Category Archives: 1 Nephi

Sometimes the best way to understand what is going on in the Book of Mormon is to relate it to the history, religion, or culture of the Old Testament. That is certainly true of the beginning of First Nephi. What … Continue reading →

1 Nephi 1:4 … and in that same year there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed. We know so little about the Israelite religion before the Babylonian … Continue reading →

1 Nephi 1:7-11 7 And it came to pass that he returned to his own house at Jerusalem; and he cast himself upon his bed, being overcome with the Spirit and the things which he had seen. 8 And being … Continue reading →

1 Nephi 1:8 8. And being thus overcome with the Spirit, he was carried away in a vision, even that he saw the heavens open, and he thought he saw God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of … Continue reading →

1 Nephi 1:11 11 And they came down and went forth upon the face of the earth; and the first came and stood before my father, and gave unto him a book, and bade him that he should read. There … Continue reading →

1 Nephi 1:18-20 18 Therefore, I would that ye should know, that after the Lord had shown so many marvelous things unto my father, Lehi, yea, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, behold he went forth among the people, and began … Continue reading →