The right words have been selected from the words of Limhi in order to clearly communicate his main message that he and his people were in bondage because they had sinned. Limhi was definitely aware of this. As king, he gathered his people at the temple and reminded them that God had saved their ancestors, reiterating the miracle of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea on dry ground. "[T]hat same God has brought our fathers out of the land of Jerusalem, and has kept and preserved his people even until now." But, "[i]t is because of our iniquities and abominations that he has brought us into bondage." In the context of the Exodus theology, returning to "bondage" could mean nothing less than returning to slavery, which the Israelites had known in Egypt before Moses delivered them. To Limhi’s people, who had returned to the Land of Nephi in order to reclaim the traditional temple in that city, nothing could have been more inspiring than Limhi’s impassioned temple speech reminding his people—and us too—to keep our covenants.