Scripture Study

Scripture Study
"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." - John 5:39

Friday, March 8, 2013

3 Nephi 4


Vs 1- What lands did the robbers begin to take possession of?
Vs 2- What was not in those lands?
Vs 3- Why could the robbers not exist in those lands?
Vs 4- How long could the Nephites subsist on the provisions they had reserved?
Vs 5- What did Giddianhi find it expedient to do?
Why?
Vs 6- What did they not dare to do?
Why?
What did Giddianhi command his armies to do?
Vs 7- What was the day they came to battle like?
What else was great and terrible?
Vs 8- What did the armies of the Nephites do when they saw the appearance of Giddianhi’s army?
Vs 9- What did the armies of Giddianhi do?
Why?
Vs 10- Who did the Nephites fear?
How did the Nephites receive the armies of Giddianhi?
Vs 11- What was the battle like?
Vs 12- Who won?
Vs 13- What did Gidgiddoni command his armies to do?
Who did he command them to spare?
Vs 14- What happened to Giddianhi?
Vs 15- Where did the Nephites return to?
Vs 16- What did the robbers do in the 21st year?
Why?
Vs 17- Who had they appointed to be their leader?
Vs 18- Why was it impossible for their siege to have any effect upon the Nephites?
Vs 19- What was the only substance the robbers had?
Where did they obtain it?
Vs 20- Why were they about to perish with hunger?
Vs 21- What did the Nephites do bay day and night?
Vs 22- What did the people or Zemnarihah desire?
Vs 23- What did Zemnarihah command his people to do?
Vs 24- When did Gidgiddoni send out his armies?
What did he have them do?
Vs 25- When the robbers began their march, where were they met by the Nephites?
Vs 26- Who else was cut off in their places of retreat?
Vs 27- What did thousands of them do?
What happened to the remainder of them?
Vs 28- What happened to their leader?
What did they do to the tree?
Vs 29- Who else will fall to the earth like the tree did?
Vs 30- Who will God protect? (Those who do what)
Vs 31- What did they break forth in doing?
Vs 32- What did they cry?
Vs 33- What were their hearts swollen with?
Why?
Why had God delivered them?

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

3 Nephi 3


Vs 1- Who was Lachoneus?
What did he receive?
Vs 2- What does he praise them for?
Vs 3- What does he say they are foolish in supposing?
What are his men waiting for?
Vs 4- What are their spirits like?
Why do they have an everlasting hatred against them?
Vs 5- Why has he written this epistle? (What does he say he feels for)
Vs 6- What does he desire Lachoneus to do rather than fight?
Vs 7- What else does he want them to yield up?
What does he want them to become acquainted with?
What does he want them to become?
Vs 8- What does he swear/promise them if they do this?
What does he swear/promise them he will do if they don’t do this?
Vs 9- What is his name?
What does he say the works of his secret society are like?
Vs 10- What does he want his people to recover?
Why did he say they have dissented away from them?
What did he threaten to do if they don’t deliver up their lands and possessions?
Vs 11- Why was Lachoneus astonished?
Who had really wronged the Gaddianton robbers?
Vs 12- What kind of a man was Lachoneus?
What was he not frightened by?
What did he cause his people to do?
Vs 13- What else did he ask his people to do?
Vs 14- What did he cause to be built?
What did he cause all his armies to do?
Vs 15- What did he tell them they needed to do in order to be delivered out of the hands of those Gadianton robbers?
Vs 16- What did his words cause them to feel?
What did they do?
Vs 17- What did Lachoneus appoint over the Nephite armies?
Why?
Vs 18- Who was the chief captain and commander?
Vs 19- What kind of men did they usually appoint for their chief captains?
What was Gidgiddoni?
Who else was a great prophet among them?
Vs 20- What did the people ask Gidgiddoni to do?
Vs 21- What was his answer?
Why?
What did he tell them to do?
What did he promise them the Lord would do if the did this?
Vs 22- What did they take with them to the appointed gathering place?
Vs 23- What lands were appointed as the gathering place?
Vs 24- Why did Lachoneus cause them to gather in the land southward?
Vs 25- What did they do?
What did they fear?
What did they pray that God would do?
Vs 26- Why were they sorrowful?
What did Gidgiddoni cause them to make?

