The great God who miraculously led Israel out of Egypt and preserved the Israelites in the Sinai desert, the same great God worshipped by the patriarchs, yielded himself into the hands of wicked men to be crucified and then to be buried in a borrowed sepulcher. The sign of his death would be three days of darkness. All of these events, Nephi recorded, were prophesied by three otherwise unknown prophets, Zenock, Neum, and Zenos. (Zenos and Zenock are frequently mentioned together as Israelite prophets who detailed the ministry, death, and resurrection of the Savior; see also Alma 33:15; 34:7; Helaman 8:19–20; 3 Nephi 10:16. They lived and taught sometime between Abraham and Lehi.)