zarahemla in the wilderness.

ALM 48:7
Now it came to pass that while Amalickiah had thus been obtaining
power by
fraud and deceit, Moroni, on the other hand, had been preparing the
minds of
the people to be faithful unto the Lord their God.

ALM 48:8 Yea, he had been
strengthening the armies of the Nephites, and
erecting small forts, or places
of resort; throwing up banks of earth round
about to enclose his armies, and
also building walls of stone to encircle them
about, round about their cities
and the borders of their lands; yea, all round
about the land.

ALM 48:9 And in
their weakest fortifications he did place the greater number of
men; and thus
he did fortify and strengthen the land which was possessed by the
Nephites.


ALM 48:10 And thus he was preparing to support their liberty, their lands,

their wives, and their children, and their peace, and that they might live
unto
the Lord their God, and that they might maintain that which was called by
their
enemies the cause of Christians.

ALM 48:11 And Moroni was a strong and a
mighty man; he was a man of a perfect
understanding; yea, a man that did not
delight in bloodshed; a man whose soul
did joy in the liberty and the freedom
of his country, and his brethren from
bondage and slavery;

ALM 48:12 Yea, a
man whose heart did swell with thanksgiving to his God, for
the many privileges
and blessings which he bestowed upon his people; a man who
did labor
exceedingly for the welfare and safety of his people.

ALM 48:13 Yea, and he
was a man who was firm in the faith of Christ, and he had
sworn with an oath to
defend his people, his rights, and his country, and his
religion, even to the
loss of his blood.

ALM 48:14 Now the Nephites were taught to defend themselves
against their
enemies, even to the shedding of blood if it were necessary; yea,
and they were
also taught never to give an offense, yea, and never to raise the
sword except
it were against an enemy, except it were to preserve their lives.

ALM 48:15 And this was their faith, that by so doing God would prosper them in

the land, or in other words, if they were faithful in keeping the commandments

of God that he would prosper them in the land; yea, warn them to flee, or to

prepare for war, according to their danger;

ALM 48:16 And also, that God would
make it known unto them whither they should
go to defend themselves against
their enemies, and by so doing, the Lord would
deliver them; and this was the
faith of Moroni, and his heart did glory in it;
not in the shedding of blood
but in doing good, in preserving his people, yea,
in keeping the commandments
of God, yea, and resisting iniquity.

ALM 48:17 Yea, verily, verily I say unto
you, if all men had been, and were,
and ever would be, like unto Moroni,
behold, the very powers of hell would have
been shaken forever; yea, the devil
would never have power over the hearts of
the children of men.

ALM 48:18
Behold, he was a man like unto Ammon, the son of Mosiah, yea, and
even the
other sons of Mosiah, yea, and also Alma and his sons, for they were
all men of
God.

ALM 48:19 Now behold, Helaman and his brethren were no less serviceable
unto
the people than was Moroni; for they did preach the word of God, and they
did
baptize unto repentance all men whosoever would hearken unto their words.


ALM 48:20 And thus they went forth, and the people did humble themselves

because of their words, insomuch that they were highly favored of the Lord,
and
thus they were free from wars and contentions among themselves, yea, even
for
the space of four years.

ALM 48:21 But, as I have said, in the latter end
of the nineteenth year, yea,
notwithstanding their peace amongst themselves,
they were compelled reluctantly
to contend with their brethren, the Lamanites.

ALM 48:22 Yea, and in fine, their wars never did cease for the space of many

years with the Lamanites, notwithstanding their much reluctance.

ALM 48:23
Now, they were sorry to take up arms against the Lamanites, because
they did
not delight in the shedding of blood; yea, and this was not all--they
were
sorry to be the means of sending so many of their brethren out of this
world
into an eternal world, unprepared to meet their God.

ALM 48:24 Nevertheless,
they could not suffer to lay down their lives, that
their wives and their
children should be massacred by the barbarous cruelty of
those who were once
their brethren, yea, and had dissented from their church,
and had left them and
had gone to destroy them by joining the Lamanites.

ALM 48:25 Yea, they could
not bear that their brethren should rejoice over the
blood of the Nephites, so
long as there were any who should keep the
commandments of God, for the promise
of the Lord was, if they should keep his
commandments they should prosper in
the land.

ALM 49:0 The invading Lamanites baffled and repulsed--Amalickiah's
wrath over
his failure--Prosperity of the church.

ALM 49:1 And now it came to
pass in the eleventh month of the nineteenth year,
on the tenth day of the
month, the armies of the Lamanites were seen
approaching towards the land of
Ammonihah.

ALM 49:2 And behold, the city had been rebuilt, and Moroni had
stationed an
army by the borders of the city, and they had cast up dirt round
about to
shield them from the arrows and the stones of the Lamanites; for
behold, they
fought with stones and with arrows.

ALM 49:3 Behold, I said that
the city of Ammonihah had been rebuilt. I say unto
you, yea, that it was in
part rebuilt; and because the Lamanites had destroyed
it once because of the
iniquity of the people, they supposed that it would
again become an easy prey
for them.

ALM 49:4 But behold, how great was their disappointment; for behold,
the
Nephites had dug up a ridge of earth round about them, which was so high
that
the Lamanites could not cast their stones and their arrows at them that
they
might take effect, neither could they come upon them save it was by their
place
of entrance.

ALM 49:5 Now at this time the chief captains of the
Lamanites were astonished
exceedingly, because of the wisdom of the Nephites in
preparing their places of
security.

ALM 49:6 Now the leaders of the Lamanites
had supposed, because of the
greatness of their numbers, yea, they supposed
that they should be privileged
to come upon them as they had hitherto done;
yea, and they had also prepared
themselves with shields, and with breastplates;
and they had also prepared
themselves with garments of skins, yea, very thick
garments to cover their
nakedness.

ALM 49:7 And being thus prepared they
supposed that they should easily
overpower and subject their brethren to the
yoke of bondage, or slay and
massacre them according to their pleasure.

ALM
49:8 But behold, to their uttermost astonishment, they were prepared for
them,
in a manner which never had been known among the children of Lehi. Now
they
were prepared for the Lamanites, to battle after the manner of the
instructions
of Moroni.

ALM 49:9 And it came to pass that the Lamanites, or the
Amalickiahites, were
exceedingly astonished at their manner of preparation for
war.

ALM 49:10 Now, if king Amalickiah had come down out of the land of Nephi,
at
the head of his army, perhaps he would have caused the Lamanites to have

attacked the Nephites at the city of Ammonihah; for behold, he did care not
for
the blood of his people.

ALM 49:11 But behold, Amalickiah did not come
down himself to battle. And
behold, his chief captains durst not attack the
Nephites at the city of
Ammonihah, for Moroni had altered the management of
affairs among the Nephites,
insomuch that the Lamanites were disappointed in
their places of retreat and
they could not come upon them.

ALM 49:12 Therefore
they retreated into the wilderness, and took their camp and
marched towards the
land of Noah, supposing that to be the next best place for
them to come against
the Nephites.

ALM 49:13 For they knew not that Moroni had fortified, or had
built forts of
security, for every city in all the land round about; therefore,
they marched
forward to the land of Noah with a firm determination; yea, their
chief
captains came forward and took an oath that they would destroy the people
of
that city.

ALM 49:14 But behold, to their astonishment, the city of Noah,
which had
hitherto been a weak place, had now, by the means of Moroni, become
strong,
yea, even to exceed the strength of the city Ammonihah.

ALM 49:15 And
now, behold, this was wisdom in Moroni; for he had supposed that
they would be
frightened at the city Ammonihah; and as the city of Noah had
hitherto been the
weakest part of the land, therefore they would march thither
to battle; and
thus it was according to his desires.

ALM 49:16 And behold, Moroni had
appointed Lehi to be chief captain over the
men of that city; and it was that
same Lehi who fought with the Lamanites in
the valley on the east of the river
Sidon.

ALM 49:17 And now behold it came to pass, that when the Lamanites had
found
that Lehi commanded the city they were again disappointed, for they
feared Lehi
exceedingly; nevertheless their chief captains had sworn with an
oath to attack
the city; therefore, they brought up their armies.

ALM 49:18
Now behold, the Lamanites could not get into their forts of security
by any
other way save by the entrance, because of the highness of the bank
which had
been thrown up, and the depth of the ditch which had been dug round
about, save
it were by the entrance.

ALM 49:19 And thus were the Nephites prepared to
destroy all such as should
attempt to climb up to enter the fort by any other
way, by casting over stones
and arrows at them.

ALM 49:20 Thus they were
prepared, yea, a body of their strongest men, with
their swords and their
slings, to smite down all who should attempt to come
into their place of
security by the place of entrance; and thus were they
prepared to defend
themselves against the Lamanites.

ALM 49:21 And it came to pass that the
captains of the Lamanites brought up
their armies before the place of entrance,
and began to contend with the
Nephites, to get into their place of security;
but behold, they were driven
back from time to time, insomuch that they were
slain with an immense
slaughter.

ALM 49:22 Now when they found that they could
not obtain power over the
Nephites by the pass, they began to dig down their
banks of earth that they
might obtain a pass to their armies, that they might
have an equal chance to
fight; but behold, in these attempts they were swept
off by the stones and
arrows which were thrown at them; and instead of filling
up their ditches by
pulling down the banks of earth, they were filled up in a
measure with their
dead and wounded bodies.

ALM 49:23 Thus the Nephites had
all power over their enemies; and thus the
Lamanites did attempt to destroy the
Nephites until their chief captains were
all slain; yea, and more than a
thousand of the Lamanites were slain; while, on
the other hand, there was not a
single soul of the Nephites which was slain.

ALM 49:24 There were about fifty
who were wounded, who had been exposed to the
arrows of the Lamanites through
the pass, but they were shielded by their
shields, and their breastplates, and
their head-plates, insomuch that their
wounds were upon their legs, many of
which were very severe.

ALM 49:25 And it came to pass, that when the Lamanites
saw that their chief
captains were all slain they fled into the wilderness. And
it came to pass that
they returned to the land of Nephi, to inform their king,
Amalickiah, who was a
Nephite by birth, concerning their great loss.

ALM 49:26
And it came to pass that he was exceedingly angry with his people,
because he
had not obtained his desire over the Nephites; he had not subjected
them to the
yoke of bondage.

ALM 49:27 Yea, he was exceedingly wroth, and he did curse
God, and also Moroni,
swearing with an oath that he would drink his blood; and
this because Moroni
had kept the commandments of God in preparing for the
safety of his people.

ALM 49:28 And it came to pass, that on the other hand,
the people of Nephi did
thank the Lord their God, because of his matchless
power in delivering them
from the hands of their enemies.

ALM 49:29 And thus
ended the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges over
the people of Nephi.

ALM 49:30 Yea, and there was continual peace among them, and exceedingly great

prosperity in the church because of their heed and diligence which they gave

unto the word of God, which was declared unto them by Helaman, and Shiblon,
and
Corianton, and Ammon and his brethren, yea, and by all those who had been

ordained by the holy order of God, being baptized unto repentance, and sent

forth to preach among the people.

ALM 50:0 Moroni fortifies the lime between
land of Zarahemla and land of
Nephi--Morianton plans to occupy the land
northward--he is killed by
Teancum--Pahoran succeeds Nephihah.

ALM 50:1 And
now it came to pass that Moroni did not stop making preparations
for war, or to
defend his people against the Lamanites; for he caused that his
armies should
commence in the commencement of the twentieth year of the reign
of the judges,
that they should commence in digging up heaps of earth round
about all the
cities, throughout all the land which was possessed by the
Nephites.

ALM 50:2
And upon the top of these ridges of earth he caused that there should
be
timbers, yea, works of timbers built up to the height of a man, round about
the
cities.

ALM 50:3 And he caused that upon those works of timbers there should
be a frame
of pickets built upon the timbers round about; and they were strong
and high.

ALM 50:4 And he caused towers to be erected that overlooked those
works of
pickets, and he caused places of security to be built upon those
towers, that
the stones and the arrows of the Lamanites could not hurt them.


ALM 50:5 And they were prepared that they could cast stones from the top

thereof, according to their pleasure and their strength, and slay him who

should attempt to approach near the walls of the city.

ALM 50:6 Thus Moroni
did prepare strongholds against the coming of their
enemies, round about every
city in all the land.

ALM 50:7 And it came to pass that Moroni caused that his
armies should go forth
into the east wilderness; yea, and they went forth and
drove all the Lamanites
who were in the east wilderness into their own lands,
which were south of the
land of Zarahemla.

ALM 50:8 And the land of Nephi did
run in a straight course from the east sea
to the west.

ALM 50:9 And it came
to pass that when Moroni had driven all the Lamanites out
of the east
wilderness, which was north of the lands of their own possessions,
he caused
that the inhabitants who were in the land of Zarahemla and in the
land round
about should go forth into the east wilderness, even to the borders
by the
seashore, and possess the land.

ALM 50:10 And he also placed armies on the
south, in the borders of their
possessions, and caused them to erect
fortifications that they might secure
their armies and their people from the
hands of their enemies.

ALM 50:11 And thus he cut off all the strongholds of
the Lamanites in the east
wilderness, yea, and also on the west, fortifying the
line between the Nephites
and the Lamanites, between the land of Zarahemla and
the land of Nephi, from
the west sea, running by the head of the river Sidon--
the Nephites possessing
all the land northward, yea, even all the land which
was northward of the land
Bountiful, according to their pleasure.

ALM 50:12
Thus Moroni, with his armies, which did increase daily because of the
assurance
of protection which his works did bring forth unto them, did seek to
cut off
the strength and the power of the Lamanites from off the lands of their

possessions, that they should have no power upon the lands of their
possession.

