KnoWhy Scripture Filter
Joseph Smith received the gold plates as prophesied by Nephi. Image via lds.org
2 Nephi 26:16, Isaiah 29:4
Why Does Nephi Use Isaiah 29 as Part of His Own Prophecy?
KnoWhy #52
March 11, 2016
Editions of the Book of Mormon
Title Page
Are There Mistakes in the Book of Mormon?
KnoWhy #3
January 4, 2016
DNA via pixabay.com
Introduction
Why Hasn’t Lehi’s DNA Been Found?
KnoWhy #280
February 27, 2017
Photograph by Laci Gibbs via ladylacecreative.com
Testimony of Eight Witnesses
Are the Accounts of the Golden Plates Believable?
KnoWhy #403
January 30, 2018
Reno Nevada Temple Angel Moroni
Testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith
Why Did Moroni Deliver the Plates on September 22?
KnoWhy #193
September 22, 2016
Prophecy of Christ via LDS Media Library
1 Nephi 1:1
Why Is It Good to Seek Both Spiritual and Secular Learning?
KnoWhy #324
June 9, 2017
Lehi en el desierto by Jorge Cocco
1 Nephi 1:1
What Is So Good about Nephi’s Name?
KnoWhy #445
June 28, 2018
Stone Panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-Pilesar III via the British Museum
1 Nephi 1:1
Why Does Nephi Begin by Saying “I, Nephi . . .”?
KnoWhy #476
October 16, 2018
Hieratic Ostracon from Arad
1 Nephi 1:2
Did Ancient Israelites Write in Egyptian?
KnoWhy #4
January 5, 2016
The Bremner-Rhind Papyrus (305 BC) via The British Museum
1 Nephi 1:3
Why Did Book of Mormon Authors Use Colophons?
KnoWhy #443
June 21, 2018
Lehi Prophesying in Jerusalem via LDS Media Library
1 Nephi 1:4
Who Were the “Many Prophets” in Jerusalem During Lehi’s Time
KnoWhy #441
June 14, 2018
The Assumption of the Virgin by Botticini
1 Nephi 1:8
Why Are Lehi’s First Visions So Similar to Much Later Apocalyptic Writings?
KnoWhy #459
August 16, 2018
Painting by Robert T. Barrett. Image via LDS Media Library
1 Nephi 1:11–12
Why Are Lehi’s Visions Like Those of Other Prophets in His Day?
KnoWhy #469
September 20, 2018
Ancient Records by James H. Fullmer
1 Nephi 1:17
Where Is the Narrative Transition in 1 Nephi?
KnoWhy #461
August 23, 2018
“Nefi ora con Liahona” by Jorge Cocco
1 Nephi 1:20
How Can We Be Delivered through the Lord’s Tender Mercies?
KnoWhy #447
July 5, 2018
Hacia el desierto by Jorge Cocco
1 Nephi 2:2
Why Does Zion Flourish in the Wilderness?
KnoWhy #362
September 7, 2017
“Lehi’s Family Leaving Jerusalem” by Scott Snow via LDS Media Library
1 Nephi 2:5
How Many Others Traveled with Lehi to the Promised Land?
KnoWhy #465
September 6, 2018
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
1 Nephi 2:6–7
How Can We Be Thankful During Times of Hardship?
KnoWhy #384
November 23, 2017
Two images of Wadi Tayyib al-Ism via lds.org
1 Nephi 2:6
Have the Valley of Lemuel and the River Laman Been Found?
KnoWhy #286
March 13, 2017
Lehi in the desert
1 Nephi 2:9–10
Did Lehi Use the Poetry of the Ancient Bedouin?
KnoWhy #5
January 6, 2016
Mount Sinai, Egypt via lds.org
1 Nephi 2:12–13
How Can the Old Testament Covenants Help Us Understand the Book of Mormon?
KnoWhy #363
September 12, 2017
“The Flight of the Prisoners,” by James Jacques Joseph Tissot
1 Nephi 2:13
Why Did Some in Lehi’s Time Believe that Jerusalem Could Not Be Destroyed?
KnoWhy #451
July 19, 2018
The Liahona by Arnold Friberg via lds.org
1 Nephi 2:16
Acquiring Spiritual Knowledge: Act in Faith
KnoWhy #260
January 11, 2017
Paradise by Carlo Saraceni
1 Nephi 2:16
Why Did Nephi Want to Know the Mysteries of God?
KnoWhy #442
June 19, 2018
Mary Fielding Smith and Joseph F. Smith Crossing the Plains, by Glen S. Hopkinson via lds.org
1 Nephi 2:20
How Was Lehi’s Journey Similar to the Mormon Pioneers’ Trek West?
KnoWhy #357
August 25, 2017
“The Meeting of Esau and Jacob” by James Tissot
1 Nephi 2:22
Why Was It Significant that Nephi Was Made ‘a Ruler and a Teacher’ Over His Brethren?
KnoWhy #462
August 28, 2018
Satelite image of Israel
1 Nephi 3:4
Why Does Nephi Always Go Down to the Wilderness and Up to Jerusalem?
KnoWhy #6
January 7, 2016
Image by Book of Mormon Central
1 Nephi 3:7
Why Did Nephi Believe the Lord Would Prepare a Way?
KnoWhy #263
January 18, 2017
Brother Joseph by David Lindsley
1 Nephi 3:19
How Much Could Joseph Smith Have Known about Chiasmus in 1829?
KnoWhy #334
July 3, 2017
Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836 via Wikipedia
1 Nephi 3:29
Why Don't We Know the Names of the Angels in the Book of Mormon?
KnoWhy #426
April 19, 2018
Walls of Jerusalem
1 Nephi 4:4
Did Jerusalem Have Walls Around It?
KnoWhy #7
January 8, 2016
Vered Jericho Sword of Ancient Israel 600bc Steel by Shad Brooks
1 Nephi 4:9
What Was the Sword of Laban Like?
KnoWhy #401
January 23, 2018

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