Church History
Doctrine and Covenants 41–44


“Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources: Doctrine and Covenants 41–44,” Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources (2025)

Doctrine and Covenants 41–44, Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources

Doctrine and Covenants 41–44

White nineteenth-century building with a broad covered walkway in the foreground. Yellow clapboard house with a red door in the distance.

Newel K. Whitney & Co. store (foreground), Kirtland, Ohio, USA. Home of Newel K. and Elizabeth Ann Whitney (background), where Joseph and Emma Smith lived for about four weeks in early 1831.

Historical Background

Revelations in Context

Essays on the background of each revelation

“A Bishop unto the Church”

D&C 41, 42, 51, 54, 57

The Law

D&C 42

“I Quit Other Business”: Early Missionaries

D&C 42, 75, 79, 80, 84, 99

“All Things Must Be Done in Order”

D&C 28, 43

Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days

Narrative history of events surrounding the revelations

Volume 1, Chapter 11

Ye Shall Receive My Law

Volume 1, Chapter 12

After Much Tribulation

Volume 1, Chapter 26

A Holy and Consecrated Land

People

Biographical facts and historical images of individuals associated with the revelations

Places

Maps and information about places associated with the revelations from The Joseph Smith Papers, Historic Sites, and other helpful sources

Events

Timeline placing each revelation in the context of key events in the Church’s first century

View the chronology

Topics

Essays on subjects related to the revelations

Bishop

Church Discipline

Consecration and Stewardship

Succession of Church Leadership

United Firm (“United Order”)

Sources

Historical background and the earliest version of each section of the Doctrine and Covenants, as published in The Joseph Smith Papers and the Church History Library catalog

Revelation, 4 February 1831 [D&C 41]

Revelation, 9 February 1831 [D&C 42:1–72]

Revelation, 23 February 1831 [D&C 42:74–93]

Revelation, February 1831–A [D&C 43]

Revelation, February 1831–B [D&C 44]