“That Cunning Plan of the Evil One”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet
The devil is a shrewd manager of machinations. He seeks with clever persuasion to convince man to be independent of heaven’s God, to trust in earth’s wealth rather than heaven’s treasures and in man’s intellect rather than God’s intelligence.

“The Eldest Daughter of Ishmael to Wife”

During the journey front Jerusalem to the Valley of Lemuel, Laman and Lemuel had violently clashed with Nephi. They had even bound him and plotted his death. At this nine two of Ishmael's daughters had sided with the rebellious brothers, while another of his daughters, along with her mother and one of her brothers, pleaded that they free Nephi (see 1 Nephi 7:19). It seems a natural assumption that the girls siding with Laman and Lemuel became their wives, while their courageous sister eventually became Nephi's wife, Zoram having married the oldest girl.

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 1

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