Alma 17-22. Scripture Insights

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00:00 - Introduction
00:49 - Principles of Missionary Preparation
06:40 - Ammon Becomes King Lamoni's Servant
09:20 - King Lamoni's Conversion and Ammon's Influence
21:12 - Abish's Role and the Conversion of Lamoni's People
27:29 - Aaron's Missionary Efforts and Challenges
37:04 - The King of All Lamanites' Conversion
60:02 - Mormon's Commentary on Nephite Defenses

[@dianneatkins2552]

Thanks once again for another amazing lesson, it help me with my teaching. 🇹🇹

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[@phyllisaycock1880]

I just love when Taylor shares the meaning of certain words or names in the Book of Mormon. Thank you for these thoughts!❤

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[@betsy6482]

Thank you for the spiritual awakening every week ❤

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[@cindyparkus3294]

Every of your lessons give me so much knowledge as well as inspiration. I'm super grateful to you!!😊

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[@sandraneale128]

So grateful for your insights. So much comes ‘alive’ from them. God bless you all.

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Thank you!

[@vickirush5183]

I've read the Book of Mormon more than 20 times and still you teach me so many things that I never noticed! I especially like learning how the names of people and places are actually part of the lesson and the history. Thank You!

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

The Book of Mormon is inexhaustible in terms of what we can learn from it!

[@novawarren5089]

Good morning Thank you both. Very many things covered. ❤❤❤ 0:53

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Our pleasure!

[@sarapawsonherrington2595]

Truly you give such richness by explaining the meanings of the words! A powerful testimony also is there, since Joseph Smith could have not known in any way shape or form of his own knowledge, those meanings!

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[@sheisleeaddams]

Thank you for another amazing lesson ❤

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[@RyanMercer]

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Thanks for the support, Ryan!

[@dinocollins720]

Sounds like Ishmael’s )Nephi’s father-in-law) name is significant for his story as well. “God hears” or “he who hears God.” He was righteous and likely plead to God for his family and so God send Nephi/bros to save them. Also, when Nephi/bros told Ishmael God had sent him he listened to God and followed them into the wilderness.

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

yes! Excellent insight!

[@stevenicoll7069]

because King Lamoni's Father wanted to kill Ammon, only to have Ammon and King Lamoni to meet King Lamoni's Father on their way to Middoni (Alma 20: 2, 8-14)

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

Right! Hopefully my response earlier helps a bit.

[@stevenicoll7069]

Book of Mormon= Book of God's Love endures forever. I had always been taught that Mormon means 'More Good. Can someone reconcile both of those and do they mean the same.

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

Great question. Best scholarship on this, by BYU-Hawaii professor Matt Bowen, investigates the Egyptian meaning of the word. journal.interpreterfoundation.org/most-desirable-above-all-things-onomastic-play-on-mary-and-mormon-in-the-book-of-mormon/. also see: onoma.lib.byu.edu/index.php/MORMON

[@venusreyes3061]

Fourteen years as a missionary?! Oh so long.. but wait I'm thinking here we as members of lds church serving like a Missionaries that's why we need to endure until the end.

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

Great reminder!

[@dinocollins720]

Is there a good resource to find the meanings of these names Ammon, Aaron, Omni, Lamoni, Abish, Ishmael, Sidon, etc? I’ve looked up a lot of this but I thought maybe you have done more research on it Taylor since you know so much about it. Learning about these Semitic names has become my favorite thing 😂. “The name is the lesson!!!” I wish I knew Hebrew, Aramaic, Egyptian, Greek, etc. and could speak all the languages you do haha 😂

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

Yes! onoma.lib.byu.edu/index.php?title=Main_Page

[@dinocollins720]

@@ScriptureInsightsLearning thank you!!!!

[@dinocollins720]

Is it likely that King Lamoni’s father was the king that fought with Alma in chapter 2? Also if so he gets beat down by a lot of Nephites 😂

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

ha ha! possible. Some people don't learn quickly :)

[@dinocollins720]

@@ScriptureInsightsLearning lol you clearly have the gift of tongues

[@stevenicoll7069]

If it was going to happen, why not just go to the land of Nephi anyway? Any thoughts.

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

Hopefully my earlier reply provides some perspective.

[@stevenicoll7069]

Any thoughts to enlighten: Why did the Lord tell Ammon not to go to the Land of Nephi (Alma 20:2)

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

Good question. The text doesn't give the entire answer. It does seem that God wanted Ammon and Lamoni to deliver the other Nephite missionaries from prison. Perhaps had they gone to Nephi they would have been further delayed. And since Ammon met the king's father on the road, where perhaps the king may not have had as many body guards and servants, Ammon was able to physically prevail over the king, which may have been more difficult if he was at the kings court surrounded by many of the king's trusted servants...Ammon may have been put into a situation of killing the king's servants in order to defend himself, which would not have endeared himself to the king. Those are my speculations.

[@ScriptureInsightsLearning]

Thanks for asking. Hopefully my response earlier helps a bit.