Lehi

A Hebrew prophet who fled Jerusalem before its destruction, circa 600 BC, leading his followers to a promised land in the Western Hemisphere.

The numbers below refer to books, chapters, and verses in the Book of Mormon that quote or refer to Lehi:

1 Nephi
1:5
prays to the Lord on behalf of his people;
1:6–15

sees visions;

1:16
writes many things he has seen in visions and dreams;
1:18–20
prophesies among the Jews and is rejected;
2:1–4
flees Jerusalem with his family;
2:9–14
admonishes his older sons, Laman and Lemuel;
2:15
dwells in a tent;
3:2–4
sends his sons back to Jerusalem to get the brass plates from Laban;
5:4–6
comforts his wife, Sariah;
5:10–15
reads the brass plates;
5:14
is a descendant of Joseph, who was sold by his brothers into Egypt;
5:17–19
prophesies concerning his seed and the brass plates;
7:1–2
sends his sons back to Jerusalem to bring Ishmael and his family into the wilderness;
8:2–28
explains his dream of the tree of life;
10:2–16
prophesies of the Babylonian captivity of Jerusalem, the coming of Christ, and the future of the Jews;
16:9, 11–12
voice of the Lord commands Lehi to take his journey into the wilderness;
16:10
finds the Liahona;
16:20
begins to murmur against the Lord because of his afflictions;
16:23–31
asks the Lord where Nephi should hunt for food;
16:25
is chastened because of his murmuring against the Lord;
18:7
fathers two sons in the wilderness: Jacob and Joseph;
18:8–23
sails with his family to the promised land;
2 Nephi
1:1–3
speaks to his family concerning the great things the Lord has done for them;
1:4
sees in a vision that Jerusalem has been destroyed;
1:6–12
prophesies concerning the promised land;
1:13–23
admonishes his sons to keep the commandments;
1:24–29
admonishes his sons to hearken to Nephi;
2:1–30
his teachings to his son, Jacob, concerning Christ, opposition, the Fall, and redemption;
3:1–4, 25
blesses his son, Joseph;
4:3–11
blesses his grandchildren;

4:12

dies