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“Lehi’s Family Leaving Jerusalem” by Scott Snow via LDS Media Library
Thursday, September 6, 2018
1 Nephi 2:5; KnoWhy #465
How Many Others Traveled with Lehi to the Promised Land?
Still Image from “Son of God”
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
1 Nephi 4:22; KnoWhy #464
Who Were the “Elders of the Jews” Mentioned by Zoram?
“Jeremiah in Prison” by Robert T. Barrett
Thursday, August 30, 2018
1 Nephi 7:14; KnoWhy #463
How Could Nephi Have Known about Jeremiah’s Imprisonment?
“The Meeting of Esau and Jacob” by James Tissot
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
1 Nephi 2:22; KnoWhy #462
Why Was It Significant that Nephi Was Made ‘a Ruler and a Teacher’ Over His Brethren?
Ancient Records by James H. Fullmer
Thursday, August 23, 2018
1 Nephi 1:17; KnoWhy #461
Where Is the Narrative Transition in 1 Nephi?
Etching of Joseph Smith Climbing Fence from The Smith Family Farm
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Alma 19:6; KnoWhy #460
Why Are People Exhausted by Powerful Spiritual Experiences?
The Assumption of the Virgin by Botticini
Thursday, August 16, 2018
1 Nephi 1:8; KnoWhy #459
Why Are Lehi’s First Visions So Similar to Much Later Apocalyptic Writings?
Still Image from “The Zoramites and the Rameumpton” via LDS Media Library
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Alma 31:25; KnoWhy #458
How is the Name Zoram Connected with Pride?
Image via LDS Media Library
Thursday, August 9, 2018
1 Nephi 5:4; KnoWhy #457
What Did It Mean for Lehi to be a Visionary Man?
Photo by Stephen Leonardi on Unsplash
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
1 Nephi 8:20; KnoWhy #456
Is the Path to Eternal Life “Strait” or “Straight"?
“Mary Whitmer and Moroni” by Robert T. Pack
Thursday, August 2, 2018
2 Nephi 27:14; KnoWhy #455
What Does Mary Whitmer Teach Us About Enduring Trials?
Illustration of the Kinderhook plates and the Nauvoo Neighbor broadside. Image via Book of Mormon Central
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Mosiah 8:12-13; KnoWhy #454
What Do the Kinderhook Plates Reveal About Joseph Smith’s Gift of Translation?
“The Hill Cumorah” by George Anderson via history.lds.org
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Mormon 6:6; KnoWhy #453
How Are Oliver Cowdery’s Messenger and Advocate Letters to Be Understood and Used?
Still Image from Joseph Smith: Plates of Gold
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
1 Nephi 9:5; KnoWhy #452
What Was on the Lost 116 Pages?
“The Flight of the Prisoners,” by James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Thursday, July 19, 2018
1 Nephi 2:13; KnoWhy #451
Why Did Some in Lehi’s Time Believe that Jerusalem Could Not Be Destroyed?
Two Oxhyrhynchus Didache Fragments via bricecjones.com
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Moroni 6:5; KnoWhy #450
What Can an Ancient Christian Text Tell us About the Book of Mormon?
“The Resurrected Christ” by Wilson J. Omg
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Alma 19:29; KnoWhy #449
What Does the Abish Story Signal About the Resurrection?
Image of Christ via LDS Media Library
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
1 Nephi 10:4; KnoWhy #448
Why Did Nephi Clarify That the Messiah Was the Savior of the World?
“Nefi ora con Liahona” by Jorge Cocco
Thursday, July 5, 2018
1 Nephi 1:20; KnoWhy #447
How Can We Be Delivered through the Lord’s Tender Mercies?
The "Lake of Fire" from Spell 126 of the Book of the Dead via Universität Heidelberg
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
2 Nephi 9:16; KnoWhy #446
Why Does the Book of Mormon Warn that a Lake of Fire and Brimstone Awaits Sinners in the Afterlife?
Lehi en el desierto by Jorge Cocco
Thursday, June 28, 2018
1 Nephi 1:1; KnoWhy #445
What Is So Good about Nephi’s Name?
Lehi, Nephi, and Jacob Utilizing the Plates. Images via lds.org
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
1 Nephi 19:4; KnoWhy #444
How is the Phrase "Make a Record" an Evidence for the Book of Mormon?
The Bremner-Rhind Papyrus (305 BC) via The British Museum
Thursday, June 21, 2018
1 Nephi 1:3; KnoWhy #443
Why Did Book of Mormon Authors Use Colophons?
Paradise by Carlo Saraceni
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
1 Nephi 2:16; KnoWhy #442
Why Did Nephi Want to Know the Mysteries of God?
Lehi Prophesying in Jerusalem via LDS Media Library
Thursday, June 14, 2018
1 Nephi 1:4; KnoWhy #441
Who Were the “Many Prophets” in Jerusalem During Lehi’s Time?
Ezekiel
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Jacob 5:24; KnoWhy #440
Did Prophets Such as Ezekiel Know the Writings of Zenos?
King David the Poet by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Jacob 6:6; KnoWhy #439
Why Are Certain Biblical Psalms Used by Book of Mormon Authors?
Jesus Mourning via LDS Media Library
Thursday, May 31, 2018
1 Nephi 8:8; KnoWhy #438
Why Do Biblical Psalms of Lament Show Up in the Book of Mormon?
The Orlando Florida Temple
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
2 Nephi 25:16; KnoWhy #437
How Do the Psalms Quoted in the Book of Mormon Teach about the Temple?
“Ruth in Boaz’s Field,” by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Thursday, May 24, 2018
2 Nephi 2:3; KnoWhy #436
How the Book of Mormon and the Old Testament Help Us Understand What it Means to be Redeemed