LDS: What significance does the "sword of Laban" have?
"...when Joseph and Oliver went there, the hill opened, and they walked into a cave, in which there was a large and spacious room. He says he did not think, at the time, whether they had the light of the sun or artificial light; but that it was just as light as day. They laid the plates on a table; it was a large table that stood in the room. Under this table there was a pile of plates as much as two feet high, and there were altogether in this room more plates than probably many wagon loads...The first time they went there the sword of Laban hung upon the wall; but when they went again it had been taken down and laid upon the table across the gold plates; it was unsheathed, and on it was written these words: "This sword will never be sheathed again until the kingdoms of this world become the kingdom of our God and his Christ."
http://journalofdiscourses.org/Vol_19/JD19-036.html
There seems to be a sort of mystical aura, like that of excalibur surrounding this sword....
1 Nephi 4:
"Therefore I did obey the voice of the Spirit, and took Laban by the hair of the head, and I smote off his head with his own sword....
And after I had smitten off his head with his own sword, I took the garments of Laban and put them upon mine own body; yea, even every whit; and I did gird on his armor about my loins.
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...And he supposed me to be his master, Laban, for he beheld the garments and also the sword girded about my loins."
D&C 17:
1 Behold, I say unto you, that you must rely upon my word, which if you do with full purpose of heart, you shall have a view of the plates, and also of the breastplate, the sword of Laban, the Urim and Thummim, which were given to the brother of Jared upon the mount, when he talked with the Lord face to face, and the miraculous directors which were given to Lehi while in the wilderness, on the borders of the Red Sea.
Apparently the sword was shown to witnesses of the Book of Mormon.
The sword was passed down with other articles from generation to generation in the BoM.
The story related in the JoD was one passed on by Oliver Cowdery and others. JoD is an important collection of sermons given by church leaders.
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