8 May 1833 * Wednesday
8 preached at 4 P.M about 1 mile west of Troopsvill I
spoke from Jen [Genesis] 48-& 49 Dut [Deuteronomy] 33 and Is [Isaiah] 11
Eze [Ezekiel] 37 (Brigham Young Journal, May 8, 1833, in The Brigham Young
Journals, ed. Brent M. Rogers, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, and Andrew H. Hedges
[Provo, Utah: BYU Press; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023], 1:10)
The editors
to the volume add the following note:
These biblical chapters offer insights on the gathering
of Israel and the blessings promised to the children of Israel in the last
days. Young may have been using these chapters as scriptural examples to teach
New Yorkers of the importance of gathering with the church in the western
locales of Kirtland, Ohio, and Jackson County, Missouri. Joseph Smith
revelations had directed church members to gather to form a Zion community.
(Ibid., 10 n. 31)