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THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI
HIS REIGN AND MINISTRY
CHAPTER 7
  14 For behold, the aSpirit of the Lord bceaseth soon to strive with them; for behold, they have crejected the prophets, and dJeremiah have they cast into prison. And they have sought to take away the elife of my father, insomuch that they have driven him out of the land.

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Ezek. 5: 6.
  6 And she hath changed my judgments into awickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have brefused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
1 Ne. 1: 19 (18-20)
  19 And it came to pass that the aJews did bmock him because of the things which he testified of them; for he truly testified of their cwickedness and their abominations; and he testified that the things which he saw and heard, and also the things which he read in the book, manifested plainly of the coming of a dMessiah, and also the redemption of the world.
1 Ne. 2: 13.
  13 Neither did they abelieve that Jerusalem, that great city, could be bdestroyed according to the words of the prophets. And they were like unto the Jews who were at Jerusalem, who sought to take away the life of my father.
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Jer. 37: 15 (15-21)
  15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with aJeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the bprison.
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1 Ne. 2: 1.
  1 For behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto my father, yea, even in a dream, and said unto him: Blessed art thou Lehi, because of the things which thou hast done; and because thou hast been faithful and declared unto this people the things which I commanded thee, behold, they seek to atake away thy blife.