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:As to Laban's garrison of fifty, it seems pitifully small for a great city. It would have been just as easy for the author of 1 Nephi to have said fifty thousand and made it really impressive. Yet even the older brothers, though they wish to emphasize Laban's great power, mention only fifty ({{s|1|Nephi|3|31}}), and it is Nephi in answering them who says that the Lord is "mightier than Laban and his fifty" and adds, "or even than his tens of thousands ({{s|1|Nephi|4|1}}). As a high military commander Laban would have his tens of thousands in the field, but such an array is of no concern to Laman and Lemuel; it is the "fifty" they must look | :As to Laban's garrison of fifty, it seems pitifully small for a great city. It would have been just as easy for the author of 1 Nephi to have said fifty thousand and made it really impressive. Yet even the older brothers, though they wish to emphasize Laban's great power, mention only fifty ({{s|1|Nephi|3|31}}), and it is Nephi in answering them who says that the Lord is "mightier than Laban and his fifty" and adds, "or even than his tens of thousands ({{s|1|Nephi|4|1}}). As a high military commander Laban would have his tens of thousands in the field, but such an array is of no concern to Laman and Lemuel; it is the "fifty" they must look | ||
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The Garrison of Fifty
The Garrison of Fifty
- As to Laban's garrison of fifty, it seems pitifully small for a great city. It would have been just as easy for the author of 1 Nephi to have said fifty thousand and made it really impressive. Yet even the older brothers, though they wish to emphasize Laban's great power, mention only fifty (1 Nephi 3:31), and it is Nephi in answering them who says that the Lord is "mightier than Laban and his fifty" and adds, "or even than his tens of thousands (1 Nephi 4:1). As a high military commander Laban would have his tens of thousands in the field, but such an array is of no concern to Laman and Lemuel; it is the "fifty" they must look