“A Place”

Alan C. Miner

Hugh Pinnock writes that a common element in Hebrew poetry is the use of word pairs. The word pair place . . . land is attested in these two simple alternates from the Bible:

(A) Am I now come up without the Lord against this place

(B) to destroy it?

(A) The Lord said to me, Go up against this land,

(B) and destroy it. (2 Kings 18:25)

The word pair place . . . land is also found in the Book of Mormon: "they had found those priests of king Noah, in a place which they called Amulon; and they had begun to possess the land of Amulon (Mosiah 23:31). [Hugh W. Pinnock, Finding Biblical Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon, FARMS, 1999, pp. 52-54]

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