Helaman Chapter 4

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Summary:   Contentions in the land and in the church cause several Nephites to leave the Nephites and join up with the Lamanites. They stir up the Lamanites who come up into battle and take over Zarahemla. The defeat happens because the Nephites had become prideful and started to act wickedly and forgot that God had persevered them when they were humble. The Nephites begin to dwindle in unbelief.

Lessons Taught/To be Learned: (no specific lessons for this chapter)

Key Scriptures (italicized and in quotes):

"11 Now this great loss of the Nephites, and the great slaughter which was among them, would not have happened had it not been for their wickedness and their abomination which was among them; yea, and it was among those also who professed to belong to the church of God."