ALM 50:13 And it came to pass that the Nephites began the
foundation of a city,
and they called the name of the city Moroni; and it was
by the east sea; and it
was on the south by the line of the possessions of the
Lamanites.

ALM 50:14 And they also began a foundation for a city between the
city of
Moroni and the city of Aaron, joining the borders of Aaron and Moroni;
and they
called the name of the city, or the land, Nephihah.

ALM 50:15 And
they also began in that same year to build many cities on the
north, one in a
particular manner which they called Lehi, which was in the
north by the borders
of the seashore.

ALM 50:16 And thus ended the twentieth year.

ALM 50:17 And
in these prosperous circumstances were the people of Nephi in the
commencement
of the twenty and first year of the reign of the judges over the
people of
Nephi.

ALM 50:18 And they did prosper exceedingly, and they became exceedingly
rich;
yea, and they did multiply and wax strong in the land.

ALM 50:19 And
thus we see how merciful and just are all the dealings of the
Lord, to the
fulfilling of all his words unto the children of men; yea, we can
behold that
his words are verified, even at this time, which he spake unto
Lehi, saying:


ALM 50:20 Blessed art thou and thy children; and they shall be blessed,

inasmuch as they shall keep my commandments they shall prosper in the land.
But
remember, inasmuch as they will not keep my commandments they shall be cut
off
from the presence of the Lord.

ALM 50:21 And we see that these promises
have been verified to the people of
Nephi; for it has been their quarrelings
and their contentions, yea, their
murderings, and their plunderings, their
idolatry, their whoredoms, and their
abominations, which were among themselves,
which brought upon them their wars
and their destructions.

ALM 50:22 And those
who were faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord
were delivered at all
times, whilst thousands of their wicked brethren have
been consigned to
bondage, or to perish by the sword, or to dwindle in
unbelief, and mingle with
the Lamanites.

ALM 50:23 But behold there never was a happier time among the
people of Nephi,
since the days of Nephi, than in the days of Moroni, yea, even
at this time, in
the twenty and first year of the reign of the judges.

ALM
50:24 And it came to pass that the twenty and second year of the reign of
the
judges also ended in peace; yea, and also the twenty and third year.

ALM 50:25
And it came to pass that in the commencement of the twenty and fourth
year of
the reign of the judges, there would also have been peace among the
people of
Nephi had it not been for a contention which took place among them
concerning
the land of Lehi, and the land of Morianton, which joined upon the
borders of
Lehi; both of which were on the borders by the seashore.

ALM 50:26 For behold,
the people who possessed the land of Morianton did claim
a part of the land of
Lehi; therefore there began to be a warm contention
between them, insomuch that
the people of Morianton took up arms against their
brethren, and they were
determined by the sword to slay them.

ALM 50:27 But behold, the people who
possessed the land of Lehi fled to the
camp of Moroni, and appealed unto him
for assistance; for behold they were not
in the wrong.

ALM 50:28 And it came
to pass that when the people of Morianton, who were led
by a man whose name was
Morianton, found that the people of Lehi had fled to
the camp of Moroni, they
were exceedingly fearful lest the army of Moroni
should come upon them and
destroy them.

ALM 50:29 Therefore, Morianton put it into their hearts that
they should flee
to the land which was northward, which was covered with large
bodies of water,
and take possession of the land which was northward.

ALM
50:30 And behold, they would have carried this plan into effect, (which
would
have been a cause to have been lamented) but behold, Morianton being a
man of
much passion, therefore he was angry with one of his maid servants, and
he fell
upon her and beat her much.

ALM 50:31 And it came to pass that she fled, and
came over to the camp of
Moroni, and told Moroni all things concerning the
matter, and also concerning
their intentions to flee into the land northward.


ALM 50:32 Now behold, the people who were in the land Bountiful, or rather

Moroni, feared that they would hearken to the words of Morianton and unite
with
his people, and thus he would obtain possession of those parts of the
land,
which would lay a foundation for serious consequences among the people
of
Nephi, yea, which consequences would lead to the overthrow of their
liberty.

ALM 50:33 Therefore Moroni sent an army, with their camp, to head the
people of
Morianton, to stop their flight into the land northward.

ALM 50:34
And it came to pass that they did not head them until they had come
to the
borders of the land Desolation; and there they did head them, by the
narrow
pass which led by the sea into the land northward, yea, by the sea, on
the west
and on the east.

ALM 50:35 And it came to pass that the army which was sent by
Moroni, which was
led by a man whose name was Teancum, did meet the people of
Morianton; and so
stubborn were the people of Morianton, (being inspired by his
wickedness and
his flattering words) that a battle commenced between them, in
the which
Teancum did slay Morianton and defeat his army, and took them
prisoners, and
returned to the camp of Moroni. And thus ended the twenty and
fourth year of
the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.

ALM 50:36 And
thus were the people of Morianton brought back. And upon their
covenanting to
keep the peace they were restored to the land of Morianton, and
a union took
place between them and the people of Lehi; and they were also
restored to their
lands.

ALM 50:37 And it came to pass that in the same year that the people of
Nephi
had peace restored unto them, that Nephihah, the second chief judge,
died,
having filled the judgment seat with perfect uprightness before God.

ALM
50:38 Nevertheless, he had refused Alma to take possession of those records
and
those things which were esteemed by Alma and his fathers to be most sacred;

therefore Alma had conferred them upon his son, Helaman.

ALM 50:39 Behold, it
came to pass that the son of Nephihah was appointed to
fill the judgment-seat,
in the stead of his father; yea, he was appointed chief
judge and governor over
the people, with an oath and sacred ordinance to judge
righteously, and to keep
the peace and the freedom of the people, and to grant
unto them their sacred
privileges to worship the Lord their God, yea, to
support and maintain the
cause of God all his days, and to bring the wicked to
justice according to
their crime.

ALM 50:40 Now behold, his name was Pahoran. And Pahoran did fill
the seat of
his father, and did commence his reign in the end of the twenty and
fourth
year, over the people of Nephi.

ALM 51:0 King-men and freemen--Pahoran,
chief judge, is sustained by the
freemen--King-men suppressed--Amalickiah's
invasion, defeat, and death.

ALM 51:1 And now it came to pass in the
commencement of the twenty and fifth
year of the reign of the judges over the
people of Nephi, they having
established peace between the people of Lehi and
the people of Morianton
concerning their lands, and having commenced the twenty
and fifth year in
peace;

ALM 51:2 Nevertheless, they did not long maintain an
entire peace in the land,
for there began to be a contention among the people
concerning the chief judge
Pahoran; for behold, there were a part of the people
who desired that a few
particular points of the law should be altered.

ALM
51:3 But behold, Pahoran would not alter nor suffer the law to be altered;

therefore, he did not hearken to those who had sent in their voices with their

petitions concerning the altering of the law.

ALM 51:4 Therefore, those who
were desirous that the law should be altered were
angry with him, and desired
that he should no longer be chief judge over the
land; therefore there arose a
warm dispute concerning the matter, but not unto
bloodshed.

ALM 51:5 And it
came to pass that those who were desirous that Pahoran should
be dethroned from
the judgment-seat were called king-men, for they were
desirous that the law
should be altered in a manner to overthrow the free
government and to establish
a king over the land.

ALM 51:6 And those who were desirous that Pahoran should
remain chief judge
over the land took upon them the name of freemen; and thus
was the division
among them, for the freemen had sworn or covenanted to
maintain their rights
and the privileges of their religion by a free
government.

ALM 51:7 And it came to pass that this matter of their contention
was settled
by the voice of the people. And it came to pass that the voice of
the people
came in favor of the freemen, and Pahoran retained the judgment-
seat, which
caused much rejoicing among the brethren of Pahoran and also many
of the people
of liberty, who also put the king-men to silence, that they durst
not oppose
but were obliged to maintain the cause of freedom.

ALM 51:8 Now
those who were in favor of kings were those of high birth, and
they sought to
be kings; and they were supported by those who sought power and
authority over
the people.

ALM 51:9 But behold, this was a critical time for such contentions
to be among
the people of Nephi; for behold, Amalickiah had again stirred up
the hearts of
the people of the Lamanites against the people of the Nephites,
and he was
gathering together soldiers from all parts of his land, and arming
them, and
preparing for war with all diligence; for he had sworn to drink the
blood of
Moroni.

ALM 51:10 But behold, we shall see that his promise which he
made was rash;
nevertheless, he did prepare himself and his armies to come to
battle against
the Nephites.

ALM 51:11 Now his armies were not so great as
they had hitherto been, because
of the many thousands who had been slain by the
hand of the Nephites; but
notwithstanding their great loss, Amalickiah had
gathered together a
wonderfully great army, insomuch that he feared not to come
down to the land of
Zarahemla.

ALM 51:12 Yea, even Amalickiah did himself come
down, at the head of the
Lamanites. And it was in the twenty and fifth year of
the reign of the judges;
and it was at the same time that they had begun to
settle the affairs of their
contentions concerning the chief judge, Pahoran.


ALM 51:13 And it came to pass that when the men who were called king-men had

heard that the Lamanites were coming down to battle against them, they were

glad in their hearts; and they refused to take up arms, for they were so wroth

with the chief judge, and also with the people of liberty, that they would not

take up arms to defend their country.

ALM 51:14 And it came to pass that when
Moroni saw this, and also saw that the
Lamanites were coming into the borders
of the land, he was exceedingly wroth
because of the stubbornness of those
people whom he had labored with so much
diligence to preserve; yea, he was
exceedingly wroth; his soul was filled with
anger against them.

ALM 51:15 And
it came to pass that he sent a petition, with the voice of the
people, unto the
governor of the land, desiring that he should read it, and
give him (Moroni)
power to compel those dissenters to defend their country or
to put them to
death.

ALM 51:16 For it was his first care to put an end to such contentions
and
dissensions among the people; for behold, this had been hitherto a cause of
all
their destruction. And it came to pass that it was granted according to
the
voice of the people.

ALM 51:17 And it came to pass that Moroni commanded
that his army should go
against those king-men, to pull down their pride and
their nobility and level
them with the earth, or they should take up arms and
support the cause of
liberty.

ALM 51:18 And it came to pass that the armies
did march forth against them; and
they did pull down their pride and their
nobility, insomuch that as they did
lift their weapons of war to fight against
the men of Moroni they were hewn
down and leveled to the earth.

ALM 51:19 And
it came to pass that there were four thousand of those dissenters
who were hewn
down by the sword; and those of their leaders who were not slain
in battle were
taken and cast into prison, for there was no time for their
trials at this
period.

ALM 51:20 And the remainder of those dissenters, rather than be
smitten down to
the earth by the sword, yielded to the standard of liberty, and
were compelled
to hoist the title of liberty upon their towers, and in their
cities, and to
take up arms in defence of their country.

ALM 51:21 And thus
Moroni put an end to those king-men, that there were not any
known by the
appellation of king-men; and thus he put an end to the
stubbornness and the
pride of those people who professed the blood of nobility;
but they were
brought down to humble themselves like unto their brethren, and
to fight
valiantly for their freedom from bondage.

ALM 51:22 Behold, it came to pass
that while Moroni was thus breaking down the
wars and contentions among his own
people, and subjecting them to peace and
civilization, and making regulations
to prepare for war against the Lamanites,
behold, the Lamanites had come into
the land of Moroni, which was in the
borders by the seashore.

ALM 51:23 And it
came to pass that the Nephites were not sufficiently strong in
the city of
Moroni; therefore Amalickiah did drive them, slaying many. And it
came to pass
that Amalickiah took possession of the city, yea, possession of
all their
fortifications.

ALM 51:24 And those who fled out of the city of Moroni came to
the city of
Nephihah; and also the people of the city of Lehi gathered
themselves together,
and made preparations and were ready to receive the
Lamanites to battle.

ALM 51:25 But it came to pass that Amalickiah would not
suffer the Lamanites to
go against the city of Nephihah to battle, but kept
them down by the seashore,
leaving men in every city to maintain and defend
it.

ALM 51:26 And thus he went on, taking possession of many cities, the city
of
Nephihah, and the city of Lehi, and the city of Morianton, and the city of

Omner, and the city of Gid, and the city of Mulek, all of which were on the

east borders by the seashore.

ALM 51:27 And thus had the Lamanites obtained,
by the cunning of Amalickiah, so
many cities, by their numberless hosts, all of
which were strongly fortified
after the manner of the fortifications of Moroni;
all of which afforded
strongholds for the Lamanites.

ALM 51:28 And it came to
pass that they marched to the borders of the land
Bountiful, driving the
Nephites before them and slaying many.

ALM 51:29 But it came to pass that they
were met by Teancum, who had slain
Morianton and had headed his people in his
flight.

ALM 51:30 And it came to pass that he headed Amalickiah also, as he
was
marching forth with his numerous army that he might take possession of the
land
Bountiful, and also the land northward.

ALM 51:31 But behold he met with
a disappointment by being repulsed by Teancum
and his men, for they were great
warriors; for every man of Teancum did exceed
the Lamanites in their strength
and in their skill of war, insomuch that they
did gain advantage over the
Lamanites.

ALM 51:32 And it came to pass that they did harass them, insomuch
that they did
slay them even until it was dark. And it came to pass that
Teancum and his men
did pitch their tents in the borders of the land Bountiful;
and Amalickiah did
pitch his tents in the borders on the beach by the seashore,
and after this
manner were they driven.

ALM 51:33 And it came to pass that
when the night had come, Teancum and his
servant stole forth and went out by
night, and went into the camp of
Amalickiah; and behold, sleep had overpowered
them because of their much
fatigue, which was caused by the labors and heat of
the day.

ALM 51:34 And it came to pass that Teancum stole privily into the
tent of the
king, and put a javelin to his heart; and he did cause the death of
the king
immediately that he did not awake his servants.

