Nephi, giving his own account, continued to quote his father. Lehi prophesied, as had Isaiah, that his people would be exiled to Babylon but that they would return again to their homeland. Though the tribes of Israel were carried off and lost to Israelite history, the tribe of Judah would not be completely destroyed. A remnant must return, for the Messiah was to come though Judah, and he had to be born in the land of Jerusalem.