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

3 Nephi 2


Vs 1- What did the people begin to forget?
What were they less astonished by?
What were their hearts and minds like?
Vs 2- Who did they think it was wrought by?
What did Satan again get possession of?
What did he lead them to believe?
Vs 3- What did they not believe?
What did Satan tempt them to do?
Vs 4-5 How many years had it been since Mosiah was king?
Vs 6- How many years had it been since Lehi left Jerusalem?
Vs 7- How many years had it been since the sign of Christ’s birth?
Vs 8- How did the Nephites begin to reckon their time?
Vs 9- Who could not be found in all the land?
Vs 10- What were the people like?
Vs 11- What had the Gadianton robbers become?
What did they do and spread?
What did it become expedient for the Nephites and Lamanites to do?
Vs 12- Why did they take up arms against those Gadianton robbers?
Vs 13- What did this war threaten the Nephites with?
Vs 14- Who were the Lamanites numbered with?
Vs 15- What was taken from them?
What did their skin become like?
Vs 16- What did their children become like?
What were they called?
Vs 17- What did the Nephites gain in the 14th year?
Vs 18- Why did the Gadianton robbers gain many advantages over the Nephites in the 15th year?
Vs 19- What hung over them?
Why?

3 Nephi 1


Vs 1- How many years had it been since Lehi left Jerusalem?
Who was the chief judge over the land?
Vs 2- Who had departed out of the land of Zarahemla?
Who did he give charge concerning the plates and records?
Vs 3- Where did he go?
Vs 4- What began to be fulfilled more fully?
What was wrought among the people?
Vs 5- What did some begin to say?
Vs 6- What did they begin to do?
What did they tell them was in vain?
Vs 7- What did they make throughout the land?
How did the people who believed feel?
Why?
Vs 8- What did they watch for?
Vs 9- What did the unbelievers set apart a day for?
Vs 10- How did Nephi feel when he saw this wickedness?
Vs 11- What did he go out and do?
Vs 12- How long did he cry unto the Lord?
Vs 13- When did the Lord tell him he would come?
Vs 14- Why will he come? (name 2 reasons)
When shall the sign be given?
Vs 15- Why were the people astonished?
Vs 16- What did those who had not believed do?
Why? (What did they know)
Vs 17- What else did they know?
Who was astonished?
What did they do?
Vs 18- Why did they begin to fear?
Vs 19- How did they know it was the day that the Lord should be born?
Vs 20- Whose words came to pass?
Vs 21- What appeared according to the word?
Vs 22- What did Satan send forth among the people?
Why?
What did most of the people do?
Vs 23- What did Nephi go forth and do among the people?
What did the people begin to have again?
Vs 24- What did a few begin to teach/prove?
Why did they err?
Vs 25- What were they soon convinced of?
What must be fulfilled first?
What did they confess?
Vs 26- What did the 92nd year bring unto the people?
Vs 27- Who dwelt in the mountains and infested the land?
Why couldn’t the people overpower them?
What did they do among the people?
Vs 28- How did they increase?
How did this cause the Nephites who remained in the land to feel?
Vs 29- Why did the Lamanites also sorrow?
How did the Zoramites lead their children away?
Vs 30- What did they begin to decrease in?
Why?

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Helaman 16


Vs 1- What did those who believed Samuel’s words do?
What did they desire?
Vs 2- What did those who did not believe his words do?
Why could they not hit him with their stones and arrows?
Vs 3- Why did many more believe?
Vs 4- What was Nephi doing?
Why was he doing these things?
Vs 5- What did he tell them of?
Why?
What did those who believed the words of Samuel come to do?
Vs 6- How many did not believe the words of Samuel?
What did they ask their captains to do?
Why did they think they could not hit him with their stones and arrows?
Vs 7- Where did he flee to?
What did he begin to do there?
Vs 8- Where was he never heard of more?
Vs 9- What year of the judges ended?
Vs 10- What were most of the people like?
Vs 11- What year was it still this same condition?
Vs 12- What did the people become more hardened in?
What did they do more and more of?
Vs 13- What was there in the 90th year of the judges?
What began to be fulfilled?
Vs 14- Who appeared unto men?
What did they declare?
Vs 15- What did both the Nephites and the Lamanites depend on?
Vs 16- What did they say they knew could not come to pass?
Vs 17- What did they do among themselves?
Vs 18- What did they say was not reasonable?
Vs 19- What did they want Christ to do?
Vs 20- Why did they say this tradition was handed down by their fathers?
Vs 21- What were they worried they would be if they depended on the words of the prophets?
Vs 22- What kinds of things did they imagine up in their hearts?
Why were they much disturbed?
What did he spread upon all the face of the land?
Why?
Vs 23- What did Satan get great hold upon?
Vs 24- What year of the judges ended?
Vs 25- What book is this the end of?
Whose record is it?