ALM 51:35 And he
returned again privily to his own camp, and behold, his men
were asleep, and he
awoke them and told them all the things that he had done.

ALM 51:36 And he
caused that his armies should stand in readiness, lest the
Lamanites had
awakened and should come upon them.

ALM 51:37 And thus endeth the twenty and
fifth year of the reign of the judges
over the people of Nephi; and thus endeth
the days of Amalickiah.

ALM 52:0 Ammoron succeeds Amalickiah--Moroni, with
Teancum and Lehi, retakes
city of Mulek and wins great victory--Death of Jacob,
the Lamanite general.

ALM 52:1 And now, it came to pass in the twenty and
sixth year of the reign of
the judges over the people of Nephi, behold, when
the Lamanites awoke on the
first morning of the first month, behold, they found
Amalickiah was dead in his
own tent; and they also saw that Teancum was ready
to give them battle on that
day.

ALM 52:2 And now, when the Lamanites saw this
they were affrighted; and they
abandoned their design in marching into the land
northward, and retreated with
all their army into the city of Mulek, and sought
protection in their
fortifications.

ALM 52:3 And it came to pass that the
brother of Amalickiah was appointed king
over the people; and his name was
Ammoron; thus king Ammoron, the brother of
king Amalickiah, was appointed to
reign in his stead.

ALM 52:4 And it came to pass that he did command that his
people should
maintain those cities, which they had taken by the shedding of
blood; for they
had not taken any cities save they had lost much blood.

ALM
52:5 And now, Teancum saw that the Lamanites were determined to maintain
those
cities which they had taken, and those parts of the land which they had

obtained possession of; and also seeing the enormity of their number, Teancum

thought it was not expedient that he should attempt to attack them in their

forts.

ALM 52:6 But he kept his men round about, as if making preparations for
war;
yea, and truly he was preparing to defend himself against them, by casting
up
walls round about and preparing places of resort.

ALM 52:7 And it came to
pass that he kept thus preparing for war until Moroni
had sent a large number
of men to strengthen his army.

ALM 52:8 And Moroni also sent orders unto him
that he should retain all the
prisoners who fell into his hands; for as the
Lamanites had taken many
prisoners, that he should retain all the prisoners of
the Lamanites as a ransom
for those whom the Lamanites had taken.

ALM 52:9 And
he also sent orders unto him that he should fortify the land
Bountiful, and
secure the narrow pass which led into the land northward, lest
the Lamanites
should obtain that point and should have power to harass them on
every side.


ALM 52:10 And Moroni also sent unto him, desiring him that he would be
faithful
in maintaining that quarter of the land, and that he would seek every

opportunity to scourge the Lamanites in that quarter, as much as was in his

power, that perhaps he might take again by stratagem or some other way those

cities which had been taken out of their hands; and that he also would fortify

and strengthen the cities round about, which had not fallen into the hands of

the Lamanites.

ALM 52:11 And he also said unto him, I would come unto you, but
behold, the
Lamanites are upon us in the borders of the land by the west sea;
and behold, I
go against them, therefore I cannot come unto you.

ALM 52:12
Now, the king (Ammoron) had departed out of the land of Zarahemla,
and had made
known unto the queen concerning the death of his brother, and had
gathered
together a large number of men, and had marched forth against the
Nephites on
the borders by the west sea.

ALM 52:13 And thus he was endeavoring to harass
the Nephites, and to draw away
a part of their forces to that part of the land,
while he had commanded those
whom he had left to possess the cities which he
had taken, that they should
also harass the Nephites on the borders by the east
sea, and should take
possession of their lands as much as it was in their
power, according to the
power of their armies.

ALM 52:14 And thus were the
Nephites in those dangerous circumstances in the
ending of the twenty and sixth
year of the reign of the judges over the people
of Nephi.

ALM 52:15 But
behold, it came to pass in the twenty and seventh year of the
reign of the
judges, that Teancum, by the command of Moroni--who had
established armies to
protect the south and the west borders of the land, and
had begun his march
towards the land Bountiful, that he might assist Teancum
with his men in
retaking the cities which they had lost--

ALM 52:16 And it came to pass that
Teancum had received orders to make an
attack upon the city of Mulek, and
retake it if it were possible.

ALM 52:17 And it came to pass that Teancum made
preparations to make an attack
upon the city of Mulek, and march forth with his
army against the Lamanites;
but he saw that it was impossible that he could
overpower them while they were
in their fortifications; therefore he abandoned
his designs and returned again
to the city Bountiful, to wait for the coming of
Moroni, that he might receive
strength to his army.

ALM 52:18 And it came to
pass that Moroni did arrive with his army at the land
of Bountiful, in the
latter end of the twenty and seventh year of the reign of
the judges over the
people of Nephi.

ALM 52:19 And in the commencement of the twenty and eighth
year, Moroni and
Teancum and many of the chief captains held a council of war--
what they should
do to cause the Lamanites to come out against them to battle;
or that they
might by some means flatter them out of their strongholds, that
they might gain
advantage over them and take again the city of Mulek.

ALM
52:20 And it came to pass they sent embassies to the army of the Lamanites,

which protected the city of Mulek, to their leader, whose name was Jacob,

desiring him that he would come out with his armies to meet them upon the

plains between the two cities. But behold, Jacob, who was a Zoramite, would
not
come out with his army to meet them upon the plains.

ALM 52:21 And it came
to pass that Moroni, having no hopes of meeting them upon
fair grounds,
therefore, he resolved upon a plan that he might decoy the
Lamanites out of
their strongholds.

ALM 52:22 Therefore he caused that Teancum should take a
small number of men
and march down near the seashore; and Moroni and his army,
by night, marched in
the wilderness, on the west of the city Mulek; and thus,
on the morrow, when
the guards of the Lamanites had discovered Teancum, they
ran and told it unto
Jacob, their leader.

ALM 52:23 And it came to pass that
the armies of the Lamanites did march forth
against Teancum, supposing by their
numbers to overpower Teancum because of the
smallness of his numbers. And as
Teancum saw the armies of the Lamanites coming
out against him he began to
retreat down by the seashore, northward.

ALM 52:24 And it came to pass that
when the Lamanites saw that he began to
flee, they took courage and pursued
them with vigor. And while Teancum was thus
leading away the Lamanites who were
pursuing them in vain, behold, Moroni
commanded that a part of his army who
were with him should march forth into the
city, and take possession of it.

ALM
52:25 And thus they did, and slew all those who had been left to protect
the
city, yea, all those who would not yield up their weapons of war.

ALM 52:26
And thus Moroni had obtained possession of the city Mulek with a part
of his
army, while he marched with the remainder to meet the Lamanites when
they
should return from the pursuit of Teancum.

ALM 52:27 And it came to pass that
the Lamanites did pursue Teancum until they
came near the city Bountiful, and
then they were met by Lehi and a small army,
which had been left to protect the
city Bountiful.

ALM 52:28 And now behold, when the chief captains of the
Lamanites had beheld
Lehi with his army coming against them, they fled in much
confusion, lest
perhaps they should not obtain the city Mulek before Lehi
should overtake them;
for they were wearied because of their march, and the men
of Lehi were fresh.

ALM 52:29 Now the Lamanites did not know that Moroni had
been in their rear
with his army; and all they feared was Lehi and his men.


ALM 52:30 Now Lehi was not desirous to overtake them till they should meet

Moroni and his army.

ALM 52:31 And it came to pass that before the Lamanites
had retreated far they
were surrounded by the Nephites, by the men of Moroni on
one hand, and the men
of Lehi on the other, all of whom were fresh and full of
strength; but the
Lamanites were wearied because of their long march.

ALM
52:32 And Moroni commanded his men that they should fall upon them until
they
had given up their weapons of war.

ALM 52:33 And it came to pass that Jacob,
being their leader, being also a
Zoramite, and having an unconquerable spirit,
he led the Lamanites forth to
battle with exceeding fury against Moroni.

ALM
52:34 Moroni being in their course of march, therefore Jacob was determined
to
slay them and cut his way through to the city of Mulek. But behold, Moroni
and
his men were more powerful; therefore they did not give way before the

Lamanites.

ALM 52:35 And it came to pass that they fought on both hands with
exceeding
fury; and there were many slain on both sides; yea, and Moroni was
wounded and
Jacob was killed.

ALM 52:36 And Lehi pressed upon their rear with
such fury with his strong men,
that the Lamanites in the rear delivered up
their weapons of war; and the
remainder of them, being much confused, knew not
whither to go or to strike.

ALM 52:37 Now Moroni seeing their confusion, he
said unto them: If ye will
bring forth your weapons of war and deliver them up,
behold we will forbear
shedding your blood.

ALM 52:38 And it came to pass that
when the Lamanites had heard these words,
their chief captains, all those who
were not slain, came forth and threw down
their weapons of war at the feet of
Moroni, and also commanded their men that
they should do the same.

ALM 52:39
But behold, there were many that would not; and those who would not
deliver up
their swords were taken and bound, and their weapons of war were
taken from
them, and they were compelled to march with their brethren forth
into the land
Bountiful.

ALM 52:40 And now the number of prisoners who were taken exceeded
more than the
number of those who had been slain, yea, more than those who had
been slain on
both sides.

ALM 53:0 City Bountiful fortified--Nephite
dissension gives advantage to
enemy--Helaman and his two thousand stripling
warriors.

ALM 53:1 And it came to pass that they did set guards over the
prisoners of the
Lamanites, and did compel them to go forth and bury their
dead, yea, and also
the dead of the Nephites who were slain; and Moroni placed
men over them to
guard them while they should perform their labors.

ALM 53:2
And Moroni went to the city of Mulek with Lehi, and took command of
the city
and gave it unto Lehi. Now behold, this Lehi was a man who had been
with Moroni
in the more part of all his battles; and he was a man like unto
Moroni, and
they rejoiced in each other's safety; yea, they were beloved by
each other, and
also beloved by all the people of Nephi.

ALM 53:3 And it came to pass that
after the Lamanites had finished burying
their dead and also the dead of the
Nephites, they were marched back into the
land Bountiful; and Teancum, by the
orders of Moroni, caused that they should
commence laboring in digging a ditch
round about the land, or the city,
Bountiful.

ALM 53:4 And he caused that they
should build a breastwork of timbers upon the
inner bank of the ditch; and they
cast up dirt out of the ditch against the
breastwork of timbers; and thus they
did cause the Lamanites to labor until
they had encircled the city of Bountiful
round about with a strong wall of
timbers and earth, to an exceeding height.


ALM 53:5 And this city became an exceeding stronghold ever after; and in this

city they did guard the prisoners of the Lamanites; yea, even within a wall

which they had caused them to build with their own hands. Now Moroni was

compelled to cause the Lamanites to labor, because it was easy to guard them

while at their labor; and he desired all his forces when he should make an

attack upon the Lamanites.

ALM 53:6 And it came to pass that Moroni had thus
gained a victory over one of
the greatest of the armies of the Lamanites, and
had obtained possession of the
city of Mulek, which was one of the strongest
holds of the Lamanites in the
land of Nephi; and thus he had also built a
stronghold to retain his prisoners.

ALM 53:7 And it came to pass that he did
no more attempt a battle with the
Lamanites in that year, but he did employ his
men in preparing for war, yea,
and in making fortifications to guard against
the Lamanites, yea, and also
delivering their women and their children from
famine and affliction, and
providing food for their armies.

ALM 53:8 And now
it came to pass that the armies of the Lamanites, on the west
sea, south, while
in the absence of Moroni on account of some intrigue amongst
the Nephites,
which caused dissensions amongst them, had gained some ground
over the
Nephites, yea, insomuch that they had obtained possession of a number
of their
cities in that part of the land.

ALM 53:9 And thus because of iniquity amongst
themselves, yea, because of
dissensions and intrigue among themselves they were
placed in the most
dangerous circumstances.

ALM 53:10 And now behold, I have
somewhat to say concerning the people of
Ammon, who, in the beginning, were
Lamanites; but by Ammon and his brethren, or
rather by the power and word of
God, they had been converted unto the Lord; and
they had been brought down into
the land of Zarahemla, and had ever since been
protected by the Nephites.

ALM
53:11 And because of their oath they had been kept from taking up arms
against
their brethren; for they had taken an oath that they never would shed
blood
more; and according to their oath they would have perished; yea, they
would
have suffered themselves to have fallen into the hands of their brethren,
had
it not been for the pity and the exceeding love which Ammon and his
brethren
had had for them.

ALM 53:12 And for this cause they were brought down into the
land of Zarahemla;
and they ever had been protected by the Nephites.

ALM 53:13
But it came to pass that when they saw the danger, and the many
afflictions and
tribulations which the Nephites bore for them, they were moved
with compassion
and were desirous to take up arms in the defence of their
country.

ALM 53:14
But behold, as they were about to take their weapons of war, they
were
overpowered by the persuasions of Helaman and his brethren, for they were
about
to break the oath which they had made.

ALM 53:15 And Helaman feared lest by so
doing they should lose their souls;
therefore all those who had entered into
this covenant were compelled to behold
their brethren wade through their
afflictions, in their dangerous circumstances
at this time.

ALM 53:16 But
behold, it came to pass they had many sons, who had not entered
into a covenant
that they would not take their weapons of war to defend
themselves against
their enemies; therefore they did assemble themselves
together at this time, as
many as were able to take up arms, and they called
themselves Nephites.

ALM
53:17 And they entered into a covenant to fight for the liberty of the

Nephites, yea, to protect the land unto the laying down of their lives; yea,

even they covenanted that they never would give up their liberty, but they

would fight in all cases to protect the Nephites and themselves from bondage.


ALM 53:18 Now behold, there were two thousand of those young men, who entered

into this covenant and took their weapons of war to defend their country.

