Tag: 1 Nephi

I have a feeling that Nephi would never have been convinced to kill Laban if he had not previously: I’m confident that if any of those steps had been skipped Nephi would have either considered that getting the plates wasn’t important enough to kill for or that there must be some other option to obtain…

It is interesting to think that when Lehi left Jerusalem he left large quantities of things that the world values (gold, silver, and precious things) and took just his family and provisions into the wilderness. Later the Lord sent his sons back to sweetie a specific spiritual record and one more family. It got me…

I keep getting reminded that the first book of Nephi was written many years after the events it records took place and that this is the second time Nephi wrote them down. He came into the making of the small plates knowing what would be covered in First Nephi. (Second Nephi is where he begins…

I wonder if Zoram felt a connection or responsibility for the brass plates. Was that the thing he was most passionate about in his role as keeper of the treasury in the house of Laban? It is entirely possible that he was not a free man in the household of Laban and he might even…

I just realized that what Nephi wrote about Lehi beginning to preach was not based on his own memory but rather on the record that Lehi had kept.

Nephi read the scriptures to his brothers and they were paying attention enough to all him questions after. This is proof that they were not always fighting against spiritual things.

It just occurred to me that the Jewish settlements being built in Palestinian lands are a fulfillment if the project that the children will be so numerous after having lost the first that they will say “the land is too small.”

Let’s pick “Zion” rather than “Jerusalem” here. Those who talk about Zion and claim to be working for the building up of Zion but who are not actually working for Zion—by their fruits will they be known. We should be aligned with those whose work builds up Zion, not those whose words claim to build…

I never really thought before if the fact that neighbor didn’t make any records before arriving at the promised land. Not only that but the record that finally made it to us was made even later than that.