Continued from the previous
post, regarding the last half of this
assumptive chronology of the Jaredites.
1365 - The people rise up
in rebellion against Riplakish, killing him in the battles. Riplakish’s
descendants driven out of the land;
1347 - After many years, a
descendant of Riplakish named Morianton, about 30 years of age, wars on the
people, capturing many cities, and over the space of many years conquers the
land;
1337 - Morianton establishes
himself king. He eases the people’s tax burden and they anoint him their king
at about the age of 40. Morianton builds many cities and the people become rich
under his rule;
1250 - Morianton’s son,
Kim, becomes king 8 years before his father’s death;
1242 - Morianton lives to
an exceeding great age, and dies when about 130 years
1222 - Kim’s brother
battles Kim and captures him and places Kim into captivity where he remained
all his days, bearing sons and daughters. One of his sons was Levi .
1177 - Levi serves in
captivity for 42 years after Kim dies;
1135 - Levi, at the age of
42, wars against the king and defeats him, obtaining for himself the kingdom
and becoming king, living to a good old age
1092 - Corom, Levi’s son,
is anointed king, and lives to about the age of 80 ;
1032 - Kish, Corom’s son,
is anointed king;
1012 - Lib, Kish’s son, is
anointed king.
In Lib’s day, the poisonous serpents were destroyed, and
the king hunted in the Land Southward and becomes a great hunter.
A city
is built near the Narrow Neck of Land. The Land Southward preserved as a wilderness for game and
hunting
The people covered all the Land Northward;
972 - Lib dies and his son,
Hearthom is anointed king;
948 - Hearthom loses the
kingdom after reigning 24 years. He spends the rest of his days in captivity;
932 - Hearthom’s son, Heth,
lives in captivity all his days;
907 - Heth’s son, Aaron,
lives in captivity all his days;
882 - Aaron’s son,
Amnigaddah, lives in captivity all his days;
857 - Amnigaddah’s son,
Coriantum, lives in captivity all his days;
832 - Coriantum’s son, Com,
draws away half the kingdom after him. Com reigns for 42 years over his half of
the kingdom, then defeats Amgid, the king, and reigns over the entire kingdom
Robbers
again are in the land, and the ancient secret combinations are revived;
742 - Com’s son, Shiblom,
anointed king and in his days great evil came into the land. The people
rebelled, killed Shiblolm and placed his son, Seth, into captivity
712 - Seth’s son, Ahah,
reigned as king over the people all his days, and “few were his days”;
702 - Etham, the son of
Ahah, made king;
682 - Moron, the son of
Etham, made king;
662 - In Moron’s day, the
people rebelled, and a mighty man, a descendant of the brother of Jared,
defeated Moron and obtained the kingdom, placing Moron into captivity all his
days;642 Moron’s son, Coriantor,
dwelt in captivity all his days;
622 Ether, probably around
40, the son of Coriantor, becomes prophet (and the author of the Book of
Ether), and lives in the days of Coriantumr, probably about 30, who is king
over all the land;
597 Lehi leaves Jerusalem
during King Zedekiah’s first year as King7
592 Ether, about 60, is
cast out for preaching, and dwells in the cavity of a rock during the final
great battles and the last war among the Jaredites;
590 - Ether told to
prophesy unto Coriantumr, that unless he repented, another people would receive
the land of promise for their inheritance and Coriantumr should receive a
burial by them, and every soul should be destroyed save it were Coriantumr;
589 - Coriantumr captured
by Shared and placed in captivity;
588 - Coriantumr’s sons
defeat Shared in a battle and free Coriantumr. There is war on the face of the
entire Land Northward and in one battle Coriantumr kills Shared;
587 Lehi and his family
land in the promised land, in the Land Southward along the west seashore
586 - After two years,
Gilead, the brother of Shared does battle with Coriantumr, now about 54,
defeats part of his Army, and places himself on Coriantumr’s throne in the land
of Moron;
584 - Lib, a member of the
secret society, murders the man who murdered Gilead, and takes over the throne;
583 - Coriantumr does
battle with Lib and kills him, but Shiz, the brother of Lib, gives battle to
Coriantumr. In the following battles two million of Coriantumr’s soldiers, plus
wives and children, are killed;
582 - Mulek leaves
Jerusalem in the 11th year of Zedekiah, king over Judah, when the king was captured
by Nebuchadnexxar II (2 Kings 25:2-3)
579 - After a four-year
hiatus, while both sides gathered all the remainder of the people to their
armies, the final battle takes place, with Coriantumr, now about 58, and Shiz
the last two alive, and Coriantumr kills
Shiz;
576 - Ether, now about 70,
investigates the remains of the battle and records it. Coriantumr revives from
his wounds and wanders for several years, first through the land of his people,
seeing the dead bodies strewn across the land where he realizes the word of the
Lord delivered to him by Ether, has been fulfilled, then through the narrow
neck of land and into the Land Southward, eventually arriving in the Land of
Zarahemla;
568 - Coriantumr, at the
age of about 69, in ill health and near death, is discovered by the people of
Zarahemla (the
descendants of Mulek) who bring him into the city they had built, where
Coriantumr, unable to communicate in his language with the Mulekites, carves a history
of his people on a rock;
567 - After nine months in
Zarahemla (Omni 1:21), and about 12 years after the final Jaredite battle, and
living long enough “to see the fulfilling of the prophecies which had been
spoken concerning another people receiving the land for their inheritance,”
Coriantumr dies, probably about the age of 70, and “receives a burial by them”
(Ether 13:21).
It seems obvious that Coriantumr’s
death was the result, in part, from his many wounds, from years of exposure,
and undoubtedly of remorse and a broken heart for the evil he had done and the
destruction he brought upon his people. The Lord allowed him to live long
enough to wander his homeland and dwell upon the death and annihilation of his
people, and to reach the home of the Mulekites, so the prophecies of Ether
could be fulfilled.
Based on biblical dating,
we know that the Jaredites left Mesopotamia in the year 2116 B.C., and arrived
in the land of promise about 8 years later, with the final battle that wiped
them out occurring around 567 B.C., meaning their nation lasted 1550 years,
1541 of those years in the land of promise. By comparison, the Western Roman
Empire lasted 500 years, and the Eastern Roman Empire lasted 1400 years; the
Nephite nation lasted about 1000 years; the Lamanites lasted in various forms
from about 550 B.C. to about 1521 A.D., or over 2000 years; England, under
various royal lines, has lasted about 943 years, not counting the earlier
period before the Conquest.
Once again, these dates are
assumptive, but based on the events and timing given in the Book of Ether.
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