GOSPEL WIKI

Gospel Wiki Connections mos-landnephi-guards-round-about

Mosiah 10:2 · Mosiah 19:28

Textual Shared phrasing

This connection's citations are checked against the source text.

The badges and the mark are separate signals: Textual and Interpretive name the kind of claim a connection makes, while the mark reports that the connection's citations were checked.

Book of Mormon Mosiah 10:2
"And I set guards round about the land, that the Lamanites might not come upon us again unawares and destroy us"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 19:28
"And the king of the Lamanites set guards round about the land, that he might keep the people of Limhi in the land, that they might not depart into the wilderness"

Shared words: set guards round about the land, that

Corpus-wide grep: 'set guards round about the land' occurs at exactly three verses - Mosiah 10:2, 19:28, and 23:37 ('they set guards round about the land of Helam'); the variant 'sent guards round about the land' at Mosiah 11:17. Both ends state their purpose on the surface: Zeniff's guards keep the Lamanites out; the Lamanite king's guards keep Limhi's people in (and 19:28 adds the guards are paid out of the tribute itself). The inversion is read off the quoted purpose clauses; that the record designs it as irony is not asserted.