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When their spiritual leaders urge them not to do so, instead 2,000 of their sons—who had not sworn their parents' oath—mobilize for the war effort under the leadership of a prophet named Helaman. [7] The Book of Mormon calls these mobilized young men of the people of Ammon "stripling warriors" and "stripling Ammonites".
Depiction of a "Stripling Warrior", who according to the Book of Mormon was a member of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi ethnic group. According to the Book of Mormon, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies (/ ˈ æ n t aɪ ˈ n iː f aɪ ˈ l iː h aɪ z /) [1] [2] were a tribe of Lamanites formed around 90 BC in the Americas, after a significant religious conversion. [3]
Brady reveals that Ammon died because Ron refused to provide him with medical care, citing Ammon's own beliefs and abuse toward the brothers in the past. Flashbacks to the 19th-century recount Emma Smith's rejection of polygamy, Joseph Smith's killing, and Brigham Young's rise to lead the LDS Church.
In her 2019 book, “American Zion,” Betsy Gaines Quammen, an environmental historian, examines how the history of settlement in the West by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
Ammon 3 establishes a church in Ishmael. Aaron 3 is rejected by the people of Jerusalem. He and his companions are imprisoned in the land of Middoni. Ammon 3 and Lamoni journey to Middoni to free the prisoners. They meet Lamoni's father, king of all the Lamanites 2. Believing Ammon 3 has deceived his son, Lamoni's father tries to slay Ammon 3.
The belief that the Zoramites are the chosen people of God . Worship may occur only in a synagogue, and the poor are not allowed to enter (Alma 32:5, Alma 32:9). The church is combined with the state and has rulers, priests, and teachers .
First mentioned when people of Ammon, seeking protection from fellow Lamanites, resettled there about 76 BC (Alma 27:22-24). Because of the threat of war from the Zoramites in Antionum to the south, Ammonites were relocated to Melek about 73 BC. All references to Jershon come from this three- to four-year period.
Several scholars from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints theorize instead that the Amlicites did not disappear as they seem to after Alma 2. [5] J. Christopher Conkling says that Alma spends all of Alma 3, which gives background information on the Amlicites, introducing a problem that will affect the rest of the Book of Alma ...