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4 Nephi 1:8 · 3 Nephi 9:3

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Book of Mormon 4 Nephi 1:8
"Yea, even that great city Zarahemla did they cause to be built again"
Book of Mormon 3 Nephi 9:3
"that great city Zarahemla have I burned with fire, and the inhabitants thereof"

Shared words: that great city Zarahemla

The burned capital rebuilt. The divine voice named Zarahemla at the head of the destroyed-cities inventory -- 'that great city Zarahemla have I burned with fire, and the inhabitants thereof' (3 Nephi 9:3); a generation into the post-visitation peace the record reports it raised again -- 'Yea, even that great city Zarahemla did they cause to be built again' (4 Nephi 1:8). The general statement stands one verse earlier: 'the Lord did prosper them exceedingly in the land; yea, insomuch that they did build cities again where there had been cities burned' (4 Nephi 1:7), and 4 Nephi 1:8's 'Yea, even' singles Zarahemla out of that general rebuilding by name. Shared distinctive phrase: the four-word epithet 'that great city Zarahemla', which occurs in the corpus at exactly four verses -- Helaman 1:18, 3 Nephi 8:24, 3 Nephi 9:3, 4 Nephi 1:8 -- the reputation that left it undefended (Helaman 1:18), the two burnings (survivors' lament 3 Nephi 8:24, divine voice 3 Nephi 9:3), and now the rebuild. PAIRS WITH 3ne-zar-great-city-burned (3 Nephi 9:3 <-> 3 Nephi 8:24, the burning's lament-and-answer, hosted on this same page): that record closes the burning on the epithet; this one reopens the city with it, sharing the 3 Nephi 9:3 endpoint. 4 Nephi 1:9 immediately qualifies the scope of the rebuilding -- 'there were many cities which had been sunk, and waters came up in the stead thereof; therefore these cities could not be renewed' -- so the text reports the fire-destroyed cities rebuilt but the water-buried ones (the sinkings of 3 Nephi 9:4-8) permanently lost; Zarahemla, burned rather than sunk, is on the rebuildable side. Type is shared-phrasing on the verbatim four-word epithet, not a verbatim block; 'built again' / 'built up' language is not itself claimed distinctive.

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