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3 Nephi 9:3 · 3 Nephi 8:24

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Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 9:3
"that great city Zarahemla have I burned with fire, and the inhabitants thereof"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 8:24
"they would not have been burned in that great city Zarahemla"

Shared words: that great city Zarahemla

The capital's burning, named first by the survivors then by the divine voice in the same epithet. The phrase 'that great city Zarahemla' occurs at four verses in the corpus: Helaman 1:18, 3 Nephi 8:24, 3 Nephi 9:3, and 4 Nephi 1:8 — the rebuilding, 'even that great city Zarahemla did they cause to be built again'. Helaman 1:18 (already on the page) is the pre-fall reputation that left the capital undefended -- the Lamanites 'durst not come into the heart of their lands to attack that great city Zarahemla'; the two 3 Nephi verses are its burning. 8:24 is the survivors' counterfactual regret in the three-day darkness ('would not have been burned in that great city Zarahemla'); 9:3 is the voice of Christ answering with the accomplished fact ('that great city Zarahemla have I burned with fire, and the inhabitants thereof'). The distinctive datum is the shared four-word epithet 'that great city Zarahemla'; 'burned with fire' alone is NOT distinctive -- it recurs in the same divine inventory at 3 Nephi 9:9 (Jacobugath) and 9:10 (Laman/Josh/Gad/Kishkumen), and eschatologically at Jacob 5:77 and 6:3. The narrator's report at 8:8 ('the city of Zarahemla did take fire') completes the three-fold naming (narrator / survivors / divine voice) but uses 'the city of Zarahemla', not the shared epithet, so it is not the registered end. The lament-and-answer sequence is noted, not over-read. The full 16-city destruction inventory (9:3-10) is tabled on places-geography.md; this record is the single-city verbal pair, not the inventory.

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