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Helaman 15


Vs 1- What shall happen to their houses if they don’t repent?
Vs 2- What shall happen to their women who are with child?
Vs 3- When hath the Lord chastened the people of Nephi?
Why hath he chastened them?
Vs 4- Why hath he hated the Lamanites?
How did salvation come unto them?
Vs 5- How many of them are in the path of their duty?
How do they walk?
What law do they keep?
Vs 6- What are they striving to do?
How are they striving to do it?
Vs 7- What have they come to the knowledge of?
What have they been led to believe?
What has faith and repentance brought unto them?
Vs 8- What are the converted Lamanites like?
Vs 9- What have they done with their weapons of war?
What do they fear to do?
Why will they suffer themselves to be slain by their enemies?
Vs 10- Why will the Lord bless them and prolong their days?
Vs 11- How long will he prolong their days?
Vs 12- When will the promises of the Lord be extended to the Lamanites?
What shall happen to them?
How shall the Lord be unto them?
Vs 13- What shall they be brought to again?
What shall they be numbered among?
Vs 14- Who shall it be better for if you don’t repent?
Vs 15- Why have they dwindled in unbelief?
What would they have been like if they had seen mighty works?
Vs 16- When shall they return again unto the Lord?
Vs 17- What will the Lord do to the Nephites if they don’t repent and obey him?

Friday, March 1, 2013

Helaman 14


Vs 1- What could not be written?
Vs 2- How long did he tell them it would be before the Son of God would come?
Who would he could to redeem?
Vs 3- What did he tell them would be a sign at the time of his coming?
Vs 4- What would the night not be?
Vs 5- What shall arise as another sign?
Vs 6- Where shall there be many signs and wonders?
Vs 7- What shall they feel and do?
Vs 8- Who shall have everlasting life?
Vs 9- Who commanded Samuel to come tell this to them?
What did he tell them to cry unto this people?
Vs 10- Why are they angry with him?
Vs 11- Why has he come upon the walls of this city? (What does he want them to know)
Vs 12- Why does he want them to know the signs of Christ’s coming?
Vs 13- What will they do if they believe in Christ?
How will they receive a remission of all their sins? (through what)
Vs 14- What else does he give them a sign of?
Vs 15- Why must he die?
What does his death bring to pass?
Where will men be brought to?
Vs 16- What death does the resurrection redeem mankind from?
Why were all men cut off from the presence of the Lord?
Vs 17- How does Christ’s resurrection redeem mankind? (What does it bring them back to)
Vs 18- What condition does it bring to pass?
Who will be hewn down and cast into the fire- a second spiritual death?
What will they be cut off from?
Vs 19- What does he tell them to do?
Why?
Vs 20- What shall the sign of Christ’s death be?
Vs 21- When shall their be thunder, lightning, and quaking?
What shall happen to the solid mass of rocks?
Vs 22- What shall they be like ever after?
Vs 23- What shall happen to the mountains and valleys?
Vs 24- What else shall be broken up?
Vs 25- What shall many graves do?
Who shall appear unto many?
Vs 26- How long shall their be thunder and lightning?
Vs 27- How long shall their be darkness covering the earth?
Vs 28- Why shall many see greater things?
Vs 29- Who will be saved?
What shall come upon those who will not believe?
Who will bring upon them their condemnation?
Vs 30- What has God given us and made us?
Vs 31- What does he let us choose?
If we do good, what will be restored unto us?
If we do evil, what will be restored unto us?