ALM
53:19 And now behold, as they never had hitherto been a disadvantage to the

Nephites, they became now at this period of time also a great support; for
they
took their weapons of war, and they would that Helaman should be their
leader.

ALM 53:20 And they were all young men, and they were exceedingly
valiant for
courage, and also for strength and activity; but behold, this was
not all--they
were men who were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were
entrusted.

ALM 53:21 Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had
been taught
to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him.


ALM 53:22 And now it came to pass that Helaman did march at the head of his
two
thousand stripling soldiers, to the support of the people in the borders of
the
land on the south by the west sea.

ALM 53:23 And thus ended the twenty and
eighth year of the reign of the judges
over the people of Nephi.

ALM 54:0
Ammoron asks for exchange of prisoners--Moroni grants request upon
conditions--
The Lamanite king's angry reply.

ALM 54:1 And now it came to pass in the
commencement of the twenty and ninth
year of the judges, that Ammoron sent unto
Moroni desiring that he would
exchange prisoners.

ALM 54:2 And it came to pass
that Moroni felt to rejoice exceedingly at this
request, for he desired the
provisions which were imparted for the support of
the Lamanite prisoners for
the support of his own people; and he also desired
his own people for the
strengthening of his army.

ALM 54:3 Now the Lamanites had taken many women and
children, and there was not
a woman nor a child among all the prisoners of
Moroni, or the prisoners whom
Moroni had taken; therefore Moroni resolved upon
a stratagem to obtain as many
prisoners of the Nephites from the Lamanites as
it were possible.

ALM 54:4 Therefore he wrote an epistle, and sent it by the
servant of Ammoron,
the same who had brought an epistle to Moroni. Now these
are the words which he
wrote unto Ammoron, saying:

ALM 54:5 Behold, Ammoron, I
have written unto you somewhat concerning this war
which ye have waged against
my people, or rather which thy brother hath waged
against them, and which ye
are still determined to carry on after his death.

ALM 54:6 Behold, I would
tell you somewhat concerning the justice of God, and
the sword of his almighty
wrath, which doth hang over you except ye repent and
withdraw your armies into
your own lands, or the land of your possessions,
which is the land of Nephi.


ALM 54:7 Yea, I would tell you these things if ye were capable of hearkening

unto them; yea, I would tell you concerning that awful hell that awaits to

receive such murderers as thou and thy brother have been, except ye repent and

withdraw your murderous purposes, and return with your armies to your own

lands.

ALM 54:8 But as ye have once rejected these things, and have fought
against the
people of the Lord, even so I may expect you will do it again.

ALM
54:9 And now behold, we are prepared to receive you; yea, and except you

withdraw your purposes, behold, ye will pull down the wrath of that God whom

you have rejected upon you, even to your utter destruction.

ALM 54:10 But, as
the Lord liveth, our armies shall come upon you except ye
withdraw, and ye
shall soon be visited with death, for we will retain our
cities and our lands;
yea, and we will maintain our religion and the cause of
our God.

ALM 54:11 But
behold, it supposeth me that I talk to you concerning these
things in vain; or
it supposeth me that thou art a child of hell; therefore I
will close my
epistle by telling you that I will not exchange prisoners, save
it be on
conditions that ye will deliver up a man and his wife and his
children, for one
prisoner; if this be the case that ye will do it, I will
exchange.

ALM 54:12
And behold, if ye do not this, I will come against you with my
armies; yea,
even I will arm my women and my children, and I will come against
you, and I
will follow you even into your own land, which is the land of our
first
inheritance; yea, and it shall be blood for blood, yea, life for life;
and I
will give you battle even until you are destroyed from off the face of
the
earth.

ALM 54:13 Behold, I am in my anger, and also my people; ye have sought
to
murder us, and we have only sought to defend ourselves. But behold, if ye
seek
to destroy us more we will seek to destroy you; yea, and we will seek our
land,
the land of our first inheritance.

ALM 54:14 Now I close my epistle. I
am Moroni; I am a leader of the people of
the Nephites.

ALM 54:15 Now it came
to pass that Ammoron, when he had received this epistle,
was angry; and he
wrote another epistle unto Moroni, and these are the words
which he wrote,
saying:

ALM 54:16 I am Ammoron, the king of the Lamanites; I am the brother
of
Amalickiah whom ye have murdered. Behold, I will avenge his blood upon you,

yea, and I will come upon you with my armies for I fear not your threatenings.

ALM 54:17 For behold, your fathers did wrong their brethren, insomuch that
they
did rob them of their right to the government when it rightly belonged
unto
them.

ALM 54:18 And now behold, if ye will lay down your arms, and
subject yourselves
to be governed by those to whom the government doth rightly
belong, then will I
cause that my people shall lay down their weapons and shall
be at war no more.

ALM 54:19 Behold, ye have breathed out many threatenings
against me and my
people; but behold, we fear not your threatenings.

ALM 54:20
Nevertheless, I will grant to exchange prisoners according to your
request,
gladly, that I may preserve my food for my men of war; and we will
wage a war
which shall be eternal, either to the subjecting the Nephites to our
authority
or to their eternal extinction.

ALM 54:21 And as concerning that God whom ye
say we have rejected, behold, we
know not such a being; neither do ye; but if
it so be that there is such a
being, we know not but that he hath made us as
well as you.

ALM 54:22 And if it so be that there is a devil and a hell,
behold will he not
send you there to dwell with my brother whom ye have
murdered, whom ye have
hinted that he hath gone to such a place? But behold
these things matter not.

ALM 54:23 I am Ammoron, and a descendant of Zoram,
whom your fathers pressed
and brought out of Jerusalem.

ALM 54:24 And behold
now, I am a bold Lamanite; behold, this war hath been
waged to avenge their
wrongs, and to maintain and to obtain their rights to the
government; and I
close my epistle to Moroni.

ALM 55:0 Moroni, incensed at Ammoron's false
assertions, refuses to exchange
prisoners--Strategy secures release of captured
Nephites--City of Gid taken
without bloodshed.

ALM 55:1 Now it came to pass
that when Moroni had received this epistle he was
more angry, because he knew
that Ammoron had a perfect knowledge of his fraud;
yea, he knew that Ammoron
knew that it was not a just cause that had caused him
to wage a war against the
people of Nephi.

ALM 55:2 And he said: Behold, I will not exchange prisoners
with Ammoron save
he will withdraw his purpose, as I have stated in my epistle;
for I will not
grant unto him that he shall have any more power than what he
hath got.

ALM 55:3 Behold, I know the place where the Lamanites do guard my
people whom
they have taken prisoners; and as Ammoron would not grant unto me
mine epistle,
behold, I will give unto him according to my words; yea, I will
seek death
among them until they shall sue for peace.

ALM 55:4 And now it came
to pass that when Moroni had said these words, he
caused that a search should
be made among his men, that perhaps he might find a
man who was a descendant of
Laman among them.

ALM 55:5 And it came to pass that they found one, whose name
was Laman; and he
was one of the servants of the king who was murdered by
Amalickiah.

ALM 55:6 Now Moroni caused that Laman and a small number of his
men should go
forth unto the guards who were over the Nephites.

ALM 55:7 Now
the Nephites were guarded in the city of Gid; therefore Moroni
appointed Laman
and caused that a small number of men should go with him.

ALM 55:8 And when it
was evening Laman went to the guards who were over the
Nephites, and behold,
they saw him coming and they hailed him; but he saith
unto them: Fear not;
behold, I am a Lamanite. Behold, we have escaped from the
Nephites, and they
sleep; and behold we have taken of their wine and brought
with us.

ALM 55:9
Now when the Lamanites heard these words they received him with joy;
and they
said unto him: Give us of your wine, that we may drink; we are glad
that ye
have thus taken wine with you for we are weary.

ALM 55:10 But Laman said unto
them: Let us keep of our wine till we go against
the Nephites to battle. But
this saying only made them more desirous to drink
of the wine;

ALM 55:11 For,
said they: We are weary, therefore let us take of the wine, and
by and by we
shall receive wine for our rations, which will strengthen us to go
against the
Nephites.

ALM 55:12 And Laman said unto them: You may do according to your
desires.

ALM 55:13 And it came to pass that they did take of the wine freely;
and it was
pleasant to their taste, therefore they took of it more freely; and
it was
strong, having been prepared in its strength.

ALM 55:14 And it came to
pass they did drink and were merry, and by and by they
were all drunken.

ALM
55:15 And now when Laman and his men saw that they were all drunken, and
were
in a deep sleep, they returned to Moroni and told him all the things that
had
happened.

ALM 55:16 And now this was according to the design of Moroni. And
Moroni had
prepared his men with weapons of war; and he went to the city Gid,
while the
Lamanites were in a deep sleep and drunken, and cast in weapons of
war unto the
prisoners, insomuch that they were all armed;

ALM 55:17 Yea, even
to their women, and all those of their children, as many as
were able to use a
weapon of war, when Moroni had armed all those prisoners;
and all those things
were done in a profound silence.

ALM 55:18 But had they awakened the
Lamanites, behold they were drunken and the
Nephites could have slain them.


ALM 55:19 But behold, this was not the desire of Moroni; he did not delight in

murder or bloodshed, but he delighted in the saving of his people from

destruction; and for this cause he might not bring upon him injustice, he
would
not fall upon the Lamanites and destroy them in their drunkenness.

ALM
55:20 But he had obtained his desires; for he had armed those prisoners of
the
Nephites who were within the wall of the city, and had given them power to
gain
possession of those parts which were within the walls.

ALM 55:21 And then he
caused the men who were with him to withdraw a pace from
them, and surround the
armies of the Lamanites.

ALM 55:22 Now behold this was done in the night-time,
so that when the
Lamanites awoke in the morning they beheld that they were
surrounded by the
Nephites without, and that their prisoners were armed
within.

ALM 55:23 And thus they saw that the Nephites had power over them; and
in these
circumstances they found that it was not expedient that they should
fight with
the Nephites; therefore their chief captains demanded their weapons
of war, and
they brought them forth and cast them at the feet of the Nephites,
pleading for
mercy.

ALM 55:24 Now behold, this was the desire of Moroni. He
took them prisoners of
war, and took possession of the city, and caused that
all the prisoners should
be liberated, who were Nephites; and they did join the
army of Moroni, and were
a great strength to his army.

ALM 55:25 And it came
to pass that he did cause the Lamanites, whom he had
taken prisoners, that they
should commence a labor in strengthening the
fortifications round about the
city Gid.

ALM 55:26 And it came to pass that when he had fortified the city
Gid,
according to his desires, he caused that his prisoners should be taken to
the
city Bountiful; and he also guarded that city with an exceedingly strong
force.

ALM 55:27 And it came to pass that they did, notwithstanding all the
intrigues
of the Lamanites, keep and protect all the prisoners whom they had
taken, and
also maintain all the ground and the advantage which they had
retaken.

ALM 55:28 And it came to pass that the Nephites began again to be
victorious,
and to reclaim their rights and their privileges.

ALM 55:29 Many
times did the Lamanites attempt to encircle them about by night,
but in these
attempts they did lose many prisoners.

ALM 55:30 And many times did they
attempt to administer of their wine to the
Nephites, that they might destroy
them with poison or with drunkenness.

ALM 55:31 But behold, the Nephites were
not slow to remember the Lord their God
in this their time of affliction. They
could not be taken in their snares; yea,
they would not partake of their wine,
save they had first given to some of the
Lamanite prisoners.

ALM 55:32 And
they were thus cautious that no poison should be administered
among them; for
if their wine would poison a Lamanite it would also poison a
Nephite; and thus
they did try all their liquors.

ALM 55:33 And now it came to pass that it was
expedient for Moroni to make
preparations to attack the city Morianton; for
behold, the Lamanites had, by
their labors, fortified the city Morianton until
it had become an exceeding
stronghold.

ALM 55:34 And they were continually
bringing new forces into that city, and
also new supplies of provisions.

ALM
55:35 And thus ended the twenty and ninth year of the reign of the judges
over
the people of Nephi.

ALM 56:0 Helaman's epistle to Moroni--Wonderful faith and
valor of the
stripling Ammonites--Another great battle--Nephites victorious.


ALM 56:1 And now it came to pass in the commencement of the thirtieth year of

the reign of the judges, on the second day in the first month, Moroni received

an epistle from Helaman, stating the affairs of the people in that quarter of

the land.

ALM 56:2 And these are the words which he wrote, saying: My dearly
beloved
brother, Moroni, as well in the Lord as in the tribulations of our
warfare;
behold, my beloved brother, I have somewhat to tell you concerning our
warfare
in this part of the land.

ALM 56:3 Behold, two thousand of the sons of
those men whom Ammon brought down
out of the land of Nephi--now ye have known
that these were descendants of
Laman, who was the eldest son of our father
Lehi;

ALM 56:4 Now I need not rehearse unto you concerning their traditions or
their
unbelief, for thou knowest concerning all these things--

ALM 56:5
Therefore it sufficeth me that I tell you that two thousand of these
young men
have taken their weapons of war, and would that I should be their
leader; and
we have come forth to defend our country.

ALM 56:6 And now ye also know
concerning the covenant which their fathers made,
that they would not take up
their weapons of war against their brethren to shed
blood.

ALM 56:7 But in the
twenty and sixth year, when they saw our afflictions and
our tribulations for
them, they were about to break the covenant which they had
made and take up
their weapons of war in our defence.

ALM 56:8 But I would not suffer them that
they should break this covenant which
they had made, supposing that God would
strengthen us, insomuch that we should
not suffer more because of the
fulfilling the oath which they had taken.

