Footnotes
[1]. It is to be understood that in this chapter I deal merely with the migrations spoken of in the Book of Mormon; and by no means enter upon consideration of the migrations to the western hemisphere during the last two thousand years.
[2]. See sixth letter of Oliver Cowdery on "Early Scenes and Incidents in the Church," Messenger and Advocate, vol. I, p. 112, 1835, where the above name is given as the name of the "Brother of Jared."
[3]. Such is the theory of the late Orson Pratt. See foot note "h" Book of Ether, chap. 2. There is nothing in the Book of Ether which positively determines the course of their travels, but as there is some reason for believing that the Jaredite colony landed on the western shores of North America, there seems to be some grounds for the belief that they were led eastward across the continent of Asia to the shores of what is to us the Pacific Ocean.
[4]. According to Orson Pratt. See foot note "h," Book of Ether, chap. 6:12. Also Book of Ether, chap. 7:6.
[5]. Ether 6:18.
[6]. Ether 7:6.
[7]. Ether 7:16.
[8]. Alma 22:32.
[9]. Ether 7:6, 16, 17.
[10]. Note "h" on Ether 6:12.
[11]. Dictionary of the Book of Mormon, Art. Mormon, p. 245.
[12]. Mosiah 21:25, 26.
[13]. Mosiah 8:8-11, also Helaman 3:6.
[14]. Mosiah 7:8-11. These plates were afterwards translated by the Nephite King, Mosiah, who was a seer; that is, one who could use Urim and Thummim. The record which he translated gave an account of the people who were destroyed, "from the time they were destroyed back to the building of the great Tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people. * * * Yea, and even from that time until the creation of Adam." (Mosiah 28:11, 17). Subsequently Moroni gave an abridged translation of the same record which he called the "Book of Ether," Ether being the name of the prophet who wrote the book so translated.
[15]. See the whole Book of Ether.
[16]. Ether 10:21.
[17]. Ether 9:1-3.
[18]. Ether 9:9.
[19]. See foot note to Ether 9:3.
[20]. Ether 10:21.
[21]. Ether 10:21.
[22]. Ether 9:16-20.
[23]. Ether 10:22-28.
[24]. Ether 1:42, 43.
[25]. Ether 9.
[26]. Ether 15 and foot note "b" p. 606.
[27]. Ether 6:23.
[28]. Ether 6 and 7.
[29]. Ether 3:9-16.
[30]. Ether 9:22.
[31]. Ibid. 10:28.
[32]. The orthography of the word cannot be determined, it is spelled "Shiblom" in the passage above, and Shiblon in another.
[33]. Ether 13.
[34]. Ether 15:33.
[35]. The story of Zedekiah's reign in Jerusalem, the conditions that obtained among the people, and the warnings which God sent by many prophets (Lehi among the rest) is thus told in II Chronicles, chapter 36: "Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord. And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel. Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy."
[36]. Nephi 2:20.
[37]. See synopsis First Book Nephi, heading chapter 1.
[38]. Richards' and Little's Compendium, p. 273; I Nephi 16:13, 14, 43. Also chapter 17:1.
[39]. Richards' and Little's Compendium, p. 272-273. The accuracy of this is questioned.
[40]. Reynolds, B. M. Chronology, Richards' and Little's Compendium, p. 273.
[41]. II Nephi 5.
[42]. II Nephi 5:22-25.
[43]. Book of Omni 4:7.
[44]. That is, four hundred years from the time Lehi left Jerusalem the latter event being 600 B. C.
[45]. Dict. of B. of M., Art. Nephi, Land of p. 295.
[46]. Such is the theory of Orson Pratt—see note "g," Book of Omni, old edition Book of Mormon.
[47]. II Nephi 5:8, Omni 1:12, 27. Mos. 7. Mos. 9:1. See collection of ref. under "b." II Nephi 5.
[48]. See Mosiah 23:1-5, 19. Also Mos. 24:20, 24. Also foot note "t" in ch. 24, by Orson Pratt; and Dict. of B. of M., pp. 198, 199.
[49]. It is supposed by some that this River Sidon is identical with the River Magdalena in the northern part of South America. (See Dictionary of Book of Mormon, p. 339, and Orson Pratt's note "g," Alma 2:15 old edition.)
[50]. Josephus, Antiq., bk. 10:8.
[51]. Josephus, Antiq., bk. 10, ch. 8. See also II Kings, ch. 25.
[52]. Omni 1:14-17.
[53]. Helaman 6:10.
[54]. This is upon the supposition that what is known among the Nephites especially as the land "Desolation," in contradistinction to the Nephite land "Bountiful," is identical with the region known to moderns as Central America; and the consideration of Alma 22:29-33. See also Dict. B. of M., p. 110.
[55]. Alma 8:7.
[56]. Omni 1:20-22.
[57]. Mosiah 28:7-14 and Mosiah 28.
[58]. Sec Dictionary of B. of M. (Reynolds), p. 165 et seq.
[59]. Lehi is plainly declared to be of the stock of Manasseh, (Alma 10:3); and it is supposed that Ishmael and his family, who joined Lehi and his family in the journey to the promised land, were of the tribe of Ephraim (See Dict. Book of Mormon, p. 155, Art. Ishmael). There are promises respecting Ephraim which cannot be realized except through the seed of Ephraim dwelling upon the land of America. See Orson Pratt's Prophetic Evidences of the Book of Mormon.
[60]. See Gen. 11.