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It's True, Sir, All Present and Accounted For, by Clark Kelley via lds.org
Alma 57:21
KnoWhy #165
August 15, 2016
Why Did the Stripling Warriors Perform Their Duties “With Exactness”?
Image via lds.org
Alma 58:37
KnoWhy #167
August 17, 2016
How Did Helaman’s Army Maintain Faith While Being Cut Off from Provisions?
Image of Captain Moroni by Jody Livingston
Alma 59:3
KnoWhy #168
August 18, 2016
Why Was Moroni’s Correspondence with Pahoran Significant?
Romans looting the Jerusalem Temple, located on Arch of Titus, www.uni.edu
Alma 60:23
KnoWhy #169
August 19, 2016
Why Did Moroni Refer to Vessel Impurity in Condemning the Central Government?
Pahoran by James Fullmer
Alma 61:2
KnoWhy #573
August 11, 2020
How was Pahoran a Strong Leader in Turbulent Times?
Teancum by James Fullmer
Alma 62:36
KnoWhy #170
August 22, 2016
Why Was Teancum Captured and Killed?
Mormon Abridging the Plates by Tom Lovell. Image via LDS Media Library
Alma 62:48
KnoWhy #468
September 18, 2018
How Does Chiasmus Teach Us to Reverse the Pride Cycle?
The Ship of Hagoth, Minerva Teichert
Alma 63:8
KnoWhy #171
August 23, 2016
Why Did Mormon Mention Hagoth?
After the successive deaths of the Nephites’ most prominent leaders, their government fell and war broke out again. Image by Joge Cocco
Helaman 1:2
KnoWhy #172
August 24, 2016
How Was a Void in Leadership Dangerous for the Nephites?
Detail of a judgment scene in the Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Hunefer. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Helaman 1:3
KnoWhy #574
August 18, 2020
Why Did Pahoran, Paanchi, and Pacumeni have Such Similar Sounding Names?
Kishkumen by James Fullmer
Helaman 2:9
KnoWhy #173
August 25, 2016
Why was Helaman’s Servant Justified in Killing Kishkumen?
Temples in Palenque. Image via Adobe Stock.
Helaman 3:7
KnoWhy #174
August 26, 2016
When Did Cement Become Common in Ancient America?
James Fullmer collage by Book of Mormon Central
Helaman 4:25
KnoWhy #175
August 29, 2016
How Did the Nephites Become Weak in Such a Short Time?
Portrait of Jesus Christ via lds.org
Helaman 5:12
KnoWhy #176
August 30, 2016
Why Did Helaman Compare Christ to a Rock?
Image by Book of Mormon Central
Helaman 5:12
KnoWhy #332
June 28, 2017
Why Did Helaman Want His Sons to Remember to Build upon the Rock?
Image of Naples-Russel Mound 8 via Wikipedia
Helaman 6:6
KnoWhy #336
July 7, 2017
Who Was Zelph?
Image via Book of Mormon Central
Helaman 6:10
KnoWhy #177
August 31, 2016
Why Was Chiasmus Used in Nephite Record Keeping?
The Gadianton Robbers by Jody Livingston
Helaman 6:18
KnoWhy #432
May 10, 2018
What is the Difference Between "Robbers" and "Thieves" in the Book of Mormon?
Aztec market of Tlatelolco by Diego Rivera
Helaman 7:10
KnoWhy #178
September 1, 2016
Why Did Nephi Prophesy Near “the Highway Which Led to the Chief Market?”
Nephi praying upon his tower. Drawing by Jody Livingston.
Helaman 7:15
KnoWhy #575
August 25, 2020
Why Does Helaman 7–8 Feel Like a Funeral Speech?
2 Nephi 31 by Jorge Cocco
Helaman 8:22
KnoWhy #179
September 2, 2016
Why Did Nephi Rely on Earlier Testimonies of Christ?
Seantum by Briana Shawcroft
Helaman 9:35–36
KnoWhy #180
September 5, 2016
Why Could Seantum be Convicted Without Any Witnesses?
“The Apocalypse of Saint John the Evangelist” by Jan Massijs
Helaman 10:7
KnoWhy #531
September 12, 2019
Why Do New Testament Words and Phrases Show Up in the Book of Mormon? Part 4: Revelations to Nephite Prophets as the Source (Part B)
Dante Alighieri and Beatrice Portinari gazing into the Empyrean Light by Gustave Doré
Helaman 10:8
KnoWhy #181
September 6, 2016
Why is There Temple Imagery in Helaman 10?
“Death by Hunger” by Vasyl Krychevsky
Helaman 11:4
KnoWhy #182
September 7, 2016
How Did Nephi Use the Power to Seal on Earth and in Heaven?
Zeniff Battle by James Fullmer, Book of Mormon Central Adaptation
Helaman 11:25
KnoWhy #423
April 10, 2018
Is the Book of Mormon's Depiction of Guerrilla Warfare Realistic?
Sunset in Orbit by Romolo Tavani
Helaman 12:7
KnoWhy #183
September 8, 2016
Why Did Mormon Say the Children of Men are Less than the Dust of the Earth?
Still Image from "A Day for the Eternities" via LDS Media Library
Helaman 12:23
KnoWhy #504
March 1, 2019
What Can We All Learn about Repentance from the Tragic Loss of the 116 Book of Mormon Pages?
“And They Did Cast Him Out.” Painting by Normandy Poulter and the BYU Virtual Scriptures Group.
Helaman 13:3
KnoWhy #576
September 1, 2020
How Are Samuel the Lamanite and the Biblical Prophet Samuel Similar?
Four Prophets by Robert T. Barrett via lds.org
Helaman 13:4
KnoWhy #284
March 8, 2017
What Does the Book of Mormon Teach about Prophets?
Samuel at the Wall 2 by Jorge Cocco
Helaman 13:5–6
KnoWhy #327
June 16, 2017
How Can People Today Avoid Being Destroyed Like the Nephites Were?
Composite image of Samuel en la Muralla and Samuel en la Muralla 2, by Jorge Cocco, withe Mayan Calendar added by Book of Mormon Central
Helaman 13:5
KnoWhy #184
September 9, 2016
Why Did Samuel Make Such Chronologically Precise Prophecies?