ALM 56:9 But behold, here is one
thing in which we may have great joy. For
behold, in the twenty and sixth year,
I, Helaman, did march at the head of
these two thousand young men to the city
of Judea, to assist Antipus, whom ye
had appointed a leader over the people of
that part of the land.

ALM 56:10 And I did join my two thousand sons, (for
they are worthy to be
called sons) to the army of Antipus, in which strength
Antipus did rejoice
exceedingly; for behold, his army had been reduced by the
Lamanites because
their forces had slain a vast number of our men, for which
cause we have to
mourn.

ALM 56:11 Nevertheless, we may console ourselves in
this point, that they have
died in the cause of their country and of their God,
yea, and they are happy.

ALM 56:12 And the Lamanites had also retained many
prisoners, all of whom are
chief captains, for none other have they spared
alive. And we suppose that they
are now at this time in the land of Nephi; it
is so if they are not slain.

ALM 56:13 And now these are the cities of which
the Lamanites have obtained
possession by the shedding of the blood of so many
of our valiant men;

ALM 56:14 The land of Manti, or the city of Manti, and the
city of Zeezrom, and
the city of Cumeni, and the city of Antiparah.

ALM 56:15
And these are the cities which they possessed when I arrived at the
city of
Judea; and I found Antipus and his men toiling with their might to
fortify the
city.

ALM 56:16 Yea, and they were depressed in body as well as in spirit, for
they
had fought valiantly by day and toiled by night to maintain their cities;
and
thus they had suffered great afflictions of every kind.

ALM 56:17 And now
they were determined to conquer in this place or die;
therefore you may well
suppose that this little force which I brought with me,
yea, those sons of
mine, gave them great hopes and much joy.

ALM 56:18 And now it came to pass
that when the Lamanites saw that Antipus had
received a greater strength to his
army, they were compelled by the orders of
Ammoron to not come against the city
of Judea, or against us, to battle.

ALM 56:19 And thus were we favored of the
Lord; for had they come upon us in
this our weakness they might have perhaps
destroyed our little army; but thus
were we preserved.

ALM 56:20 They were
commanded by Ammoron to maintain those cities which they
had taken. And thus
ended the twenty and sixth year. And in the commencement of
the twenty and
seventh year we had prepared our city and ourselves for defence.

ALM 56:21 Now
we were desirous that the Lamanites should come upon us; for we
were not
desirous to make an attack upon them in their strongholds.

ALM 56:22 And it
came to pass that we kept spies out round about, to watch the
movements of the
Lamanites, that they might not pass us by night nor by day to
make an attack
upon our other cities which were on the northward.

ALM 56:23 For we knew in
those cities they were not sufficiently strong to meet
them; therefore we were
desirous, if they should pass by us, to fall upon them
in their rear, and thus
bring them up in the rear at the same time they were
met in the front. We
supposed that we could overpower them; but behold, we were
disappointed in this
our desire.

ALM 56:24 They durst not pass by us with their whole army, neither
durst they
with a part, lest they should not be sufficiently strong and they
should fall.

ALM 56:25 Neither durst they march down against the city of
Zarahemla; neither
durst they cross the head of Sidon, over to the city of
Nephihah.

ALM 56:26 And thus, with their forces, they were determined to
maintain those
cities which they had taken.

ALM 56:27 And now it came to pass
in the second month of this year, there was
brought unto us many provisions
from the fathers of those my two thousand sons.

ALM 56:28 And also there were
sent two thousand men unto us from the land of
Zarahemla. And thus we were
prepared with ten thousand men, and provisions for
them, and also for their
wives and their children.

ALM 56:29 And the Lamanites, thus seeing our forces
increase daily, and
provisions arrive for our support, they began to be
fearful, and began to sally
forth, if it were possible to put an end to our
receiving provisions and
strength.

ALM 56:30 Now when we saw that the
Lamanites began to grow uneasy on this wise,
we were desirous to bring a
stratagem into effect upon them; therefore Antipus
ordered that I should march
forth with my little sons to a neighboring city, as
if we were carrying
provisions to a neighboring city.

ALM 56:31 And we were to march near the city
of Antiparah, as if we were going
to the city beyond, in the borders by the
seashore.

ALM 56:32 And it came to pass that we did march forth, as if with
our
provisions, to go to that city.

ALM 56:33 And it came to pass that Antipus
did march forth with a part of his
army, leaving the remainder to maintain the
city. But he did not march forth
until I had gone forth with my little army,
and came near the city Antiparah.

ALM 56:34 And now, in the city Antiparah
were stationed the strongest army of
the Lamanites; yea, the most numerous.


ALM 56:35 And it came to pass that when they had been informed by their spies,

they came forth with their army and marched against us.

ALM 56:36 And it came
to pass that we did flee before them, northward. And thus
we did lead away the
most powerful army of the Lamanites;

ALM 56:37 Yea, even to a considerable
distance, insomuch that when they saw the
army of Antipus pursuing them, with
their might, they did not turn to the right
nor to the left, but pursued their
march in a straight course after us; and, as
we suppose, it was their intent to
slay us before Antipus should overtake them,
and this that they might not be
surrounded by our people.

ALM 56:38 And now Antipus, beholding our danger, did
speed the march of his
army. But behold, it was night; therefore they did not
overtake us, neither did
Antipus overtake them; therefore we did camp for the
night.

ALM 56:39 And it came to pass that before the dawn of the morning,
behold, the
Lamanites were pursuing us. Now we were not sufficiently strong to
contend with
them; yea, I would not suffer that my little sons should fall into
their hands;
therefore we did continue our march, and we took our march into
the wilderness.

ALM 56:40 Now they durst not turn to the right nor to the left
lest they should
be surrounded; neither would I turn to the right nor to the
left lest they
should overtake me, and we could not stand against them, but be
slain, and they
would make their escape; and thus we did flee all that day into
the wilderness,
even until it was dark.

ALM 56:41 And it came to pass that
again, when the light of the morning came we
saw the Lamanites upon us, and we
did flee before them.

ALM 56:42 But it came to pass that they did not pursue
us far before they
halted; and it was in the morning of the third day of the
seventh month.

ALM 56:43 And now, whether they were overtaken by Antipus we
knew not, but I
said unto my men: Behold, we know not but they have halted for
the purpose that
we should come against them, that they might catch us in their
snare;

ALM 56:44 Therefore what say ye, my sons, will ye go against them to
battle?

ALM 56:45 And now I say unto you, my beloved brother Moroni, that
never had I
seen so great courage, nay, not amongst all the Nephites.

ALM
56:46 For as I had ever called them my sons (for they were all of them very

young) even so they said unto me: Father, behold our God is with us, and he

will not suffer that we should fall; then let us go forth; we would not slay

our brethren if they would let us alone; therefore let us go, lest they should

overpower the army of Antipus.

ALM 56:47 Now they never had fought, yet they
did not fear death; and they did
think more upon the liberty of their fathers
than they did upon their lives;
yea, they had been taught by their mothers,
that if they did not doubt, God
would deliver them.

ALM 56:48 And they
rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do
not doubt our
mothers knew it.

ALM 56:49 And it came to pass that I did return with my two
thousand against
these Lamanites who had pursued us. And now behold, the armies
of Antipus had
overtaken them, and a terrible battle had commenced.

ALM 56:50
The army of Antipus being weary, because of their long march in so
short a
space of time, were about to fall into the hands of the Lamanites; and
had I
not returned with my two thousand they would have obtained their purpose.

ALM
56:51 For Antipus had fallen by the sword, and many of his leaders, because
of
their weariness, which was occasioned by the speed of their march--therefore

the men of Antipus, being confused because of the fall of their leaders, began

to give way before the Lamanites.

ALM 56:52 And it came to pass that the
Lamanites took courage, and began to
pursue them; and thus were the Lamanites
pursuing them with great vigor when
Helaman came upon their rear with his two
thousand, and began to slay them
exceedingly, insomuch that the whole army of
the Lamanites halted and turned
upon Helaman.

ALM 56:53 Now when the people of
Antipus saw that the Lamanites had turned them
about, they gathered together
their men and came again upon the rear of the
Lamanites.

ALM 56:54 And now it
came to pass that we, the people of Nephi, the people of
Antipus, and I with my
two thousand, did surround the Lamanites, and did slay
them; yea, insomuch that
they were compelled to deliver up their weapons of war
and also themselves as
prisoners of war.

ALM 56:55 And now it came to pass that when they had
surrendered themselves up
unto us, behold, I numbered those young men who had
fought with me, fearing
lest there were many of them slain.

ALM 56:56 But
behold, to my great joy, there had not one soul of them fallen to
the earth;
yea, and they had fought as if with the strength of God; yea, never
were men
known to have fought with such miraculous strength; and with such
mighty power
did they fall upon the Lamanites, that they did frighten them; and
for this
cause did the Lamanites deliver themselves up as prisoners of war.

ALM 56:57
And as we had no place for our prisoners, that we could guard them to
keep them
from the armies of the Lamanites, therefore we sent them to the land
of
Zarahemla, and a part of those men who were not slain of Antipus, with them;

and the remainder I took and joined them to my stripling Ammonites, and took

our march back to the city of Judea.

ALM 57:0 Helaman's epistle continued--
Antiparah retaken--City of Cumeni
surrenders--Lamanites driven to Manti--A
miraculous preservation--Escape of
Lamanite prisoners.

ALM 57:1 And now it
came to pass that I received an epistle from Ammoron, the
king, stating that if
I would deliver up those prisoners of war whom we had
taken that he would
deliver up the city of Antiparah unto us.

ALM 57:2 But I sent an epistle unto
the king, that we were sure our forces were
sufficient to take the city of
Antiparah by our force; and by delivering up the
prisoners for that city we
should suppose ourselves unwise, and that we would
only deliver up our
prisoners on exchange.

ALM 57:3 And Ammoron refused mine epistle, for he would
not exchange prisoners;
therefore we began to make preparations to go against
the city of Antiparah.

ALM 57:4 But the people of Antiparah did leave the
city, and fled to their
other cities, which they had possession of, to fortify
them; and thus the city
of Antiparah fell into our hands.

ALM 57:5 And thus
ended the twenty and eighth year of the reign of the judges.

ALM 57:6 And it
came to pass that in the commencement of the twenty and ninth
year, we received
a supply of provisions, and also an addition to our army,
from the land of
Zarahemla, and from the land round about, to the number of six
thousand men,
besides sixty of the sons of the Ammonites who had come to join
their brethren,
my little band of two thousand. And now behold, we were strong,
yea, and we had
also plenty of provisions brought unto us.

ALM 57:7 And it came to pass that
it was our desire to wage a battle with the
army which was placed to protect
the city Cumeni.

ALM 57:8 And now behold, I will show unto you that we soon
accomplished our
desire; yea, with our strong force, or with a part of our
strong force, we did
surround, by night, the city Cumeni, a little before they
were to receive a
supply of provisions.

ALM 57:9 And it came to pass that we
did camp round about the city for many
nights; but we did sleep upon our
swords, and keep guards, that the Lamanites
could not come upon us by night and
slay us, which they attempted many times;
but as many times as they attempted
this their blood was spilt.

ALM 57:10 At length their provisions did arrive,
and they were about to enter
the city by night. And we, instead of being
Lamanites, were Nephites;
therefore, we did take them and their provisions.


ALM 57:11 And notwithstanding the Lamanites being cut off from their support

after this manner, they were still determined to maintain the city; therefore

it became expedient that we should take those provisions and send them to

Judea, and our prisoners to the land of Zarahemla.

ALM 57:12 And it came to
pass that not many days had passed away before the
Lamanites began to lose all
hopes of succor; therefore they yielded up the city
unto our hands; and thus we
had accomplished our designs in obtaining the city
Cumeni.

ALM 57:13 But it
came to pass that our prisoners were so numerous that,
notwithstanding the
enormity of our numbers, we were obliged to employ all our
force to keep them,
or to put them to death.

ALM 57:14 For behold, they would break out in great
numbers, and would fight
with stones, and with clubs, or whatsoever thing they
could get into their
hands, insomuch that we did slay upwards of two thousand
of them after they had
surrendered themselves prisoners of war.

ALM 57:15
Therefore it became expedient for us, that we should put an end to
their lives,
or guard them, sword in hand, down to the land of Zarahemla; and
also our
provisions were not any more than sufficient for our own people,

notwithstanding that which we had taken from the Lamanites.

ALM 57:16 And now,
in those critical circumstances, it became a very serious
matter to determine
concerning these prisoners of war; nevertheless, we did
resolve to send them
down to the land of Zarahemla; therefore we selected a
part of our men, and
gave them charge over our prisoners to go down to the land
of Zarahemla.

ALM
57:17 But it came to pass that on the morrow they did return. And now
behold,
we did not inquire of them concerning the prisoners; for behold, the
Lamanites
were upon us, and they returned in season to save us from falling
into their
hands. For behold, Ammoron had sent to their support a new supply of
provisions
and also a numerous army of men.

ALM 57:18 And it came to pass that those men
whom we sent with the prisoners
did arrive in season to check them, as they
were about to overpower us.

ALM 57:19 But behold, my little band of two
thousand and sixty fought most
desperately; yea, they were firm before the
Lamanites, and did administer death
unto all those who opposed them.

ALM 57:20
And as the remainder of our army were about to give way before the
Lamanites,
behold, those two thousand and sixty were firm and undaunted.

ALM 57:21 Yea,
and they did obey and observe to perform every word of command
with exactness;
yea, and even according to their faith it was done unto them;
and I did
remember the words which they said unto me that their mothers had
taught them.

ALM 57:22 And now behold, it was these my sons, and those men who had been

selected to convey the prisoners, to whom we owe this great victory; for it
was
they who did beat the Lamanites; therefore they were driven back to the
city of
Manti.

