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Who Wrote the Peace Maker Pamphlet?
“Thou shalt love thy wife with all thy heart, and shalt cleave unto her and none else.” Doctrine and Covenants 42:22The KnowIn the 1960s a pamphlet claiming to be “A Little Known Discourse by the...
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How Does the Book of Mormon Text Reflect a Seventh-Century-BC Israelite...
“Yea, I make a record in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews.” 1 Nephi 1:2The KnowSince the discovery of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon in 1967,1 scholars have found...
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Why Did Ancient Prophets Follow Literary Patterns?
“Now it came to pass that after Alma had received his message from the angel of the Lord he returned speedily to the land of Ammonihah.” Alma 8:18The KnowIn a study published in 2002, biblical scholar...
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Why Did the Lord Allow Jerusalem to Be Destroyed?
“And now, after all these things, the time has come that they have become wicked, yea, nearly unto ripeness; and I know not but they are at this day about to be destroyed; for I know that the day must...
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Why Did Ancient Israelites Lift Their Hands in Praise?
“And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.”...
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Why Were Women Important in Ancient Israel?
“Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.”Proverbs 31:10The KnowFor a long time, many biblical scholars noted that the Old Testament is “largely concerned with preserving the...
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How Can the Book of Job Teach Us about the Temple?
“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.” Job 42:5The KnowAlthough the book of Job raises very challenging questions, it rewards careful and faithful reading. While...
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Does Psalm 22 Really Say “They Pierced My Hands and My Feet”?
“For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.” Psalm 22:16The KnowChristians have often read and appreciated Psalm 22, interpreting many...
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Why Does the Psalmist Speak about Grasping God’s Hand?
“I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.” Psalm 73:23–24The KnowMany passages in the Old Testament—but...
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How Does the Joseph Smith Translation Teach Us about Melchizedek?
“And this Melchizedek, having thus established righteousness, was called the king of heaven by his people, or in other words the king of peace.” JST Genesis 14:13The KnowAn often misunderstood but...
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What Does It Mean to “Apply Your Heart to Understanding”?
“Ye have not applied your hearts to understanding; therefore, ye have not been wise. Therefore, what teach ye this people?”Mosiah 12:27The KnowWhen Abinadi was arraigned before the priests of Noah,...
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Why Did Isaiah Refer to the Heavenly Hosts as “Seraphim”?
“I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he...
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Were There “Fiery Flying Serpents” along Lehi’s Trail?
“He sent fiery flying serpents among them; and after they were bitten he prepared a way that they might be healed.” 1 Nephi 17:41The KnowAs Nephi planned and prepared to build a ship, his brothers...
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How Did Isaiah Prophesy of the Savior?
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” The KnowHistorically, many interpretations have been offered for the...
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Why Did Isaiah Prophesy of a Suffering Messiah?
“Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall...
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When Lehi’s Party Arrived in the Land, Did They Find Horses There?
“And it came to pass that we did find upon the land of promise, as we journeyed in the wilderness, that there were beasts of the forests of every kind, both the cow and the ox, and the ass and the...
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How Did Jeremiah’s and Lehi’s Ministries Reflect One Another?
“For it came to pass in the commencement of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, (my father, Lehi, having dwelt at Jerusalem in all his days); and in that same year there came many...
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Why Did Moroni Quote from the Book of Joel?
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.”...
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What Is the Sign of Jonah?
“An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so...
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Why Does Malachi Refer to the Sun of Righteousness?
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.” Malachi 4:2The KnowThe prophet Malachi...
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