![]() ![]() ![]() But our first indication that Lehi knew about this promised land comes in the following chapter, as he tries to reassure his wife that everything will be okay ( 1 Nephi 5:5). That promise sustained him through the trials associated with his assignment to retrieve the brass plates ( 1 Nephi 4:14). When Nephi later prayed for faith, the Lord promised him that his family would be led to a promised land ( 1 Nephi 2:20). In response, Lehi taught them by the power of the Holy Ghost, but there’s no indication that he explained where they were going. Later in the chapter, Laman and Lemuel complain that their father has led them out of the city “to perish in the wilderness…because of the foolish imaginations of his heart” ( 1 Nephi 2:11). The Lord hadn’t told him where he was going. But he apparently only knew that he was to leave the city. His friends and neighbors might have asked when they saw him assembling provisions and tents. Lehi left his house in Jerusalem, his property, and nearly all of his possessions because the Lord commanded him to “depart into the wilderness.” Where was he going? His family surely wanted to know. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and tents, and departed into the wilderness. 2 And it came to pass that the Lord commanded my father, even in a dream, that he should take his family and depart into the wilderness.ģ And it came to pass that he was obedient unto the word of the Lord, wherefore he did as the Lord commanded him.Ĥ And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness.
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