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According to the Book of Mormon, Lehi (/ ˈ l iː h aɪ / LEE-hy) [1] was a prophet who lived in Jerusalem during the reign of King Zedekiah (approximately 600 BC). [2] In First Nephi, Lehi is rejected for preaching repentance and he leads his family, including Sariah, Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi, into the wilderness.
Lehi 1 comforts Sariah, who had feared for her sons. Lehi 1 sends Laman 1, Lemuel, Sam and Nephi 1 back to Jerusalem to persuade Ishmael 2 and his family to join them. The sons of Lehi 1 and the family of Ishmael 2 leave Jerusalem. Laman 1 and Lemuel and some of Ishmael 2 's children rebel. Nephi 1 persuades them to continue and they rejoin ...
In the narrative of the Book of Nephi, Nephi and his family leave Jerusalem around 600 B.C., [4] travel to the Red Sea, and journey three days farther into the wilderness, stopping in a valley by a river near the Red Sea. Lehi then sends four sons (Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi) back to Jerusalem to get the brass plates. After successfully ...
The Book of Judges relates that Lehi was the site of an encampment by a Philistine army, [2] and the subsequent engagement with the Israelite leader Samson. [3] This encounter is famous for Samsons' use of a donkey's jawbone as a club, [4] and the name Ramath Lehi means Jawbone Hill.
The Nephites are described as a group of people that descended from or were associated with Nephi, a son of the prophet Lehi, who left Jerusalem at the urging of God in about 600 BC and traveled with his family to the Western Hemisphere and arrived to the Americas in about 589 BC.
Nephi extracts an oath from Zoram that he will leave Jerusalem with them. Zoram and the brothers then return to the tent of their parents. [4] Laman and Lemuel conspire against Nephi (1948). Comic by John Philip Dalby. Lehi then sends Zoram and his sons to the "land of Jerusalem" to retrieve Ishmael and his family.
While Lehi had a vision and was commanded by the Lord to leave Jerusalem, Sariah had to leave behind her home and connections with no "personal witness" that it truly needed to happen, says Fronk. [16] She worries in 1 Nephi 5:2-9 that "her sons are no more."
Jerusalem becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Judah and, according to the Bible, for the first few decades even of a wider united kingdom of Judah and Israel, under kings belonging to the House of David. c. 1010 BCE: biblical King David attacks and captures Jerusalem. Jerusalem becomes City of David and capital of the United Kingdom of Israel ...