How long did it take King Benjamin’s people to gather at the temple?

Thomas R. Valletta

“In Mosiah 1:10, Benjamin asked his son to send out a proclamation for the people to gather ‘on the morrow.’ The observation has been made that Zarahemla must have been a small country, if all the people in it could have been notified one day to come to conference at the capital the next day,” but “the morrow” also “stands for soon or shortly. … In 3 Ne. 1:13 we read that the Lord promised the Prophet Nephi, ‘On the morrow come I into the world.’ The people understood that. ‘They began to know that the Son of God must shortly appear.’ (Verse 17)” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 2:34).

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