Tyranny
See also Governments ; Unrighteous Dominion
- manner of the king that shall reign over them: 1 Sam. 8:9 .
- Manasseh seduced them to do more evil: 2 Kgs. 21:9 .
- Haman sought to destroy all the Jews: Esth. 3:6 .
- wicked beareth rule, the people mourn: Prov. 29:2 . ( D&C 98:9 . )
- whoso falleth not down … cast into … fiery furnace: Dan. 3:6 .
- ask a petition of any God … cast into the den of lions: Dan. 6:7 .
- Herod … slew all the children … in Bethlehem: Matt. 2:16 .
- beheaded John in the prison: Matt. 14:10 .
- killed James the brother of John: Acts 12:2 .
- did cause his people to commit sin: Mosiah 11:2 .
- how much iniquity doth one wicked king cause: Mosiah 29:17 .
- to destroy the foundation of liberty: Alma 46:10 .
- by his fraud … he obtained the kingdom: Alma 47:35 .
- to overpower the Nephites: Alma 48:4 .
- they did set at defiance the law: 3 Ne. 6:30 .
- Akish was desirous for power: Ether 9:11 .
- whoso refused to labor he did cause to be put to death: Ether 10:6 .
- made to bow down … under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny: D&C 123:7 .
