“Places to Know,” Book of Mormon Stories (1997), 165
“Places to Know,” Book of Mormon Stories, 165
Places to Know
- America
the promised land God directed Lehi’s family and the Jaredites to
- Ammonihah
a city of wicked people who would not listen to Alma the Younger and Amulek
- Babel
a city where wicked people built a tower so they could climb to heaven
- Bethlehem
a city near Jerusalem where Jesus Christ was born
- Bountiful1
the place Lehi’s family camped after traveling in the wilderness for eight years. From here they traveled to the promised land.
- Bountiful2
the place Jesus Christ came to when he visited the Nephites
- Hill Cumorah
the place where Moroni buried the gold plates and Joseph Smith later uncovered them
- Jershon
the land the Nephites gave the people of Ammon
- Jerusalem
the city where Lehi prophesied to the wicked and the place where Jesus Christ taught and was crucified
- Nephi
the city that Nephi and his people built after they left Laman and Lemuel and their followers
- promised land
any land God leads his chosen people to. He led Lehi’s family and the Jaredites to a promised land.
- Sidom
the land where Alma the Younger established the Church. It became the new home of the righteous people who left Ammonihah.
- Waters of Mormon
the place where Alma baptized the converted Nephites who had left King Noah
- Zarahemla
a major Nephite city that was the government and Church center. King Mosiah and King Benjamin lived here. The city was burned at Jesus’ death.