Lehi received direction to take his family and sufficient provisions and leave Jerusalem. Having learned earlier of the impending destruction of the great city, he evidenced perfect obedience to the revelation (dream) which instructed this submissive seer to leave behind all that he had spent a lifetime in building up. Like Moses, an earlier seer who esteemed the reproach of Christ as greater riches than the treasures in Egypt (see Hebrews 11:26), Lehi knew in what and in whom he trusted.