2 Kings 12 - 15

As I read these chapters this morning, the thought that kept coming to my mind was the words of Jacob -

"...I, Jacob, began to be old; and the record of this people being kept on the other plates of Nephi, wherefore, I conclude this record, declaring that I have written according to the best of my knowledge, by saying that the time passed away with us, and also our lives passed away like as it were unto us a dream..." (Book of Mormon Jacob 7:26)

In these few chapters, the lives of multiple kings of Israel and Judah are briefly covered. Then each "slept with his fathers" and were either buried in "Samaria with the kings of Israel" or "at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David."

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (New Testament Mark 8:36)

"...this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors." (Book of Mormon Alma 34:32)

"...I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.
34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.
35 For behold, if ye have procrastinated the day of your repentance even until death, behold, ye have become subjected to the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his; therefore, the Spirit of the Lord hath withdrawn from you, and hath no place in you, and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final state of the wicked." (Book of Mormon Alma 34:33 - 35)

And penitent and -

"...the righteous shall sit down in his kingdom, to go no more out; but their garments should be made white through the blood of the Lamb." (Book of Mormon Alma 34:36)