ALM 57:23 And we retained our city Cumeni, and were not all
destroyed by the
sword; nevertheless, we had suffered great loss.

ALM 57:24
And it came to pass that after the Lamanites had fled, I immediately
gave
orders that my men who had been wounded should be taken from among the
dead,
and caused that their wounds should be dressed.

ALM 57:25 And it came to pass
that there were two hundred, out of my two
thousand and sixty, who had fainted
because of the loss of blood; nevertheless,
according to the goodness of God,
and to our great astonishment, and also the
joy of our whole army, there was
not one soul of them who did perish; yea, and
neither was there one soul among
them who had not received many wounds.

ALM 57:26 And now, their preservation
was astonishing to our whole army, yea,
that they should be spared while there
was a thousand of our brethren who were
slain. And we do justly ascribe it to
the miraculous power of God, because of
their exceeding faith in that which
they had been taught to believe--that there
was a just God, and whosoever did
not doubt, that they should be preserved by
his marvelous power.

ALM 57:27 Now
this was the faith of these of whom I have spoken; they are
young, and their
minds are firm, and they do put their trust in God
continually.

ALM 57:28 And
now it came to pass that after we had thus taken care of our
wounded men, and
had buried our dead and also the dead of the Lamanites, who
were many, behold,
we did inquire of Gid concerning the prisoners whom they had
started to go down
to the land of Zarahemla with.

ALM 57:29 Now Gid was the chief captain over
the band who was appointed to
guard them down to the land.

ALM 57:30 And now,
these are the words which Gid said unto me: Behold, we did
start to go down to
the land of Zarahemla with our prisoners. And it came to
pass that we did meet
the spies of our armies, who had been sent out to watch
the camp of the
Lamanites.

ALM 57:31 And they cried unto us, saying--Behold, the armies of the
Lamanites
are marching towards the city of Cumeni; and behold, they will fall
upon them,
yea, and will destroy our people.

ALM 57:32 And it came to pass
that our prisoners did hear their cries, which
caused them to take courage; and
they did rise up in rebellion against us.

ALM 57:33 And it came to pass
because of their rebellion we did cause that our
swords should come upon them.
And it came to pass that they did in a body run
upon our swords, in the which,
the greater number of them were slain; and the
remainder of them broke through
and fled from us.

ALM 57:34 And behold, when they had fled and we could not
overtake them, we
took our march with speed towards the city Cumeni; and
behold, we did arrive in
time that we might assist our brethren in preserving
the city.

ALM 57:35 And behold, we are again delivered out of the hands of our
enemies.
And blessed is the name of our God; for behold, it is he that has
delivered us;
yea, that has done this great thing for us.

ALM 57:36 Now it
came to pass that when I, Helaman, had heard these words of
Gid, I was filled
with exceeding joy because of the goodness of God in
preserving us, that we
might not all perish; yea, and I trust that the souls of
them who have been
slain have entered into the rest of their God.

ALM 58:0 Helaman's epistle
concluded--Nephite operations before Manti--A
Lamanite sortie--Gid and Teomner
capture the city--Enemy withdraws.

ALM 58:1 And behold, now it came to pass
that our next object was to obtain the
city of Manti; but behold, there was no
way that we could lead them out of the
city by our small bands. For behold,
they remembered that which we had hitherto
done; therefore we could not decoy
them away from their strongholds.

ALM 58:2 And they were so much more numerous
than was our army that we durst
not go forth and attack them in their
strongholds.

ALM 58:3 Yea, and it became expedient that we should employ our
men to the
maintaining those parts of the land which we had regained of our
possessions;
therefore it became expedient that we should wait, that we might
receive more
strength from the land of Zarahemla and also a new supply of
provisions.

ALM 58:4 And it came to pass that I thus did send an embassy to
the governor of
our land, to acquaint him concerning the affairs of our people.
And it came to
pass that we did wait to receive provisions and strength from
the land of
Zarahemla.

ALM 58:5 But behold, this did profit us but little; for
the Lamanites were also
receiving great strength from day to day, and also many
provisions; and thus
were our circumstances at this period of time.

ALM 58:6
And the Lamanites were sallying forth against us from time to time,
resolving
by stratagem to destroy us; nevertheless we could not come to battle
with them,
because of their retreats and their strongholds.

ALM 58:7 And it came to pass
that we did wait in these difficult circumstances
for the space of many months,
even until we were about to perish for the want
of food.

ALM 58:8 But it came
to pass that we did receive food, which was guarded to us
by an army of two
thousand men to our assistance; and this is all the
assistance which we did
receive, to defend ourselves and our country from
falling into the hands of our
enemies, yea, to contend with an enemy which was
innumerable.

ALM 58:9 And now
the cause of these our embarrassments, or the cause why they
did not send more
strength unto us, we knew not; therefore we were grieved and
also filled with
fear, lest by any means the judgments of God should come upon
our land, to our
overthrow and utter destruction.

ALM 58:10 Therefore we did pour out our souls
in prayer to God, that he would
strengthen us and deliver us out of the hands
of our enemies, yea, and also
give us strength that we might retain our cities,
and our lands, and our
possessions, for the support of our people.

ALM 58:11
Yea, and it came to pass that the Lord our God did visit us with
assurances
that he would deliver us; yea, insomuch that he did speak peace to
our souls,
and did grant unto us great faith, and did cause us that we should
hope for our
deliverance in him.

ALM 58:12 And we did take courage with our small force
which we had received,
and were fixed with a determination to conquer our
enemies, and to maintain our
lands, and our possessions, and our wives, and our
children, and the cause of
our liberty.

ALM 58:13 And thus we did go forth
with all our might against the Lamanites,
who were in the city of Manti; and we
did pitch our tents by the wilderness
side, which was near to the city.

ALM
58:14 And it came to pass that on the morrow, that when the Lamanites saw
that
we were in the borders by the wilderness which was near the city, that
they
sent out their spies round about us that they might discover the number
and the
strength of our army.

ALM 58:15 And it came to pass that when they saw that we
were not strong,
according to our numbers, and fearing that we should cut them
off from their
support except they should come out to battle against us and
kill us, and also
supposing that they could easily destroy us with their
numerous hosts,
therefore they began to make preparations to come out against
us to battle.

ALM 58:16 And when we saw that they were making preparations to
come out
against us, behold, I caused that Gid, with a small number of men,
should
secrete himself in the wilderness, and also that Teomner and a small
number of
men should secrete themselves also in the wilderness.

ALM 58:17 Now
Gid and his men were on the right and the others on the left; and
when they had
thus secreted themselves, behold, I remained, with the remainder
of my army, in
that same place where we had first pitched our tents against the
time that the
Lamanites should come out to battle.

ALM 58:18 And it came to pass that the
Lamanites did come out with their
numerous army against us. And when they had
come and were about to fall upon us
with the sword, I caused that my men, those
who were with me, should retreat
into the wilderness.

ALM 58:19 And it came to
pass that the Lamanites did follow after us with great
speed, for they were
exceedingly desirous to overtake us that they might slay
us; therefore they did
follow us into the wilderness; and we did pass by in the
midst of Gid and
Teomner, insomuch that they were not discovered by the
Lamanites.

ALM 58:20
And it came to pass that when the Lamanites had passed by, or when
the army had
passed by, Gid and Teomner did rise up from their secret places,
and did cut
off the spies of the Lamanites that they should not return to the
city.

ALM
58:21 And it came to pass that when they had cut them off, they ran to the
city
and fell upon the guards who were left to guard the city, insomuch that
they
did destroy them and did take possession of the city.

ALM 58:22 Now this was
done because the Lamanites did suffer their whole army,
save a few guards only,
to be led away into the wilderness.

ALM 58:23 And it came to pass that Gid and
Teomner by this means had obtained
possession of their strongholds. And it came
to pass that we took our course,
after having traveled much in the wilderness
towards the land of Zarahemla.

ALM 58:24 And when the Lamanites saw that they
were marching towards the land
of Zarahemla, they were exceedingly afraid, lest
there was a plan laid to lead
them on to destruction; therefore they began to
retreat into the wilderness
again, yea, even back by the same way which they
had come.

ALM 58:25 And behold, it was night and they did pitch their tents,
for the
chief captains of the Lamanites had supposed that the Nephites were
weary
because of their march; and supposing that they had driven their whole
army
therefore they took no thought concerning the city of Manti.

ALM 58:26
Now it came to pass that when it was night, I caused that my men
should not
sleep, but that they should march forward by another way towards the
land of
Manti.

ALM 58:27 And because of this our march in the night-time, behold, on
the
morrow we were beyond the Lamanites, insomuch that we did arrive before
them at
the city of Manti.

ALM 58:28 And thus it came to pass, that by this
stratagem we did take
possession of the city of Manti without the shedding of
blood.

ALM 58:29 And it came to pass that when the armies of the Lamanites did
arrive
near the city, and saw that we were prepared to meet them, they were
astonished
exceedingly and struck with great fear, insomuch that they did flee
into the
wilderness.

ALM 58:30 Yea, and it came to pass that the armies of the
Lamanites did flee
out of all this quarter of the land. But behold, they have
carried with them
many women and children out of the land.

ALM 58:31 And those
cities which had been taken by the Lamanites, all of them
are at this period of
time in our possession; and our fathers and our women and
our children are
returning to their homes, all save it be those who have been
taken prisoners
and carried off by the Lamanites.

ALM 58:32 But behold, our armies are small
to maintain so great a number of
cities and so great possessions.

ALM 58:33
But behold, we trust in our God who has given us victory over those
lands,
insomuch that we have obtained those cities and those lands, which were
our
own.

ALM 58:34 Now we do not know the cause that the government does not grant
us
more strength; neither do those men who came up unto us know why we have
not
received greater strength.

ALM 58:35 Behold, we do not know but what ye
are unsuccessful, and ye have
drawn away the forces into that quarter of the
land; if so, we do not desire to
murmur.

ALM 58:36 And if it is not so,
behold, we fear that there is some faction in
the government, that they do not
send more men to our assistance; for we know
that they are more numerous than
that which they have sent.

ALM 58:37 But, behold, it mattereth not--we trust
God will deliver us,
not-withstanding the weakness of our armies, yea, and
deliver us out of the
hands of our enemies.

ALM 58:38 Behold, this is the
twenty and ninth year, in the latter end, and we
are in the possession of our
lands; and the Lamanites have fled to the land of
Nephi.

ALM 58:39 And those
sons of the people of Ammon, of whom I have so highly
spoken, are with me in
the city of Manti; and the Lord has supported them, yea,
and kept them from
falling by the sword, insomuch that even one soul has not
been slain.

ALM
58:40 But behold, they have received many wounds; nevertheless they stand
fast
in that liberty where-with God has made them free; and they are strict to

remember the Lord their God from day to day; yea, they do observe to keep his

statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments continually; and their faith

is strong in the prophecies concerning that which is to come.

ALM 58:41 And
now, my beloved brother, Moroni, may the Lord our God, who has
redeemed us and
made us free, keep you continually in his presence; yea, and
may he favor this
people, even that ye may have success in obtaining the
possession of all that
which the Lamanites have taken from us, which was for
our support. And now,
behold, I close mine epistle. I am Helaman, the son of
Alma.

ALM 59:0 Moroni
writes to Pahoran, asking reenforcements to Helaman--City of
Nephihah taken by
Lamanites--Moroni's anger at seeming indifference of the
government.

ALM 59:1
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year of the reign of the judges
over the
people of Nephi, after Moroni had received and had read Helaman's
epistle, he
was exceedingly rejoiced because of the welfare, yea, the exceeding
success
which Helaman had had, in obtaining those lands which were lost.

ALM 59:2 Yea,
and he did make it known unto all his people, in all the land
round about in
that part where he was, that they might rejoice also.

ALM 59:3 And it came to
pass that he immediately sent an epistle to Pahoran,
desiring that he should
cause men to be gathered together to strengthen
Helaman, or the armies of
Helaman, insomuch that he might with ease maintain
that part of the land which
he had been so miraculously prospered in regaining.

ALM 59:4 And it came to
pass when Moroni had sent this epistle to the land of
Zarahemla, he began again
to lay a plan that he might obtain the remainder of
those possessions and
cities which the Lamanites had taken from them.

ALM 59:5 And it came to pass
that while Moroni was thus making preparations to
go against the Lamanites to
battle, behold, the people of Nephihah, who were
gathered together from the
city of Moroni and the city of Lehi and the city of
Morianton, were attacked by
the Lamanites.

ALM 59:6 Yea, even those who had been compelled to flee from
the land of Manti,
and from the land round about, had come over and joined the
Lamanites in this
part of the land.

ALM 59:7 And thus being exceedingly
numerous, yea, and receiving strength from
day to day, by the command of
Ammoron they came forth against the people of
Nephihah, and they did begin to
slay them with an exceedingly great slaughter.

ALM 59:8 And their armies were
so numerous that the remainder of the people of
Nephihah were obliged to flee
before them; and they came even and joined the
army of Moroni.

ALM 59:9 And
now as Moroni had supposed that there should be men sent to the
city of
Nephihah, to the assistance of the people to maintain that city, and
knowing
that it was easier to keep the city from falling into the hands of the

Lamanites than to retake it from them, he supposed that they would easily

maintain that city.

ALM 59:10 Therefore he retained all his force to maintain
those places which he
had recovered.

ALM 59:11 And now, when Moroni saw that
the city of Nephihah was lost he was
exceedingly sorrowful, and began to doubt,
because of the wickedness of the
people, whether they should not fall into the
hands of their brethren.

ALM 59:12 Now this was the case with all his chief
captains. They doubted and
marveled also because of the wickedness of the
people, and this because of the
success of the Lamanites over them.

ALM 59:13
And it came to pass that Moroni was angry with the government,
because of their
indifference concerning the freedom of their country.

