“The Holy One of Israel Manifest Himself Unto Them in the Flesh”

D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner

Israelites left behind in the Lehites’ former homeland, the land of Jerusalem, have now been killed or exiled (600–586 b.c.).

Some of the exiles, now generically called “Jews,” would return to the land of Jerusalem (539 through the mid-400s b.c.). Jacob learned from an angel that centuries later, among the remnant of the Jews, the Messiah, the Holy One of Israel, would manifest himself in the flesh, and at the end of his ministry he would be scourged and crucified (ca. a.d. 30–33).

After the Jews reject their Holy Messiah, they will suffer his judgments, being killed and persecuted (beginning with the great Jewish-Roman War of a.d. 66–73). Regarding verse 9, see 2 Nephi 10:3.

Verse by Verse: The Book of Mormon: Vol. 1

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