One of the first dramatic episodes in the Book of Mormon is the story of how Lehis family was able with Gods help to obtain the Brass Plates from their custodian Laban 1 Nephi 3 - 5. Neither should they be dimmed any more by time 1 Ne.
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In my last article concerning the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon we saw that when Oliver Cowdery David Whitmer and Martin Harris were given the heavenly vision and shown the golden plates from whence the Book of Mormon was translated they were also shown a number of other ancient artifactsIn addition to the gold plates.
What happened to the brass plates of laban. 10102013 The passing of the Plates. There is no indication that Nephi took a single item of that back or anything else in Labans treasury but only the brass plates. 20112017 Thus Labans servant Zoram was not at all surprised that Nephi posing as Laban took the Brass Plates and carried them to who Zoram thought were the brethren or leaders of the Church at the time.
These plates were in the possession of Laban. While Lehi and his family were in the wilderness Lehi sent his sons back to Jerusalem to obtain this record 1 Ne. Since the plates in the north would have been kept by the senior family the Ephraimites this would make Laban an Ephraimite.
This sword will never be sheathed again until the kingdoms of this world become the kingdom of our God and his Christ Journal of Discourses 1938. 20062017 Chances are that the gold silver and precious things of Lehis family that fell into the hands of Laban were in that same treasury as the brass plates. The plates later played an important role in the religious life of Lehis righteous descendants the Nephites.
While the small plates quote extensively the words of Isaiah from the brass plates the brass plates themselves werent included as part of the abridgement. 24012012 The Brass Plates were inscribed with ancient scriptures many of them corresponding with books from the Old Testament that the prophet Lehi and his family took with them to the promised land of the Americas. A record of the Jews from the beginning to 600 BC containing many writings of the prophets 1 Ne.
28012020 The sword of Laban. After searching the plates of brass from the beginning Lehi was filled with the Spirit and began to prophesy concerning his seed That these plates of brass should go forth unto all nations kindreds tongues and people who were of his seed. Within several days Peays workers uncovered an ancient appearing stone box inside which there were seven brass plates obviously of great antiquity.
See the next post Did Laban Have the Ownership Rights to the Brass Plates. This record was kept by Laban one of the Jewish elders in Jerusalem. Someone must have written on the plates of brass presumbly prophets of assigned scribes.
It was unsheathed and on it was written these words. 19062011 Nephi and his brothers decided to go back to their former home in Jerusalem and get their gold and silver to trade to Laban for the brass plates. However Nephi and Jacob copied 17 chapters from Isaiah that were taken from the Brass Plates.
The Book of Mormon relates the story of Lehi a contemporary of Jeremiah who leaves Jerusalem for America with a set of Brass Plates containing prophetic writings including. Laban was presumably the keeper of the plates until then. The contained much of what we know as the Old Testament from the creation to Jeremia maybe even more than is in the OT.
A notorious instrument of destruction first read about in 1 Nephi chapter 4 when Nephi killed Laban and took the dead kings sword as he was commanded by the Lord in order to obtain the brass plates. So the Brass Plates of Laban were never in the hands of Joseph Smith. The first time they went there the sword of Laban hung upon the wall.
12082017 Thus the Book of Mormon and the Brass Plates of Laban were precisely what the audience of the Book of Mormon would have expectedthe word of God on metal plates to Restore what was lost. 30012020 The Book of Mormon does not give us a lot of information about the origins of the plates of brass. The Brass Plates of Laban.
Those who saw the plates said they were the Brass Plates of Laban which pertained to the sacred Sword of Laban. The brass plates were passed down with the Nephite records until came into the hands of Nephi the son of Nephi 3 Nephi 12. Wherefore he said that these plates of brass should never perish.
Another chapter was quoted by Abinadi in Mosiah 14 and part of Isaiah 52 and Isaiah 54 as well as parts of Malachi were quoted by the Savior in Third Nephi. 31032020 Plates of Brass in the Ancient Box. But when they went there again it had been taken down and laid upon the table across the gold plates.
Part II for more on this subject. Laban also was a descendant of Joseph wherefore he and his fathers had kept the records 1 Nephi 516. 09032009 Lehi and his family took with them the Brass Plates of Laban.
They took the gold and silver to Laban but Laban was a greedy dishonest cruel person. The sword was used as a model for the Nephites to make their own weapons when they were faced with warfare against their brothers the Lamanites and.
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