“Band of Two Thousand and Sixty Fought Most Desperately”

Brant Gardner

Helaman began with a band of two thousand, and has added sixty more. He now refers to them as two thousand and sixty. This appears to be a count, but does not necessary have to indicate that there was a full two thousand in the contingent (though there may well have been). Helaman may simply be noting the two separate time-origins of his force, the better to indicate that none of them were lost, either form the first two thousand or from the later sixty.

Multidimensional Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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