Chap. IX.
MORMON CHRONOLOGY.
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(No. V.) a detailed chronological table of Mormon events: it is compiled from both parties, and has at least one merit—impartiality.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF MORMON.
(By Elder James Marsden, and printed in the Compendium of Faith and Doctrines.)
B.C.
- 600. Lehi, Sariah, and their four sons, Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi, left Jerusalem by the commandment of God, and journeyed into the wilderness of Arabia (p. 17, 44, 97, pars. 3, 47, 4).
- 592. Lehi and his family arrived at the land Bountiful, so called because of its much fruit. Its modern name is Arabia Felix, or Arabia the Happy (p. 36, par. 17).
- 570. Jacob and Joseph were consecrated priests and teachers over the people of Nephi (p. 66, par. 5).
- 560. Nephi was commanded to make a second volume of plates (p. 67, par. 6).
- 545. Nephi commanded Jacob to write on the small plates such things as he considered most precious (p. 114, par. 1).
- 421. Jacob having committed the records into the hands of his son Enos, and Enos being old, he gave the records into the hands of his son Jarom (p. 133, 136, pars. 9, 7).
- 400. The people of Nephi kept the law of Moses, and they rapidly increased in numbers, and were greatly prospered (p. 137, par. 3).
- 362. Jarom being old, delivered the records into the hands of his son Omni (p. 138, par. 6).
- 324. Omni was a wicked man, but he defended the Nephites from their enemies (p. 138, par. 2).
- 280. Amaron delivered the plates to his brother Chemish (p. 139, par. 3).
- 124. After Abinadom, the son of Chemish, Amaleki,[1] the son of Abinadom, King Benjamin, and Mosiah had successively kept the records, Mosiah, the son of King Benjamin, was consecrated king (p. 157, par. 2).
- 121. Mosiah sent sixteen men to the land of Lehi-Nephi to inquire concerning their brethren (p. 158, par. 2).
- 91. Mosiah died, having conferred the records upon Alma, who was the son of Alma. Mosiah also established a republican form
- ↑ While Amaleki was keeping the records, Mosiah, the father of King Benjamin, and as many as would hearken to the voice of God, were commanded to go into the wilderness, and were led by the power of the Almighty to the Land of Zarahemla, where they discovered a people who left Jerusalem at the time that Zedekiah was carried away captive into Babylon. They were led by Mulek, the only surviving son of Zedekiah; and on their arrival in America, met with Coriantumr, the late king of the Jaredites, who were slain a little previous to the immigration of Mulek and his people (p. 139, 40, 411, 549, pars. 6, 9).
