BoM Chapter Summaries Flashcards
To know the content of every chapter in the BoM (238 cards)
1 Nephi 1
Lehi sees vision; is persecuted of the Jews
1 Nephi 2
Lehi takes family out of Jerusalem to the desert;
Laman and Lemuel reject their father’s teachings;
Nephi accepts and is favored of the Lord
1 Nephi 3
Lehi’s son’s return to Jerusalem to get the plates and fail twice;
Laman and Lemuel beat Nephi with rod
See an Angel
1 Nephi 4
Nephi kills Laban, gets the plates and brings Zoram
1 Nephi 5
Son’s of Lehi return;
Parents rejoice;
Sariah had murmured;
The plates show they are descended from Joseph
1 Nephi 6
Nephi doesn’t give genealogy;
His purpose is to persuade men to come to Christ
1 Nephi 7
Sons go get Ishmael and daughters;
Laman, et al rebel and tie up Nephi who is freed by God
1 Nephi 8
Lehi’s Vision
1 Nephi 9
Lord commanded Nephi to make 2 sets of plates;
Small plates contain the ministry, Large contain the history;
Nephi knew not why.
1 Nephi 10
Lehi prophesies Babylon will scatter Israel;
Messiah will come and be preceded by John the Baptist;
Israel will be compared to an Olive tree, scattered, then gathered in the last days;
Nephi desires to see what his father saw;
He that seeketh shall find.
1 Nephi 11
(Nephi’s Vision) He sees tree, rod, birth, ministry and death of Christ
1 Nephi 12
(Nephi’s Vision)
He sees posterity, destructions;
Christ visit to America, 12 Apostles
His seed die
1 Nephi 13
(Nephi's Vision) He sees church of devil; Columbus; Revolutionary war Bible Restoration, Book of Mormon
1 Nephi 14
(Nephi’s Vision)
If gentiles repent, they’ll be numbered with Israel;
Promises to the house of Israel;
2 churches only; the difference between church of God and of devil
John will write the rest
1 Nephi 15
Nephi’s brothers don’t understand;
Nephi explains why they were compared to olive tree;
They are a natural branch that will be grafted in again in the last days;
Nephi interprets Lehi’s dream for them;
Explains Hell;
1 Nephi 16
Wicked take truth hard; Marriages; Liahona is found; Leave Valley of Lemuel; Broken bow; Ishmael dies; L&L consider killing Nephi but are reprimanded by Lord
1 Nephi 17
Travel 8 years; babies born; Arrive at Bountiful
Nephi is commanded to build a boat and finds ore
Nephi confounds brethren and shocks them
1 Nephi 18
Build and enter boat;
Rebellion upon the waters;
They land in the Americas;
Start planting
1 Nephi 19
Nephi makes plates;
Small plates for doctrine;
Some things of great worth are set at naught by others (even Christ);
Preaches the coming of Christ, signs, and crucifixion by quoting Zenock, Zenos;
Jews will be scourged, then gathered;
Nephi reads Moses, then Isaiah to brethren
1 Nephi 20
(Isaiah 48)
Israel chosen and refined in furnace of affliction;
No peace unto the wicked
1 Nephi 21
(Isaiah 49) Zion--Israel--oppressed and scattered. Women forget suckling child but Lord will not forget; Lord to lift up standard Kings nursing fathers, etc...
1 Nephi 22
Explanation of Nephi to brothers;
Dispersion of Israel is real and figurative.
Israel to be scattered then gathered in marvelous work;
Prophet like Moses is Christ;
Righteous taken up, wicked burned;
Satan bound by saints righteousness in Millennium
2 Nephi 1
Lehi speaks to Laman and Lemuel.
Jerusalem is destroyed;
Americas – Promised Land but will be scourged when wicked;
Oh awake my sons;
They get 1st blessing if they hearken to Nephi.
2 Nephi 2
Lehi to Jacob; Opposition; Free agency; Fall of Adam; Redemption;