This is a broad statement describing Israelites in general who have been scattered throughout the world (see also commentary on 3 Nephi 21:23). They shall come from the north, south, cast, and west. How is it that they shall be gathered? By coming to “the knowledge of the Lord their God, who bath redeemed them.” The gathering of Israel, as we have sought to demonstrate in this work, is first spiritual (to Christ, his gospel, and his true Church) and second temporal (to the lands of their inheritance, to the wards and stakes where the Saints congregate). Salvation is not in a place, but in a person, the person of Christ. As the gathering is accelerated (particularly in the Millennium), we would expect to find many scriptural records coming forth. And this is what the holy word affirms. To those of the last days who bristle and spurn at the Book of Mormon the Savior said: “Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written. For I command all men, both in the east and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them; for out of the books which shall he written I will judge the world, every man according to their works, according to that which is written.” (2 Nephi 29:10-11, italics added) Elder Neal A. Maxwell has taught: “One of the unique features of the living Church of Jesus Christ is its ever-expanding body of fundamental spiritual knowledge about man’s identity and purpose.... Lost books are among the treasures yet to come forth. ... Thus, just as there will be many more Church members, families, wards, stakes, and temples, later on, there will also be many more nourishing and inspiring scriptures. However, we most first feast worthily upon that which we already have!” (CR, October 1986, pp. 69-70.)