Alma 45-63
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Alma 45-63
● Alma's departure, 19th year (Chapter 45a)
- • Nephites rejoice and are devout because of their deliverance (45:1)
- • Alma requests that Heleman confirm his faith (45:2-8)
- • Alma's prophecy that Nephites will be destroyed around 400 AD (45:9-14)
- • Alma blesses his sons, the land, and the church, and departs, not heard of again (45:15-19)
● ___, 19th year (Chapter 45b-46)
- • Helaman regulates the church but is rejected by social elites that are flattered by Amalickiah (45:20-46:7)
- • thus we see: that people forget, that one man can cause great wickedness, and how liberty is attacked (46:8-10)
- • Moroni raises the title of liberty (46:11-27?)
- • Amalickiah flees, Moroni heads off his army (46:28?-33)
- • Moroni and Helaman regulate dissenters and the church, peace for four years (46:34-41)
● Amalickiah obtains the Lamanite kingdom (Chapter 47)
- • Amalickiah stirs up Lamanite king, given command of loyal troops to compel Lamanite army to invade Nephites (47:1-8)
- • Amalickiah delivers his troops into hand of Lehonti, becomes leader of entire army (47:9-19)
- • Amalickiah kills Lamanite king, blames the king's servants (47:29-31)
- • Amalickiah marries queen and becomes king of the Lamanites (47:32-36)
- • Amalickiah stirs up the Lamanites to anger against the Nephites, 19th year (48:1-6)
- • Moroni prepares Nephites with fortification, his philosophy of war, Helaman preaches (48:7-20 -25?)
- • invading Lamanite army is scared off from attacking Ammonihah (49:1-8 -13?)
- • Lamanite army is defeated at city of Noah (49:14-24)
- • Lamanite army reports its defeat to Amalickiah (49:25-29)
- • Moroni continues fortifying Nephite cities (50:1-6)
- • Nephites drive Lamanites out of east wilderness to secure east border (50:7-12)
- • Nephites build new cities on east to secure east border (50:13-16)
- • the Nephites are in prosperous and blessed circumstances, peace (50:17-24)
- • dispute between cities of Morianton and Lehi, Moroni stops people of Morianton fleeing (50:25-36)
- • Nephihah succeeded as chief judge by Pahoran (50:37-40)
- • Pahoran refuses to install a king, people vote support, Amalickiah invades, Moroni execute kingmen who will not defend, rest in prison, 25th year (51:1-21)
- • Amalickiah takes new cities built to secure east border (51:22-28)
- • Teancum halts Amalickiah at borders of Bountiful, sneaks into camp and kills Amalickiah (51:29-37)
- • Ammoron succeeds his brother Amalickiah, Lamanites retreat to conquered cities (52:1-4)
- • Teancum likewise fortifies his cities and retains prisoners for trade (52:5-10)
- • Ammoron attacks on west border, defended by Moroni (52:11-14)
- • Teancum abandons his planned assault on Mulek and joined by Moroni's army, 27th year (52:15-18)
- • Moroni, Teancum, and Lehi employ a ruse to capture city of Mulek, 28th year (52:19-40)
- • summary: with a ruse Moroni has beaten a large army, captured stronghold Mulek, and turned Bountiful into a stronghold (53:1-7)
- • West: Nephite intrigues allow Lamanites to capture several cities (53:8-9)
- • Helaman persuades people of Ammon to not break oath, he leads 2,000 stripling warriors to west border, end 28th year (53:10-23)
● Negotiating for and rescuing prisoners (Chapters 54-55)
- • Ammoron writes a letter offering to exchange prisoners (54:1-3)
- • Moroni's letter back to Ammoron (54:4-14)
- • Ammoron's reply (54:15-24)
- • Moroni determines to rescue prisoners without an exchange (55:1-3)
- • Moroni liberates Nephite prisoners with ruse of drunkenness (55:4-26)
- • Nephites again begin to e victorious over Lamanites (55:27-35)
● Helaman's account of his stripling warriors, written early 30th year (Chapters 56-58)
- • historical background (56:1-8)
- • Helaman's warriors join downtrodden army of Antipas in the west, not attacked, 26th year (56:9-20a)
- • once fortified, hope Lamanites will attack but they do not, 27th year (56:20b-26)
- • stratagem decoys Lamanites out of _____, 2,000 warriors return to fight, none killed (56:27-57)
- • Ammoron offers city of Antiparah in return for prisoners, then abandons city anyway, end 28th year (57:1-5)
- • Nephites cut off Cumeni from resupply and it surrenders (57:6-12)
- • Lamanite prisoners escape en route to Zarahemla, guards return in time to protect Cumeni (57:13-27)
- • guards explain how the prisoners escaped (57:28-36)
- • West army receives no response to request for resources to conquer Manti (58:1-8)
- • West army prays and receives comfort, so conquer Manti by ruse (58:98-28)
- • Lamanites abandon the entire western front (58:29-31)
- • Helaman questions why the west army is not sent more support, end 29th year (58:32-41)
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● Putting down kingmen and victory, 30th year (Chapters 59-62)
- • Moroni and his chief captains worry when Pahoran does not send support to Helaman or city of Nephihah (59:1-13)
- • Moroni writes a second letter to Pahoran (60:1-__)
- • Pahoran writes a reply to Moroni's letter (61:1-__)
- • Moroni and Pahoran put down second rebellion of kingmen and defeat Lamanites (62:1-38)
- • Moroni raises the title of liberty as he marches to Pahoran's aid in the land of Gideon, 30th year (62:1-6)
- • Moroni and Pahoran defeat and execute the kingmen, peace restored in Zarahemla (62:7-11)
- • Moroni sends reinforcements to Helaman and Teancum, marches to city of Nephihah, 31st year (62:12-18)
- • Moroni sneaks over wall of Nephihah and captures city, no Nephites killed (62:12-19)
- • Nephites drive Lamanites before them, Teancum sneaks in to kill Ammoron Lamanites driven away (62:30-38)
- • peacetime (62:39-52)
- • summary of what the Nephites suffered during this invasion, 32nd year (62:39-41)
- • peace restored, regulation of the church and the state (62:42-47)
- • Nephites prosper but remain humble rater than proud (62:48-52)
- • Moroni and Pahoran put down second rebellion of kingmen and defeat Lamanites (62:1-38)
[[[Alms 63 | ● Shiblon's record (Chapter 63)]]
- • Helaman I delivers the record to his brother Shiblon, 36th year (63:1-3)
- • many people migrate to the north and are not heard from again, 37th-38th years (63:4-9)
- • Shiblon publishes the record to the people and delivers it to Helaman II, 39th year (63:10-13)
- • newly dissenting Nephites stir up another Lamanite invasion that is quickly defeated, 39th year (63:13-17)
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