Immediately After My Father Lehi Left Jerusalem

Alan C. Miner

Nephi commented that the destruction of Jerusalem "should come upon [the Jews], immediately after my father left Jerusalem" (2 Nephi 25:10). According to Randall Spackman, this verse seems to imply that Jerusalem was destroyed the very next year after Lehi left. [Randall Spackman, "An Introduction to Book of Mormon Chronology," F.A.R.M.S., p. 12]

Note* If Nephi wrote this verse at the most between 40 and 55 years after Lehi left Jerusalem (Jacob 1:1), what does immediately really mean in terms of days, months, or years? [Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes]

2 Nephi 25:13 After he is laid in a sepulchre for the space of three days he shall rise from the dead ([Illustration]): He Is Risen. "Behold they will crucify him; and after he is laid in a sepulchre for the space of three days he shall rise from the dead, with healing in his wings." Artist: Del Parson. [Thomas R. Valletta ed., The Book of Mormon for Latter-day Saint Families, 1999, p. 130]

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