Doctrine and Covenants 124: 26

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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 124

26 And send ye ^aswift messengers, yea, chosen messengers, and say unto them: Come ye, with all your ^bgold, and your silver, and your precious stones, and with all your antiquities; and with all who have ^cknowledge of antiquities, that will come, may come, and bring the ^dbox-tree, and the fir-tree, and the pine-tree, together with all the precious trees of the earth;

Footnotes

26a	Isa. 18: 2 (1-7). 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of ^abulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have ^bspoiled!
b	1 Kgs. 6: 21 (21-22). 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure ^agold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. 2 Ne. 5: 15. 15 And I did teach my people to ^abuild buildings, and to ^bwork in all ^cmanner of wood, and of ^diron, and of copper, and of ^ebrass, and of steel, and of ^fgold, and of silver, and of precious ores, which were in great abundance.
c	D&C 93: 53. 53 And, verily I say unto you, that it is my will that you should ^ahasten to ^btranslate my scriptures, and to ^cobtain a ^dknowledge of history, and of countries, and of kingdoms, of ^elaws of God and man, and all this for the salvation of Zion. Amen.
d	Ex. 26: 15. 15 ¶ And thou shalt make ^aboards for the tabernacle of shittim ^bwood standing up. Isa. 41: 19. 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the ^ashittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the ^bfir tree, and the ^cpine, and the box tree together: Isa. 60: 13. 13 The glory of ^aLebanon shall come unto thee, the ^bfir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to ^cbeautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my ^dfeet glorious.