0 Why did the Anti-Nephi-Lehies bury their swords in the ground?

Warren A. Cowdery should be appointed and ordained a presiding high priest over my church, in the land of Freedom and the regions round about. Doctrine & Covenants 106:1

Trivia: In Section 41, God commanded the church to build a house for someone. Who was that person?

Why did the Anti-Nephi-Lehies bury their swords in the ground?


So they could be washed bright through the blood of the Son of God.

If we [the Anti-Nephi-Lehies] should stain our swords again they can no more be washed bright through the blood of the Son of our great God. Alma 24:13
(This occurred, according the LDS footnote for this chapter, somewhere between 77 and 90 BCE.

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