Alma 10: 22

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THE BOOK OF ALMA
THE SON OF ALMA

CHAPTER 10

22 Yea, and I say unto you that if it were not for the ^aprayers of the righteous, who are now in the land, that ye would even now be visited with utter destruction; yet it would not be by ^bflood, as were the people in the days of ^cNoah, but it would be by famine, and by pestilence, and the ^dsword.

Footnotes

22a	1 Sam. 7: 9 (7-10). 9 ¶ And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord: and Samuel ^acried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord ^bheard him. Mosiah 27: 14 (14-16). 14 And again, the angel said: Behold, the Lord hath ^aheard the prayers of his people, and also the ^bprayers of his servant, Alma, who is thy father; for he has ^cprayed with much faith concerning thee that thou mightest be brought to the ^dknowledge of the truth; therefore, for this purpose have I come to ^econvince thee of the power and authority of God, that the ^fprayers of his servants might be answered according to their faith.
b	Gen. 8: 21. 21 And the Lord smelled a sweet ^asavour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again ^bcurse the ground any more ^cfor man’s sake; for the ^dimagination of man’s heart is ^eevil from his youth; neither will I again ^fsmite any more every thing living, as I have done. 3 Ne. 22: 9 (8-10). 9 For this, the ^awaters of Noah unto me, for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee. TG Flood.
c	TG Earth, Cleansing of.
d	Deut. 32: 25. 25 The ^asword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. JS-H 1: 45. 45 He commenced, and ^aagain related the very same things which he had done at his first visit, without the least variation; which having done, he informed me of great ^bjudgments which were coming upon the earth, with great desolations by ^cfamine, ^dsword, and pestilence; and that these grievous judgments would come on the earth in this generation. Having related these things, he again ascended as he had done before.