Why didn’t Nephi include things “more pleasing unto the world” in his record?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The proud and the haughty are found in the clefts and tops of rocks (Isa. 2:19; Jer. 49:16; Obad. 1:3). In times of trouble the wicked choose to flee into the rocks of the earth, rejecting Jehovah, who is the ‘Rock of Israel’ (2 Sam. 23:3) and the ‘Rock of Heaven’ (Moses 7:53). Meanwhile, the righteous build on the rock of Christ and will never fall (Matt. 7:24–27). It is possible that the clefts of the rocks mentioned in Isa. 2:21 will be produced by the earthquake mentioned in Isa. 2:19” (Parry et al., Understanding Isaiah, 34–35).

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