Nephi and his his brothers returned to Jerusalem to get the plates of brass and tried to work out how best to get them. Their plan failed when Laman was picked to go and ask for the plates and Laban, who possessed the plates, rejected him, violently. All of the brothers were upset by what had happened, maybe thinking that this was going to be easy. Nephi's brothers were ready to go back empty handed but Nephi knew that they needed to accomplish what they had come for. In verse 15 he makes a covenant that they will not leave until they finish the job they were sent to do.
Nephi's idea is to try and buy the plates from Laban. He says that they should go and get the riches they left behind, reminding them that they left them for a reason. I suppose that Nephi's brothers were not immediately sold on his idea because he proceeds to remind them of why all this is happening and works to convince them to continue trying. Nephi reminds then that it was not just Lehi's idea that they leave in the first place but that he was following what he was commanded to do. Also, that Jerusalem would be destroyed and that Lehi himself was in danger of losing his life because of how the people had rejected the prophets. Jeremiah 26: 20-24 speaks of one of those prophets who, after prophesying the same thing as Lehi, also fled Jerusalem but was hunted down and killed for his prophesies. This threat that Lehi faced was real and Nephi and his brothers would likely have known the danger Lehi was in.
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