One of the examples given for the power that Nephi might have was that “if a man hide up a treasure in the earth, and the Lord shall say—Let it be accursed, because of the iniquity of him who hath hid it up—behold, it shall be accursed. And if the Lord shall say—Be thou accursed, that no man shall find thee from this time henceforth and forever—behold, no man getteth it henceforth and forever” (Helaman 12:18–19). Samuel gives a specific prophecy of just such a thing happening. Although there is no confirmation that this is fulfilled in the near future, it will happen in Mormon’s day: “that the inhabitants … began to hide up their treasures in the earth; and they became slippery, because the Lord had cursed the land, that they could not hold them, nor retain them again” (Mormon 1:18).