ALM 60:0 Moroni's second
epistle to Pahoran--Complains of neglect--Demands
immediate help on peril of
reprisal.

ALM 60:1 And it came to pass that he wrote again to the governor of
the land,
who was Pahoran, and these are the words which he wrote, saying:
Behold, I
direct mine epistle to Pahoran, in the city of Zarahemla, who is the
chief
judge and the governor over the land, and also to all those who have
been
chosen by this people to govern and manage the affairs of this war.

ALM
60:2 For behold, I have somewhat to say unto them by the way of
condemnation;
for behold, ye yourselves know that ye have been appointed to
gather together
men, and arm them with swords, and with cimeters, and all
manner of weapons of
war of every kind, and send forth against the Lamanites,
in whatsoever parts
they should come into our land.

ALM 60:3 And now behold, I say unto you that
myself, and also my men, and also
Helaman and his men, have suffered
exceedingly great sufferings; yea, even
hunger, thirst, and fatigue, and all
manner of afflictions of every kind.

ALM 60:4 But behold, were this all we had
suffered we would not murmur nor
complain.

ALM 60:5 But behold, great has been
the slaughter among our people; yea,
thousands have fallen by the sword, while
it might have otherwise been if ye
had rendered unto our armies sufficient
strength and succor for them. Yea,
great has been your neglect towards us.

ALM
60:6 And now behold, we desire to know the cause of this exceedingly great

neglect; yea, we desire to know the cause of your thoughtless state.

ALM 60:7
Can you think to sit upon your thrones in a state of thoughtless
stupor, while
your enemies are spreading the work of death around you? Yea,
while they are
murdering thousands of your brethren--

ALM 60:8 Yea, even they who have looked
up to you for protection, yea, have
placed you in a situation that ye might
have succored them, yea, ye might have
sent armies unto them, to have
strengthened them, and have saved thousands of
them from falling by the sword.

ALM 60:9 But behold, this is not all--ye have withheld your provisions from

them, insomuch that many have fought and bled out their lives because of their

great desires which they had for the welfare of this people; yea, and this
they
have done when they were about to perish with hunger, because of your

exceedingly great neglect towards them.

ALM 60:10 And now, my beloved
brethren--for ye ought to be beloved; yea, and ye
ought to have stirred
yourselves more diligently for the welfare and the
freedom of this people; but
behold, ye have neglected them insomuch that the
blood of thousands shall come
upon your heads for vengeance; yea, for known
unto God were all their cries,
and all their sufferings--

ALM 60:11 Behold, could ye suppose that ye could
sit upon your thrones, and
because of the exceeding goodness of God ye could do
nothing and he would
deliver you? Behold, if ye have supposed this ye have
supposed in vain.

ALM 60:12 Do ye suppose that, because so many of your
brethren have been killed
it is because of their wickedness? I say unto you, if
ye have supposed this ye
have supposed in vain; for I say unto you, there are
many who have fallen by
the sword; and behold it is to your condemnation;

ALM
60:13 For the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that his justice and

judgment may come upon the wicked; therefore ye need not suppose that the

righteous are lost because they are slain; but behold, they do enter into the

rest of the Lord their God.

ALM 60:14 And now behold, I say unto you, I fear
exceedingly that the judgments
of God will come upon this people, because of
their exceeding slothfulness,
yea, even the slothfulness of our government, and
their exceedingly great
neglect towards their brethren, yea, towards those who
have been slain.

ALM 60:15 For were it not for the wickedness which first
commenced at our head,
we could have withstood our enemies that they could have
gained no power over
us.

ALM 60:16 Yea, had it not been for the war which
broke out among ourselves;
yea, were it not for these king-men, who caused so
much bloodshed among
ourselves; yea, at the time we were contending among
ourselves, if we had
united our strength as we hitherto have done; yea, had it
not been for the
desire of power and authority which those king-men had over
us; had they been
true to the cause of our freedom, and united with us, and
gone forth against
our enemies, instead of taking up their swords against us,
which was the cause
of so much bloodshed among ourselves; yea, if we had gone
forth against them in
the strength of the Lord, we should have dispersed our
enemies, for it would
have been done, according to the fulfilling of his word.

ALM 60:17 But behold, now the Lamanites are coming upon us, taking possession

of our lands, and they are murdering our people with the sword, yea, our women

and our children, and also carrying them away captive, causing them that they

should suffer all manner of afflictions, and this because of the great

wickedness of those who are seeking for power and authority, yea, even those

king-men.

ALM 60:18 But why should I say much concerning this matter? For we
know not but
what ye yourselves are seeking for authority. We know not but what
ye are also
traitors to your country.

ALM 60:19 Or is it that ye have
neglected us because ye are in the heart of our
country and ye are surrounded
by security, that ye do not cause food to be sent
unto us, and also men to
strengthen our armies?

ALM 60:20 Have ye forgotten the commandments of the
Lord your God? Yea, have ye
forgotten the captivity of our fathers? Have ye
forgotten the many times we
have been delivered out of the hands of our
enemies?

ALM 60:21 Or do ye suppose that the Lord will still deliver us, while
we sit
upon our thrones and do not make use of the means which the Lord has
provided
for us?

ALM 60:22 Yea, will ye sit in idleness while ye are
surrounded with thousands
of those, yea, and tens of thousands, who do also sit
in idleness, while there
are thousands round about in the borders of the land
who are falling by the
sword, yea, wounded and bleeding?

ALM 60:23 Do ye
suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless while ye sit
still and behold
these things? Behold I say unto you, Nay. Now I would that ye
should remember
that God has said that the inward vessel shall be cleansed
first, and then
shall the outer vessel be cleansed also.

ALM 60:24 And now, except ye do
repent of that which ye have done, and begin to
be up and doing, and send forth
food and men unto us, and also unto Helaman,
that he may support those parts of
our country which he has regained, and that
we may also recover the remainder
of our possessions in these parts, behold it
will be expedient that we contend
no more with the Lamanites until we have
first cleansed our inward vessel, yea,
even the great head of our government.

ALM 60:25 And except ye grant mine
epistle, and come out and show unto me a
true spirit of freedom, and strive to
strengthen and fortify our armies, and
grant unto them food for their support,
behold I will leave a part of my
freemen to maintain this part of our land, and
I will leave the strength and
the blessings of God upon them, that none other
power can operate against
them--

ALM 60:26 And this because of their exceeding
faith, and their patience in
their tribulations--

ALM 60:27 And I will come
unto you, and if there be any among you that has a
desire for freedom, yea, if
there be even a spark of freedom remaining, behold
I will stir up insurrections
among you, even until those who have desires to
usurp power and authority shall
become extinct.

ALM 60:28 Yea, behold I do not fear your power nor your
authority, but it is my
God whom I fear; and it is according to his
commandments that I do take my
sword to defend the cause of my country, and it
is because of your iniquity
that we have suffered so much loss.

ALM 60:29
Behold it is time, yea, the time is now at hand, that except ye do
bestir
yourselves in the defence of your country and your little ones, the
sword of
justice doth hang over you; yea, and it shall fall upon you and visit
you even
to your utter destruction.

ALM 60:30 Behold, I wait for assistance from you;
and, except ye do administer
unto our relief, behold, I come unto you, even in
the land of Zarahemla, and
smite you with the sword, insomuch that ye can have
no more power to impede the
progress of this people in the cause of our
freedom.

ALM 60:31 For behold, the Lord will not suffer that ye shall live and
wax
strong in your iniquities to destroy his righteous people.

ALM 60:32
Behold, can you suppose that the Lord will spare you and come out in
judgment
against the Lamanites, when it is the tradition of their fathers that
has
caused their hatred, yea, and it has been redoubled by those who have
dissented
from us, while your iniquity is for the cause of your love of glory
and the
vain things of the world?

ALM 60:33 Ye know that ye do transgress the laws of
God, and ye do know that ye
do trample them under your feet. Behold, the Lord
saith unto me: If those whom
ye have appointed your governors do not repent of
their sins and iniquities, ye
shall go up to battle against them.

ALM 60:34
And now behold, I, Moroni, am constrained, according to the covenant
which I
have made to keep the commandments of my God; therefore I would that ye
should
adhere to the word of God, and send speedily unto me of your provisions
and of
your men, and also to Helaman.

ALM 60:35 And behold, if ye will not do this I
come unto you speedily; for
behold, God will not suffer that we should perish
with hunger; therefore he
will give unto us of your food, even if it must be by
the sword. Now see that
ye fulfil the word of God.

ALM 60:36 Behold, I am
Moroni, your chief captain. I seek not for power, but to
pull it down. I seek
not for honor of the world, but for the glory of my God,
and the freedom and
welfare of my country. And thus I close mine epistle.

ALM 61:0 Pahoran's
patriotic reply--He exonerates himself and the
freemen--Nephite state
tottering--Governor appeals for military aid against
rebels.

ALM 61:1 Behold,
now it came to pass that soon after Moroni had sent his
epistle unto the chief
governor, he received an epistle from Pahoran, the chief
governor. And these
are the words which he received:

ALM 61:2 I, Pahoran, who am the chief
governor of this land, do send these
words unto Moroni, the chief captain over
the army. Behold, I say unto you,
Moroni, that I do not joy in your great
afflictions, yea, it grieves my soul.

ALM 61:3 But behold, there are those who
do joy in your afflictions, yea,
insomuch that they have risen up in rebellion
against me, and also those of my
people who are freemen, yea, and those who
have risen up are exceedingly
numerous.

ALM 61:4 And it is those who have
sought to take away the judgment-seat from me
that have been the cause of this
great iniquity; for they have used great
flattery, and they have led away the
hearts of many people, which will be the
cause of sore affliction among us;
they have withheld our provisions, and have
daunted our freemen that they have
not come unto you.

ALM 61:5 And behold, they have driven me out before them,
and I have fled to
the land of Gideon, with as many men as it were possible
that I could get.

ALM 61:6 And behold, I have sent a proclamation throughout
this part of the
land; and behold, they are flocking to us daily, to their
arms, in the defence
of their country and their freedom, and to avenge our
wrongs.

ALM 61:7 And they have come unto us, insomuch that those who have
risen up in
rebellion against us are set at defiance, yea, insomuch that they
do fear us
and durst not come out against us to battle.

ALM 61:8 They have got
possession of the land, or the city, of Zarahemla; they
have appointed a king
over them, and he hath written unto the king of the
Lamanites, in the which he
hath joined an alliance with him; in the which
alliance he hath agreed to
maintain the city of Zarahemla, which maintenance he
supposeth will enable the
Lamanites to conquer the remainder of the land, and
he shall be placed king
over this people when they shall be conquered under the
Lamanites.

ALM 61:9
And now, in your epistle you have censured me, but it mattereth not; I
am not
angry, but do rejoice in the greatness of your heart. I, Pahoran, do not
seek
for power, save only to retain my judgment-seat that I may preserve the
rights
and the liberty of my people. My soul standeth fast in that liberty in
the
which God hath made us free.

ALM 61:10 And now, behold, we will resist
wickedness even unto bloodshed. We
would not shed the blood of the Lamanites if
they would stay in their own land.

ALM 61:11 We would not shed the blood of
our brethren if they would not rise up
in rebellion and take the sword against
us.

ALM 61:12 We would subject ourselves to the yoke of bondage if it were

requisite with the justice of God, or if he should command us so to do.

ALM
61:13 But behold he doth not command us that we shall subject ourselves to
our
enemies, but that we should put our trust in him, and he will deliver us.

ALM
61:14 Therefore, my beloved brother, Moroni, let us resist evil, and
whatsoever
evil we cannot resist with our words, yea, such as rebellions and
dissensions,
let us resist them with our swords, that we may retain our
freedom, that we may
rejoice in the great privilege of our church, and in the
cause of our Redeemer
and our God.

ALM 61:15 Therefore, come unto me speedily with a few of your
men, and leave
the remainder in the charge of Lehi and Teancum; give unto them
power to
conduct the war in that part of the land, according to the Spirit of
God, which
is also the spirit of freedom which is in them.

ALM 61:16 Behold I
have sent a few provisions unto them, that they may not
perish until ye can
come unto me.

ALM 61:17 Gather together whatsoever force ye can upon your
march hither, and
we will go speedily against those dissenters, in the strength
of our God
according to the faith which is in us.

ALM 61:18 And we will take
possession of the city of Zarahemla, that we may
obtain more food to send forth
unto Lehi and Teancum; yea, we will go forth
against them in the strength of
the Lord, and we will put an end to this great
iniquity.

ALM 61:19 And now,
Moroni, I do joy in receiving your epistle, for I was
somewhat worried
concerning what we should do, whether it should be just in us
to go against our
brethren.

ALM 61:20 But ye have said, except they repent the Lord hath
commanded you that
ye should go against them.

ALM 61:21 See that ye strengthen
Lehi and Teancum in the Lord; tell them to
fear not, for God will deliver them,
yea, and also all those who stand fast in
that liberty wherewith God hath made
them free. And now I close mine epistle to
my beloved brother, Moroni.

ALM
62:0 Moroni marches to relief of Pahoran--Zarahemla recaptured from the

rebels--Help sent to Helaman, Lehi, and Teancum--Lamanites concentrate in the

land of Moroni--Teancum slays Ammoron, at cost of his own life--Lamanites

driven out of the land.

ALM 62:1 And now it came to pass that when Moroni had
received this epistle his
heart did take courage, and was filled with
exceedingly great joy because of
the faithfulness of Pahoran, that he was not
also a traitor to the freedom and
cause of his country.

ALM 62:2 But he did
also mourn exceedingly because of the iniquity of those who
had driven Pahoran
from the judgment-seat, yea, in fine because of those who
had rebelled against
their country and also their God.

