The Collected Works of Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith Jr.
22:6
6 Behold the back pass, through the back wall, on the back side
of the city. The Lamanites, or the guards of the Lamanites, by
night are drunken; therefore let us send a proclamation among all
this people that they gather together their flocks and herds,
that they may drive them into the wilderness by night.
Mosiah 22:7
7 And I will go according to thy command and pay the last
tribute of wine to the Lamanites, and they will be drunken; and
we will pass through the secret pass on the left of their camp
when they are drunken and asleep.
Mosiah 22:8
8 Thus we will depart with our women and our children, our
flocks, and our herds into the wilderness; and we will travel
around the land of Shilom.
Mosiah 22:9
9 And it came to pass that the king hearkened unto the words of
Gideon.
Mosiah 22:10
10 And king Limhi caused that his people should gather their
flocks together; and he sent the tribute of wine to the
Lamanites; and he also sent more wine, as a present unto them;
and they did drink freely of the wine which king Limhi did send
unto them.
Mosiah 22:11
11 And it came to pass that the people of king Limhi did depart
by night into the wilderness with their flocks and their herds,
and they went round about the land of Shilom in the wilderness,
and bent their course towards the land of Zarahemla, being led by
Ammon and his brethren.
Mosiah 22:12
12 And they had taken all their gold, and silver, and their
precious things, which they could carry, and also their
provisions with them, into the wilderness; and they pursued their
journey.
Mosiah 22:13
13 And after being many days in the wilderness they arrived in
the land of Zarahemla, and joined Mosiah's people, and became his
subjects.
Mosiah 22:14
14 And it came to pass that Mosiah received them with joy; and
he also received their records, and also the records which had
been found by the people of Limhi.
Mosiah 22:15
15 And now it came to pass when the Lamanites had found that the
people of Limhi had departed out of the land by night, that they
sent an army into the wilderness to pursue them;
Mosiah 22:16
16 And after they had pursued them two days, they could no
longer follow their tracks; therefore they were lost in the
wilderness.
Mosiah 23 Chapter 23
Mosiah 23:1
1 Now Alma, having been warned of the Lord that the armies of
king Noah would come upon them, and having made it known to his
people, therefore they gathered together their flocks, and took
of their grain, and departed into the wilderness before the
armies of king Noah.
Mosiah 23:2
2 And the Lord did strengthen them, that the people of king Noah
could not overtake them to destroy them.
Mosiah 23:3
3 And they fled eight days' journey into the wilderness.
Mosiah 23:4
4 And they came to a land, yea, even a very beautiful and
pleasant land, a land of pure water.
Mosiah 23:5
5 And they pitched their tents, and began to till the ground,
and began to build buildings; yea, they were industrious, and did
labor exceedingly.
Mosiah 23:6
6 And the people were desirous that Alma should be their king,
for he was beloved by his people.
Mosiah 23:7
7 But he said unto them: Behold, it is not expedient that we
should have a king; for thus saith the Lord: Ye shall not esteem
one flesh above another, or one man shall not think himself above
another; therefore I say unto you it is not expedient that ye
should have a king.
Mosiah 23:8
8 Nevertheless, if it were possible that ye could always have
just men to be your kings it would be well for you to have a
king.
Mosiah 23:9
9 But remember the iniquity of king Noah and his priests; and I
myself was caught in a snare, and did many things which were
abominable in the sight of the Lord, which caused me sore
repentance;
Mosiah 23:10
10 Nevertheless, after much tribulation, the Lord did hear my
cries, and did answer my prayers, and has made me an instrument
in his hands in bringing so many of you to a knowledge of his
truth.
Mosiah 23:11
11 Nevertheless, in this I do not glory, for I am unworthy to
glory of myself.
Mosiah 23:12
12 And now I say unto you, ye have been oppressed by king Noah,
and have been in bondage to him and his priests, and have been
brought into iniquity by them; therefore ye were bound with the
bands of iniquity.
Mosiah 23:13
13 And now as ye have been delivered by the power of God out of
these bonds; yea, even out of the hands of king Noah and his
people, and also from the bonds of iniquity, even so I desire
that ye should stand fast in this liberty wherewith ye have been
made free, and that ye trust no man to be a king over you.
Mosiah 23:14
14 And also trust no one to be your teacher nor your minister,
except he be a man of God, walking in his ways and keeping his
commandments.
Mosiah 23:15
15 Thus did Alma teach his people, that every man should love
his neighbor as himself, that there should be no contention among
them.
Mosiah 23:16