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Secret Combinations

See also Cain; Gadianton Robbers

An organization of people bound together by oaths to carry out the evil purposes of the group.

  • The father of lies stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations:2 Ne. 9:9;
  • I must needs destroy the secret works of darkness:2 Ne. 10:15;
  • Judgments of God did come upon these workers of secret combinations:Alma 37:30;
  • Gadianton did prove almost the entire destruction of the people of Nephi:Hel. 2:4–13;
  • Satan put it into the hearts of the people to form secret oaths and covenants:Hel. 6:21–31;
  • The Lord worketh not in secret combinations:Ether 8:19;
  • Nations that uphold secret combinations shall be destroyed:Ether 8:22–23;
  • They did reject all the words of the prophets, because of their secret society:Ether 11:22;
  • From the days of Cain, there was a secret combination:Moses 5:51;