Helaman 9:1-4

Brant Gardner

At the end of Helaman 8, Nephi had prophesied that they would find that the Chief Judge had been murdered, and that his brother had killed him. That was a pretty specific and testable statement. It is unsurprising that many hurried to discover whether or not it was true. As it says in verse 2, “now we will know of a surety whether this man be a prophet of God.”

They do find the Chief Judge lying in his own blood, and therefore felt that they had received confirmation that Nephi was a prophet, and, if he had been a prophet in this, he would be a prophet in the calamities he had prophesied, except they should repent.

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