Again we find Laman and Lemuel consumed with a spirit of opposition. In this instance they have spoken of slaying both Nephi and Lehi. It will be remembered that they had previously plotted the death of Nephi (1 Nephi 7:16). Longing for the “flesh pots” of their Egypt, the world they had left behind, Laman and Lemuel were now left unto themselves-void of the Spirit.
It is for such “to kick against the pricks, to persecute the saints, and to fight against God” (D&C 121:38), seeking the blood of the Lord’s anointed. Laman and Lemuel rejected the witness of the Spirit and the attendant light and truth. Their Urim and Thummim now became the dark stones of naturalism and humanism. Having refused to trust in the Lord and his purposes, they were now unable to penetrate the veil of their own unbelief, and they sank so low as to propose killing their father and their brother.