Intro to 2 Nephi 13

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Isaiah’s vision of the effects of wickedness continued from the preceding chapter. For Nephi and his people this would have been a prophetic confirmation of the suffering and degradation they were spared by fleeing Jerusalem….Given that Nephi included these chapters of Isaiah in his record for the benefit of those of our day, we properly see in this description of Judah’s haughtiness, pride, and intoxication with fashion a pattern and warning for the last days.

Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 4 vols. [salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987-1992], 1:278-279

These pitiful circumstances describe well the condition of Jerusalem’s citizens after the city’s destruction in 587 B.C. The prophet Jeremiah, an eyewitness to Judah’s fall, recorded it vividly (Jer. 40-42).

Keith A. Meservy, Studies in Scripture, Vol. 4, ed. Kent P. Jackson [salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1993], 93