Having delivered his majestic messianic prophecy and called the wicked to repentance, Abinadi, like his prophetic partner, Stephen (see Acts 7), submitted to a cruel death at the hands of’ crueler men.
It is not easy to die, even to die for one’s testimony, but the taste of death is so much sweeter to those whose lives and words bear fervent witness of him whose servants they are. Frequently the Lord requires certain of his representatives to shed their own blood in a martyr’s death that their testament might be in full force (see D&C 135:5; Hebrews 9:16-17).