Mosiah
7 verses
After King Benjamin finished speaking to the people, he decided it would be wise to record the names of everyone who had made a covenant with God to keep His commandments.
And now, king Benjamin thought it was expedient, after having finished speaking to the people, that he should take the names of all those who had entered into a covenant with God to keep his commandments.
There was not a single person, except for little children, who had not entered into the covenant and taken upon themselves the name of Christ.
And it came to pass that there was not one soul, except it were little children, but who had entered into the covenant and had taken upon them the name of Christ.
When King Benjamin finished all these things and consecrated his son Mosiah to be ruler and king over the people, and gave him all the responsibilities concerning the kingdom, and also appointed priests to teach the people so they could hear and know the commandments of God and be reminded of the oath they had made, he dismissed the crowd, and everyone returned with their families to their own homes.
And again, it came to pass that when king Benjamin had made an end of all these things, and had consecrated his son Mosiah to be a ruler and a king over his people, and had given him all the charges concerning the kingdom, and also had appointed priests to teach the people, that thereby they might hear and know the commandments of God, and to stir them up in remembrance of the oath which they had made, he dismissed the multitude, and they returned, every one, according to their families, to their own houses.
Mosiah became king in place of his father. He started his reign when he was thirty years old, which was about four hundred seventy-six years after Lehi left Jerusalem.
And Mosiah began to reign in his father’s stead. And he began to reign in the thirtieth year of his age, making in the whole, about four hundred and seventy-six years from the time that Lehi left Jerusalem.
King Benjamin lived for three more years, and then he died.
And king Benjamin lived three years and he died.
King Mosiah walked in the ways of the Lord, observed his judgments and statutes, and kept his commandments in everything he commanded him.
And it came to pass that king Mosiah did walk in the ways of the Lord, and did observe his judgments and his statutes, and did keep his commandments in all things whatsoever he commanded him.
King Mosiah had his people work the land, and he worked the land himself so he wouldn’t be a burden to them, following everything his father had done. There was no contention among his people for three years.
And king Mosiah did cause his people that they should till the earth. And he also, himself, did till the earth, that thereby he might not become burdensome to his people, that he might do according to that which his father had done in all things. And there was no contention among all his people for the space of three years.