Continuing his discourse, Benjamin reminded his listeners that from their childhood days, when first they began to understand Gospel principles and saw them in the beauties of God's boundless glory, they had been taught to love and to fear Him. Endless proof of His goodness and mercy toward them fortified Benjamin's people in their resolve to render to God "all they have and are." In doing so, a payment was made on a debt they eternally owed to their Heavenly Father who had created them, and who, in His great love, gave them life.
Benjamin's people could not avoid the reasoned judgment that his words were true, because they had before them the records of the Jews which told them of God's marvelous ways and His unending purpose. Even down to the reign of Zedekiah, the last of Judah's kings, the words of their holy prophets were written "with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond," (Jer. 17:1) upon the plates Lehi had brought from Jerusalem.
These plates, or copies of them, were available to all the Nephites, and of course, they became familiar with the promises of the Lord given by His Hebrew servants.
Besides these, the Nephites had in their possession, the records of their fathers, also engraven on metal plates. In them were written the things God had commanded His Nephite servants to proclaim. Their exhortations to the righteous, their rebukes of the wicked, and their many blessings, were all included in the chronicles upon these plates which had been handed down by each generation of their ancestors, and now were in the care of King Benjamin.
King Benjamin's people knew that what was written on these plates was true, and further, they also knew that the Lord who had directed the assemblage of them was "just and true" in all His ways.