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Scriptures cited by both works

KJV scripture VoH Page BoM Use? Comments and/or text (as it appears in View of the Hebrews)

Isaiah 6:11

  • 43
  • Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant; and the houses without man; and the land be utterly desolate; and the Lord have removed man far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 11:1

  • 56
  • ...the stem from the root of Jesse is promised....

Isaiah 11:11

  • 56–57
  • And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again, the second time, to gather the remnant of his people, who shall be left, from Assyria and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Humah, and from the isles of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah, from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 11:15

  • 57
  • ...seven streams...

Isaiah 14:1

  • 62–63
  • For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them on their own land. And the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 49:18-23

  • 63
  • VoH only mentions the verses; it does not cite the text. Book of Mormon reproduces the entire chapter of Isaiah 49.

Isaiah 49:18-22

  • 70–72
  • removing to and fro; left alone; Who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had [have – BoM] they been?

Isaiah 11:12

  • 70
  • ...assemble the outcasts of Israel; and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 11:12

  • 242
  • ...where God sets his hand a second time to gather his Hebrew family from all nations and regions beyond sea; doubtless from America, as well as other nations; and it is promised, "He shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."

Isaiah 11:13

  • 72
  • The envy also of Ephraim [also, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off – BoM] shall depart; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

Isaiah 49:21

  • 73
  • ...these, where had [have-BoM] they been?

Isaiah 3:18-21

  • 110
  • The bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet; their cauls, and round tires like the moon; their chains, bracelets, mufflers, bonnets, ornaments of the legs; head bands, tablets, ear rings, rings, and nose-jewels; the mantles, the wimples; and the crisping pins.

Isaiah 3:24-25

  • 111
  • They are represented by the prophet as sitting on the ground; having their secret parts discovered; having given to them instead of a sweet smell, a stench; instead of a girdle, a rent; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth; and burning, instead of beauty.

Isaiah 11:

  • 232–233
  • Ephraim and Judah are both restored, the one from his "dispersed." the other from his "outcast" state; and their mutual envies are forever healed. And the places from which they are recovered are noted; among which are "the isles of the sea;" or lands away over the sea, and "the four corners of the earth."

Isaiah 5:26

  • 235
  • ...in both of which passages [see below for other], the hiss was to call distant heathen....

Isaiah 7:18

  • 235
  • ...in both of which passages [see above for other], the hiss was to call distant heathen

Isaiah 5:13

  • 236
  • Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge.

Isaiah 7:8

  • 236–237
  • ...within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people.

Isaiah 10:20-22

  • 255
  • And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the Mighty God. For though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea; yet a remnant of them shall return.

Isaiah 49:1,11-13

  • 260
  • Listen, O isles, unto me; (or ye lands away over the sea) hearken ye people from afar. I will make all my mountains a way; and my highways shall be exalted. Behold, these shall come from far; and lo, these from the north, and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.--Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains; for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

Isaiah 11:12

  • 274–275
  • And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah YYYY:XXXX

  • 274
  • It is predicted, in Isai. xi. 13, as one peculiarity of these two branches of Israel, after their final restoration, that they shall envy each other no more.

Questionable parallels

A few scriptures are alluded to by View of the Hebrews, but it is difficult to see them as actual parallels in the use of scripture, since one is a grammatic example ignored by the Book of Mormon, and one is a reference to John the Baptist. Joseph Smith would be far more likely to know the reference to John the Baptist from the New Testament than he would to crib the idea from Ethan Smith's use of the Old Testament:

KJV scripture VoH Page BoM Use? Comments and/or text (as it appears in View of the Hebrews)

Isaiah 40:3

  • 256–257
  • This is about John the Baptist, and more plausibly from NT than Isaiah (though NT is citing Isaiah, of course): "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness; Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God."

Isaiah 55:1

  • 237

(VoH does not cite verse directly.)

  • Ho every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters [Ethan Smith uses only as a grammatical example.]