The Queen Arose and Cried O Blessed Jesus Who Has Saved Me

Alan C. Miner

According to Hugh Nibley, in a writing called The Ascension of Isaiah, Isaiah goes to the king's court and passes out on the king's bed. The people say he is dead. He's gone for two days and comes back again. When he comes back he says, I have seen the Messiah, O blessed Jesus, etc. That's the very thing that happens when the king and queen come to, here. In Alma 19:29 it says that the queen "arose and stood upon her feet, and cried with a loud voice, saying: O blessed Jesus, who has saved me from an awful hell! O blessed God, have mercy on this people!" [Hugh W. Nibley, Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 2, p. 384]

Alma 19:29 [Abish] went and took the queen by the hand, that perhaps she might raise her from the ground ([Illustration]): Abish the Lamanite Woman. Abish was a courageous Lamanite convert. When the people became angry, thinking that the king and queen were dead, Abish "went and took the queen by the hand, that perhaps she might raise her from the ground." Artist: Robert T. Barrett. [Thomas R. Valletta ed., The Book of Mormon for Latter-day Saint Families, 1999, p. 323]

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