Jacob 1-4 | Book of Mormon Insights with Taylor and Tyler: Revisited

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0:00 Overview of Jacob - Kingship, temple, riches, chastity, covenants
3:13 Chapter 1 - Jacob the high priest, leadership, Christ’s name
12:45 Chapter 2 - Jacob’s speech
29:45 Chapter 3 - How the men treat their families
27:30 Chapter 4 - Jacob shares solutions

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[danielbarke]

Tyler Taylor and the rest of the priduction crew, thank you for this amazing video and for all of your videos. We are so blessed to live in a time where we have access to resources to deepen our own understanding of the scriptures.

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[tony-fromthenorth]

Why does Jacob 2:24 indicate it was abominable for David and Solomon to have many wives
and concubines when Doctrine and Covenants 132:1, 39 says Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses,
and many other servants of God from the beginning of creation until this time [July 12,
1843] also had many wives and concubines?

[BazSupport]

1:44 Context on God's expectations for kings/leaders in Deuteronomy 17
3:26 Jacob as prophet and priest, doing what a leader should
4:51 Significance of Jacob using the name "Christ"
7:12 Likening Jacob's teachings to our lives today
9:23 Jacob teaching at the temple about the covenant path
11:19 A leader's responsibility to teach truth
12:47 Jacob's different voice and writing style compared to Nephi
13:38 Jacob rebuking the people, starting with seeking riches
14:36 The Lord's law of marriage - one wife, no concubines
19:47 Exception to the law of marriage only when God commands
20:45 Jacob teaching the men how to properly treat women
22:07 Nephites doing greater iniquity than Lamanites
23:21 Poor treatment of women linked to Nephites' future destruction
25:12 Dust, humility, and the name Adam
27:24 Chapter 4 - Jacob preaching hope and the solution
28:48 Nephites and past prophets believing in Christ despite living law of Moses
30:01 Laws/commandments meant to point us to Christ, not save us themselves
32:11 Seeking God's counsel and being reconciled through Christ's atonement

[truthprecept]

Jacob 2:23-34 is a chiasmus with the verse in question in the middle of the chiasmus. Looking at it this way you will see that he is not endorsing multiple wives and concubines nor provides any loop holes where God makes that which he says is an abomination to that which is okay to do. He doesn’t turn from the left to the right.

Jacob says in verse 23 and 29, thus saith the Lord that the whoredoms (that people have justified doing like David and Solomon of having multiple wives and concubines because they don’t understand the scriptures) are an abomination before the Lord.

Pretty clear so far.

Then here is our traditional interpretation:
For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts,  1.) raise up seed unto me [want my people to have lots of babies],  2.) I will command my people [to have many wives]; 3.) otherwise they shall hearken unto these things [obey the traditional commandment of one man and one wife].

So the Lord under this interpretation says it is okay to practice what he just declared for several verses before as abominable before his eyes?

Here is what I have found to be a more correct interpretation that is consistent with every other verse in the Book of Mormon on this topic (see original post for scriptures). For by multiple witnesses is truth/interpretation confirmed.

The key is in verse 25
25. “I have led this people [BoM people] forth out of the land of Jerusalem…that I might RAISE UP unto me a righteous branch.”
26. Lord tells us he doesn’t want this people [BoM] to do like they [David, Solomon, Jews, etc] did of old
27. Lord gets clearer on what he just inferred - “for there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none”
28. Lord declared what he just mentioned that those “whoredoms ARE an abomination before me”
29. “This people shall keep my commandments [of not practicing whoredoms]…or cursed be the land for their sakes”
30. For if I will RAISE UP seed unto me I will command me people [to do what? Look at the chiamus, what did he say in verse 25 about what the Lord would do to raise up seed - to leave on an exodus, from where wickedness is being practiced] otherwise they shall hearken unto these things [abominations].
31.
32. Then the chiasmus descends to echo the beginning “I will not suffer that the cries of the fair daughters of this people [BoM people], which I have LED OUT OF THE LAND of Jerusalem…” to practice this abomination which is one of the reasons the Lord took them out of Jerusalem!

Continuing to Jacob 3:4-5 after condemning the covenant people [Nephites], he praises the Lamanites because “they have not forgotten the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto our father [Lehi] that they should have save it were one wife and concubines they should have none” and so we are reminded that “the Lord God will lead away the righteous out from among you.” In order to have His people escape the abominations of multiple wives.

There we have it! Jacob just told us that one of the reasons that Lehi left Jerusalem was so that they wouldn’t practice polygamy. To raise up seed to a righteous (quality not quantity) branch isn’t about having as many kids as possible, it is about raising them away from wickedness.

[curious.learner]

You say they can’t get milk and honey because of giants. Are you referring to the nephilim? I see so many YT talking about them but not so much in LDS culture.

[dilianarivasgmail]

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