“The People Began to Plead with Their Chief Judges and Their Leaders”

Brant Gardner

The people understand that the chief judges and other leaders who are Gadiantons are those who had been behind the civil war against Nephi and other believers in the gospel. Their desperation-turned-to-belief led them to petition their leaders to listen to Nephi and ask Nephi to turn away the famine.

Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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