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D&C 135:3 · 2 Samuel 1:23

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 135:3
"In life they were not divided, and in death they were not separated!"
Old Testament 2 Samuel 1:23
"and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions."

Shared words: they were not divided

'they were not divided' stands at exactly two distinct frozen verses in the corpus: these. Both are laments for two men who died together and both pair life with death. The verbs are exchanged between the halves: the older verse puts 'not divided' with death, this one with life, and supplies a second verb, 'not separated', for death. D&C 135 is an announcement about deaths already past, written in an announcing plural with no divine first person anywhere in the section; its claims are the announcers' and are attributed as such. The announcers are not named in the verse text. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.