142. 7 bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. 143. 7 hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto those that go down to the pit. _Isa_. 14. 15 yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 42. 16 I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not. 61. 1 to proclaim liberty to the captives, to open the prison to those that are bound. _Ezek_. 26. 20 bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth. 31. 14-18 for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth. Thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude. 32. 18-32 several nations enumerated who were slain by the sword, and whose multitudes went down to the pit. _Zech_. 9. 11 by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit. _Matt_. 12. 32 whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him in this world, nor the world to come. _Luke_ 12. 47, 48 some shall be beaten with few, some with many stripes. _Acts_ 2. 34 for David is not ascended into heaven. _Rev_. 5. 13 every creature which is in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. 20. 7 when the thousand years are ended, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. Doctrine and Covenants. _Sec_. 19. 6 it is not written that there shall be no end to this torment. 45. 17 as ye have looked upon the long absence of your spirits from your bodies to be a bondage, I will show you how the day of redemption will come. 45, 46. 54 and then shall the heathen nations be redeemed. 78. 12 be delivered over to the buffetings of Satan, until the day of redemption. _Sec_. 82. 21. THE FIRST PRESIDENCY AND TWELVE APOSTLES. THE FIRST PRESIDENCY. It is revealed unto us in _Doc. & Cov_., 20. 2, 3, that Joseph Smith, Jun., was called of God and ordained an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ to be the first Elder of this church; and that Oliver Cowdery was also called of God, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to be the second Elder of this church. In _sec_. 18. we are informed that Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer were called with that same calling with which the apostle Paul was called; but of Joseph Smith. Jun., the Lord said, 8th _verse_, "Marvel not that I have called him unto mine own purpose, which purpose is known in me." In _sec_. 27. 12, the Savior says: "And also with Peter, and James, and John, whom I have sent unto you, by whom I have ordained you and confirmed you to be Apostles, and especial witnesses of my name, and bear the keys of your ministry, and of the same things which I revealed unto them." Joseph, the first Apostle, continued as directed of the Lord from time to time to organize and develop the offices and ordinances of the church, for the saints were informed, in _sec_. 43. 3, "Ye shall know assuredly that there is none other appointed unto you to receive commandments and revelations until he be taken, if he abide in me."