Category: Scripture Notes

Those who would not call in the Lord and did not understand the words of King Benjamin when they were little children were hardened and refused to join the church. This is a phenomenon that we will witness time and time again throughout our lives. We must choose not to become hardened ourselves our we…

The story of the unification of the peoples of Mosiah, Alma, and Limhi does a contrast between the desire and value for unity and the strength and necessity of redundant parts of the whole. All the people unified under the banner of a single king and a single name. They also unified under a single…

Was Amulon conscious of the fact that in putting burdens upon Alma and his people and placing taskmasters over them he was fulfilling a prophecy that Abinadi had given in his presence years before?

It seems likely that Amulon represented himself to be associated with the Nephites in the land of Helam and got appointed to be their ruler because of his Lamanite wife. I don’t he got appointed to that position by claiming to be their enemy.

I never before considered the way that Gideon here Stace as a type of Christ, offering to save the people though his service under the direction of his king.

It was a great if the Lamanites which was greater than the danger they actually represented which led the people of Limhi to go three times to war and lose their lives when they could have been uncomfortable but safe from being killed if they had not listened to their fear.

When people choose to do wickedly there are consequences and those consequences sometimes fall upon people who weren’t part of the wickedness. This can be true even when those being wicked have no hostile intent. The priests of Noah were making no attempt to hurt the people of Limhi when they kidnapped the daughters of…

Noah had lost the trust of his people even before he had them flee from the Lamanites and leave their wives and children behind.

The fact that sons had been asking the priests of King Noah probably have him an advantage that Abinadi hadn’t enjoyed – he would have known the means by which Noah gathered information along his people. That knowledge probably allowed Alma to more effectively work in secret than Abinadi could have done. Eventually his movement…

As Abinadi was being burned to death he gave two prophecies. The first was that the seed of the priests of Noah would cause many other people to suffer death by fire because of their belief in Christ. (This happened among believing Lamanites.) The second was that Noah would be driven and hunted by his…