“Whether It Be a Good Spirit or a Bad One”

W. Cleon Skousen

In this last verse Mormon emphasizes that the tragic consequence of this fifth year of the judges were all the result of the choices made by the apostate segment of the people:

“For every man receiveth wages of him whom he listeth to obey, and this according to the words of the spirit of prophecy; therefore let it be according to the truth. And thus endeth the fifth year of the reign of the judges.”

Treasures from the Book of Mormon

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