“A Choice and a Favored People of the Lord”

Brant Gardner

Although again expressing his hope that Laman and Lemuel and their descendants might become “a choice and favored people,” Lehi sounds a note of resignation, accepting both the inevitability that his sons will exercise their own agency and also accepting that Yahweh’s will would be done thereby.

Second Witness: Analytical & Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 2

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