ALM 62:3 And it came to pass that Moroni
took a small number of men, according
to the desire of Pahoran, and gave Lehi
and Teancum command over the remainder
of his army, and took his march towards
the land of Gideon.

ALM 62:4 And he did raise the standard of liberty in
whatsoever place he did
enter, and gained whatsoever force he could in all his
march towards the land
of Gideon.

ALM 62:5 And it came to pass that thousands
did flock unto his standard, and
did take up their swords in the defence of
their freedom, that they might not
come into bondage.

ALM 62:6 And thus, when
Moroni had gathered together whatsoever men he could in
all his march, he came
to the land of Gideon; and uniting his forces with those
of Pahoran they became
exceedingly strong, even stronger than the men of
Pachus, who was the king of
those dissenters who had driven the freemen out of
the land of Zarahemla and
had taken possession of the land.

ALM 62:7 And it came to pass that Moroni and
Pahoran went down with their
armies into the land of Zarahemla, and went forth
against the city, and did
meet the men of Pachus, insomuch that they did come
to battle.

ALM 62:8 And behold, Pachus was slain and his men were taken
prisoners, and
Pahoran was restored to his judgment-seat.

ALM 62:9 And the men
of Pachus received their trial, according to the law, and
also those king-men
who had been taken and cast into prison; and they were
executed according to
the law; yea, those men of Pachus and those king-men,
whosoever would not take
up arms in the defence of their country, but would
fight against it, were put
to death.

ALM 62:10 And thus it became expedient that this law should be
strictly
observed for the safety of their country; yea, and whosoever was found
denying
their freedom was speedily executed according to the law.

ALM 62:11
And thus ended the thirtieth year of the reign of the judges over the
people of
Nephi; Moroni and Pahoran having restored peace to the land of
Zarahemla, among
their own people, having inflicted death upon all those who
were not true to
the cause of freedom.

ALM 62:12 And it came to pass in the commencement of the
thirty and first year
of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi,
Moroni immediately caused
that provisions should be sent, and also an army of
six thousand men should be
sent unto Helaman, to assist him in preserving that
part of the land.

ALM 62:13 And he also caused that an army of six thousand
men, with a
sufficient quantity of food, should be sent to the armies of Lehi
and Teancum.
And it came to pass that this was done to fortify the land against
the
Lamanites.

ALM 62:14 And it came to pass that Moroni and Pahoran, leaving
a large body of
men in the land of Zarahemla, took their march with a large
body of men towards
the land of Nephihah, being determined to overthrow the
Lamanites in that city.

ALM 62:15 And it came to pass that as they were
marching towards the land, they
took a large body of men of the Lamanites, and
slew many of them, and took
their provisions and their weapons of war.

ALM
62:16 And it came to pass after they had taken them, they caused them to
enter
into a covenant that they would no more take up their weapons of war
against
the Nephites.

ALM 62:17 And when they had entered into this covenant they sent
them to dwell
with the people of Ammon, and they were in number about four
thousand who had
not been slain.

ALM 62:18 And it came to pass that when they
had sent them away they pursued
their march towards the land of Nephihah. And
it came to pass that when they
had come to the city of Nephihah, they did pitch
their tents in the plains of
Nephihah, which is near the city of Nephihah.

ALM
62:19 Now Moroni was desirous that the Lamanites should come out to battle

against them, upon the plains; but the Lamanites, knowing of their exceedingly

great courage, and beholding the greatness of their numbers, therefore they

durst not come out against them; therefore they did not come to battle in that

day.

ALM 62:20 And when the night came, Moroni went forth in the darkness of
the
night, and came upon the top of the wall to spy out in what part of the
city
the Lamanites did camp with their army.

ALM 62:21 And it came to pass
that they were on the east, by the entrance; and
they were all asleep. And now
Moroni returned to his army, and caused that they
should prepare in haste
strong cords and ladders, to be let down from the top
of the wall into the
inner part of the wall.

ALM 62:22 And it came to pass that Moroni caused that
his men should march
forth and come upon the top of the wall, and let
themselves down into that part
of the city, yea, even on the west, where the
Lamanites did not camp with their
armies.

ALM 62:23 And it came to pass that
they were all let down into the city by
night, by the means of their strong
cords and their ladders; thus when the
morning came they were all within the
walls of the city.

ALM 62:24 And now, when the Lamanites awoke and saw that
the armies of Moroni
were within the walls, they were affrighted exceedingly,
insomuch that they did
flee out by the pass.

ALM 62:25 And now when Moroni saw
that they were fleeing before him, he did
cause that his men should march forth
against them, and slew many, and
surrounded many others, and took them
prisoners; and the remainder of them fled
into the land of Moroni, which was in
the borders by the seashore.

ALM 62:26 Thus had Moroni and Pahoran obtained
the possession of the city of
Nephihah without the loss of one soul; and there
were many of the Lamanites who
were slain.

ALM 62:27 Now it came to pass that
many of the Lamanites that were prisoners
were desirous to join the people of
Ammon and become a free people.

ALM 62:28 And it came to pass that as many as
were desirous, unto them it was
granted according to their desires.

ALM 62:29
Therefore, all the prisoners of the Lamanites did join the people of
Ammon, and
did begin to labor exceedingly, tilling the ground, raising all
manner of
grain, and flocks and herds of every kind; and thus were the Nephites
relieved
from a great burden; yea, insomuch that they were relieved from all
the
prisoners of the Lamanites.

ALM 62:30 Now it came to pass that Moroni, after
he had obtained possession of
the city of Nephihah, having taken many
prisoners, which did reduce the armies
of the Lamanites exceedingly, and having
regained many of the Nephites who had
been taken prisoners, which did
strengthen the army of Moroni exceedingly;
therefore Moroni went forth from the
land of Nephihah to the land of Lehi.

ALM 62:31 And it came to pass that when
the Lamanites saw that Moroni was
coming against them, they were again
frightened and fled before the army of
Moroni.

ALM 62:32 And it came to pass
that Moroni and his army did pursue them from
city to city, until they were met
by Lehi and Teancum; and the Lamanites fled
from Lehi and Teancum, even down
upon the borders by the seashore, until they
came to the land of Moroni.

ALM
62:33 And the armies of the Lamanites were all gathered together, insomuch
that
they were all in one body in the land of Moroni. Now Ammoron, the king of
the
Lamanites, was also with them.

ALM 62:34 And it came to pass that Moroni and
Lehi and Teancum did encamp with
their armies round about in the borders of the
land of Moroni, insomuch that
the Lamanites were encircled about in the borders
by the wilderness on the
south, and in the borders by the wilderness on the
east.

ALM 62:35 And thus they did encamp for the night. For behold, the
Nephites and
the Lamanites also were weary because of the greatness of the
march; therefore
they did not resolve upon any stratagem in the night-time,
save it were
Teancum; for he was exceedingly angry with Ammoron, insomuch that
he considered
that Ammoron, and Amalickiah his brother, had been the cause of
this great and
lasting war between them and the Lamanites, which had been the
cause of so much
war and bloodshed, yea, and so much famine.

ALM 62:36 And it
came to pass that Teancum in his anger did go forth into the
camp of the
Lamanites, and did let himself down over the walls of the city. And
he went
forth with a cord, from place to place, insomuch that he did find the
king; and
he did cast a javelin at him, which did pierce him near the heart.
But behold,
the king did awaken his servants before he died, insomuch that they
did pursue
Teancum, and slew him.

ALM 62:37 Now it came to pass that when Lehi and Moroni
knew that Teancum was
dead they were exceedingly sorrowful; for behold, he had
been a man who had
fought valiantly for his country, yea, a true friend to
liberty; and he had
suffered very many exceedingly sore afflictions. But
behold, he was dead, and
had gone the way of all the earth.

ALM 62:38 Now it
came to pass that Moroni marched forth on the morrow, and came
upon the
Lamanites, insomuch that they did slay them with a great slaughter;
and they
did drive them out of the land; and they did flee, even that they did
not
return at that time against the Nephites.

ALM 62:39 And thus ended the thirty
and first year of the reign of the judges
over the people of Nephi; and thus
they had had wars, and bloodsheds, and
famine, and affliction, for the space of
many years.

ALM 62:40 And there had been murders, and contentions, and
dissensions, and all
manner of iniquity among the people of Nephi; nevertheless
for the righteous'
sake, yea, because of the prayers of the righteous, they
were spared.

ALM 62:41 But behold, because of the exceedingly great length of
the war
between the Nephites and the Lamanites many had become hardened,
because of the
exceedingly great length of the war; and many were softened
because of their
afflictions, insomuch that they did humble themselves before
God, even in the
depth of humility.

ALM 62:42 And it came to pass that after
Moroni had fortified those parts of
the land which were most exposed to the
Lamanites, until they were sufficiently
strong, he returned to the city of
Zarahemla; and also Helaman returned to the
place of his inheritance; and there
was once more peace established among the
people of Nephi.

ALM 62:43 And
Moroni yielded up the command of his armies into the hands of his
son, whose
name was Moronihah; and he retired to his own house that he might
spend the
remainder of his days in peace.

ALM 62:44 And Pahoran did return to his
judgment-seat; and Helaman did take
upon him again to preach unto the people
the word of God; for because of so
many wars and contentions it had become
expedient that a regulation should be
made again in the church.

ALM 62:45
Therefore, Helaman and his brethren went forth, and did declare the
word of God
with much power unto the convincing of many people of their
wickedness, which
did cause them to repent of their sins and to be baptized
unto the Lord their
God.

ALM 62:46 And it came to pass that they did establish again the church of
God,
throughout all the land.

ALM 62:47 Yea, and regulations were made
concerning the law. And their judges,
and their chief judges were chosen.

ALM
62:48 And the people of Nephi began to prosper again in the land, and began
to
multiply and to wax exceedingly strong again in the land. And they began to

grow exceedingly rich.

ALM 62:49 But notwithstanding their riches, or their
strength, or their
prosperity, they were not lifted up in the pride of their
eyes; neither were
they slow to remember the Lord their God; but they did
humble themselves
exceedingly before him.

ALM 62:50 Yea, they did remember how
great things the Lord had done for them,
that he had delivered them from death,
and from bonds, and from prisons, and
from all manner of afflictions, and he
had delivered them out of the hands of
their enemies.

ALM 62:51 And they did
pray unto the Lord their God continually, insomuch that
the Lord did bless
them, according to his word, so that they did wax strong and
prosper in the
land.

ALM 62:52 And it came to pass that all these things were done. And
Helaman
died, in the thirty and fifth year of the reign of the judges over the
people
of Nephi.

ALM 63:0 Shiblon succeeds Helaman--Death of Moroni--Hagoth,
builder of
ships--Nephite voyages to the land northward--Helaman, son of
Helaman, keeps
the records--Moronihah defeats Lamanites--End of Alma's
account.

ALM 63:1 And it came to pass in the commencement of the thirty and
sixth year
of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, that Shiblon
took
possession of those sacred things which had been delivered unto Helaman
by
Alma.

ALM 63:2 And he was a just man, and he did walk uprightly before God;
and he
did observe to do good continually, to keep the commandments of the Lord
his
God; and also did his brother.

ALM 63:3 And it came to pass that Moroni
died also. And thus ended the thirty
and sixth year of the reign of the
judges.

ALM 63:4 And it came to pass that in the thirty and seventh year of
the reign
of the judges, there was a large company of men, even to the amount
of five
thousand and four hundred men, with their wives and their children,
departed
out of the land of Zarahemla into the land which was northward.

ALM
63:5 And it came to pass that Hagoth, he being an exceedingly curious man,

therefore he went forth and built him an exceedingly large ship, on the
borders
of the land Bountiful, by the land Desolation, and launched it forth
into the
west sea, by the narrow neck which led into the land northward.

ALM
63:6 And behold, there were many of the Nephites who did enter therein and
did
sail forth with much provisions, and also many women and children; and they

took their course northward. And thus ended the thirty and seventh year.

ALM
63:7 And in the thirty and eighth year, this man built other ships. And the

first ship did also return, and many more people did enter into it; and they

also took much provisions, and set out again to the land northward.

ALM 63:8
And it came to pass that they were never heard of more. And we suppose
that
they were drowned in the depths of the sea. And it came to pass that one
other
ship also did sail forth; and whither she did go we know not.

ALM 63:9 And it
came to pass that in this year there were many people who went
forth into the
land northward. And thus ended the thirty and eighth year.

ALM 63:10 And it
came to pass in the thirty and ninth year of the reign of the
judges, Shiblon
died also, and Corianton had gone forth to the land northward
in a ship, to
carry forth provisions unto the people who had gone forth into
that land.

ALM
63:11 Therefore it became expedient for Shiblon to confer those sacred
things,
before his death, upon the son of Helaman, who was called Helaman,
being called
after the name of his father.

ALM 63:12 Now behold, all those engravings which
were in the possession of
Helaman were written and sent forth among the
children of men throughout all
the land, save it were those parts which had
been commanded by Alma should not
go forth.

ALM 63:13 Nevertheless, these
things were to be kept sacred, and handed down
from one generation to another;
therefore, in this year, they had been
conferred upon Helaman, before the death
of Shiblon.

ALM 63:14 And it came to pass also in this year that there were
some dissenters
who had gone forth unto the Lamanites; and they were stirred up
again to anger
against the Nephites.

ALM 63:15 And also in this same year they
came down with a numerous army to war
against the people of Moronihah, or
against the army of Moronihah, in the which
they were beaten and driven back
again to their own lands, suffering great
loss.

ALM 63:16 And thus ended the
thirty and ninth year of the reign of the judges
over the people of Nephi.

ALM
63:17 And thus ended the account of Alma, and Helaman his son, and also

Shiblon, who was his son.

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