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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.
Danish-American painter C. C. A. Christensen's 1890 Lehi Blessing His Posterity portrays Lehi with his family. [41] American artist George M. Ottinger's Arrival in the New World, also produced around 1890, is a scene of Lehi with Ishmael, Nephi, and family. [42] Teichert's Loading the Ship, created 1949–1951, shows a scene of Lehi's family. [43]
The people having loved Nephi exceedingly… were desirous to retain in remembrance his name. And whoso should reign in his stead were called by the people second Nephi, third Nephi, and so forth, according to the reigns of the kings; and thus they were called by the people, let them be of whatever name they would. —
The Jaredites (/ ˈ dʒ ær ə d aɪ t /) [1] are one of four peoples (along with the Nephites, Lamanites, and Mulekites) that the Latter-day Saints believe settled in ancient America. The Book of Mormon (mainly its Book of Ether) describes the Jaredites as the descendants of Jared and his brother, who lived at the time of the Tower of Babel ...
Lehi's other sons complain about the difficulty of the task, but Nephi accepts the task and proclaims, "I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them to accomplish the thing which he commandeth them."
Perhaps the first book of the Bible provides a clue. Antisemitism explained in the Bible The Book of Genesis in Chapter 26 illuminates a pattern that has repeated itself for literally thousands of ...
The concept of a Bible covered in the American flag, as well as a former president’s endorsement of a text Christians consider to be sacred, has raised concern among religious circles.
Nephi also mentions having sisters, though he does not give their names or birth orders. Little is known about Nephi's children. Religious scholar Grant Hardy suggests that all of Nephi's children may have been daughters at the time of passing on the record, or that his sons were influenced by Laman and Lemuel; his speculations are based on the fact that Nephi says he has children yet passes ...