In fact, it indicates that it was only the righteous who went with Mosiah to the land of Zarahemla. PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROUTE OF MULEK’S COLONY. In the Book of Helaman, Nephi, son of Helaman, referred to them as “the seed of Zedekiah.” (Hel. And Mormon referred to the Mulekites by the name of Mulek, the son of King Zedekiah who came out of Jerusalem with them. Please give me the BoM verses stating that the Mulekites sailed to "the promissed land" Why the Nephites and Jaredites went in 600BC to the promised land in so called America and the Mulekites to Zarahemlah, evidently no promised land and not in America. Perhaps one of the most well-known stories in the Book of Mormon is that of the people of King Benjamin. (See Mosiah 23:3, 19.) • The Mulekites came to America from Jerusalem in 586 B.C. Wayne May shares his research into the most probable location of the Mulekite civilization in North America and the lost temple of Zarahemla in modern-day Iowa state. America did not remain uninhabited for long. ), With the exception of King Josiah, all of the kings following Hezekiah caused great wickedness in the kingdom of Judah. When taught the Nephite language, the Mulekites recounted their descent from Mulek, which was then recorded. This would make the journey from the land of Nephi to the land of the Mulekites a total of twenty days. Some come from the Appalachian region of the U.S. which spans over Canada and numerous states in the U.S. Like African-Americans, Melungeons also have a painful past in America – “have been maligned and denied t… Nevertheless, they had had many wars and serious contentions, and had fallen by the sword from time to time; and their language had become corrupted; and they had brought no records with them; and they denied the being of their Creator; and Mosiah, nor the people of Mosiah, could understand them.” (Omni 1:17. Very little information is really given about the Mulekites, who, by descent, outnumbered the Nephites. Their history spans over one thousand years, from 600 BC to 450+ AD and occupies most of the Book of Mormon text. William Whiston, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications, 1974, p. Even less is known about their history or their journey to America. King Benjamin then delivered the message that he had received from an angel concerning the birth, mission, and atonement of Jesus Christ. “And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” (2 Kgs. The chief city of the combined peoples was named after Zarahemla, a descendant of Mulek (Mosiah 25:2). (See Ensign, Jan. 1987, p. Amaleki says: “Behold, I will speak unto you somewhat concerning Mosiah, who was made king over the land of Zarahemla; for behold, he being warned of the Lord that he should flee out of the land of Nephi, and as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord should also depart out of the land with him, into the wilderness—, “And it came to pass that he did according as the Lord had commanded him. 1987, 60. (See Mosiah 24.) What a joy it is for us to realize that as we teach gospel truths to the indigenous people in the areas of Book of Mormon heritage that we are offering gospel truths not only to the descendants of Lehi—but also to those of the colony of Mulek. They were discovered by Mosiah (Omni 1:14) several centuries after their arrival. There Zedekiah’s sons and the nobles of Judah were slain before his eyes. Nebuchadnezzar sent his armies against Jerusalem again. The scriptural account of the uniting of Mosiah’s group with the Mulekites, referred to as the people of Zarahemla, explicitly shows that their meeting was no coincidence. Jehoiachin had reigned only three months when Nebuchadnezzar came up again to Jerusalem, besieged it, and took captives back to Babylon. It is one of four groups (the others being the Nephites, the Lamanites, and the Jaredites) described in the Book of Mormon as having settled in the ancient Americas. ), During the reign of Jehoahaz, Pharaoh-nechoh came from Egypt and dethroned Jehoahaz and placed Jehoiakim (also known as Eliakim) on the throne. Amaleki referred to them as the “people of Zarahemla,” after their leader Zarahemla. Furthermore, the Mulekites would have sailed right past other civilizations that likely existed in the area, descendants of Jaredites or other groups who had come to the continent. 21:16. (See Jer. In Ancient America, Baldwin wrote, The Mulekites are little referred to later, probably because they were amalgamated thoroughly into eclectic Nephite society (Mosiah 25:13). It became the center stake, as it were, for the righteous Saints. Perhaps under the circumstances of their escape there was no time to gather them—to return to the city would have meant death at the hands of the Babylonian army. It is claimed that Abraham Lincoln, who became America’s 16thPresident on this day in 1860, was a Melungeon; a person of European, African-American and Native American ancestry. He then left Mattaniah, renamed Zedekiah, in charge and returned to Babylon. ), While abridging the Book of Ether, Mormon mentioned that the Jaredites were even north of the Mulekites: “And it came to pass that their flocks began to flee before the poisonous serpents, towards the land southward, which was called by the Nephites Zarahemla.” (Ether 9:31.) 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