when did the mulekites come to america

), During the reign of Jehoahaz, Pharaoh-nechoh came from Egypt and dethroned Jehoahaz and placed Jehoiakim (also known as Eliakim) on the throne. The fact that the Book of Mormon is essentially silent about these other societies is consistent with And Mormon referred to the Mulekites by the name of Mulek, the son of King Zedekiah who came out of Jerusalem with them. The Book of Mormon tells of three relatively small parties (the Jaredites, Lehites, and Mulekites) that left their native homeland in the Old World at different times and through divine guidance traveled to a new promised land, on the American continent. The Book of Mormon states that after escaping from Judah, Mulek traveled to the Americas and established a civilization there. The Book of Mormon begins its story of the Mulekites where the Old Testament story of Zedekiah ends. 1:4.). The Jaredites are one of four peoples (along with the Nephites, Lamanites, and Mulekites) that the Latter-day Saints believe settled in ancient America. Before his death, King Benjamin sent a proclamation “throughout all this land among all this people, or the people of Zarahemla, and the people of Mosiah who dwell in the land” to be gathered together for him to speak to them. Apparently, these men had traveled northward, but missed the land of Zarahemla. His people, known as the Mulekites in the Book of Mormon, named their land Mulek after the king's son (Hel. Even as early as 125 years before the captivity of Judah, the prophet Isaiah warned King Hezekiah: “Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. By Lizzie Wade Jan. 18, 2018 , 10:45 AM. Last of all, Zedekiah’s eyes were put out and he was bound and taken to Babylon. ), Seeing the condition they were in, Mosiah set out to rectify the situation. Limhi sends forty-three explorers to find Zarahemla; instead, they find the destroyed Jaredite civilization and return with the twenty-four gold plates of Ether. This remarkable conversion came largely to a people who only a few generations earlier were a spiritually darkened, atheistic society. Along with "as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord," Mulek escaped into the wilderness, traveled "across the great waters" to the Americas, and founded a new nation. 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. In time the remnants of these two societies merged, but retained the Nephite designation. The Mulekites came to America too. 6:10.) When they had gathered together near the temple built in Zarahemla, the Nephites and Mulekites offered burnt sacrifices according to the law of Moses and gave thanks to the Lord for bringing them out of the land of Jerusalem and appointing just men to teach them to keep the commandments of God. According to the Book of Mormon, when Jerusalem was destroyed by Babylon, during the reign of Zedekiah, all of the sons of Zedekiah were killed except Mulek. The Mulekites are little referred to later, probably because they were amalgamated thoroughly into eclectic Nephite society (Mosiah 25:13). (See 2 Kgs. 322.) See this page in the original 1992 publication. Mulek (/ˈmjuːlɛk/),[1] according to the Book of Mormon, was the only surviving son of Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem. The thirty verses which comprise the Book of Omni, although written by five lesser-known authors, provide answers to many questions. The people of Zarahemla had come from the land of Jerusalem under the leadership of Mulek, the only surviving son of King Zedekiah. Nephi stated that “in the commencement of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, … there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people that they must repent, or the great city of Jerusalem must be destroyed.” (1 Ne. and 130 B.C. Very little information is really given about the Mulekites, who, by descent, outnumbered the Nephites. The people were filled with the Holy Ghost and received a remission of their sins, took upon them the name of Christ, and covenanted to keep God’s commandments. The Mulekites eventually adopted the Nephites' language and religion, and the two peoples formed one nation by establishing Zarahemla as their new capital and naming the Nephite Mosiah as their king.[10]. Hugh Nibley relates the name to his royal origins,[11] and states: Of the Mulekites, he says they are the "Mulekiah, which means 'the king people'". https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mulek&oldid=996009269, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 December 2020, at 01:21. They were led by the last living son of Zedekiah, Mulek. Prior to Alma’s arrival in Zarahemla, the Nephite people in Zarahemla wearied Mosiah with requests to send an expedition to find out what became of the people of Zeniff, for they had heard nothing from them. What is less well known is that the majority of these Saints were the more numerous Mulekites. (See Mosiah 28:11–17. (See Mosiah 7. Jeremiah’s promises apparently fell on deaf ears, for Zedekiah continued to listen to his nationalistic friends. ), With the exception of King Josiah, all of the kings following Hezekiah caused great wickedness in the kingdom of Judah. Later, Ross T. Christensen, an American archeologist, speculated that the Mulekites, who are mentioned in the Book of Mormon, were probably of Phoenician ethnic origin. Alma, in describing the city Bountiful, wrote that Bountiful was “so far northward that it came into the land which had been peopled and been destroyed … , which was discovered by the people of Zarahemla the Mulekites, it being the place of their first landing.” (Alma 22:30. 38:17–18.) by Nephi and other New World scribes. This situation agrees with a number of clues in the Book of Mormon that suggest these colonies quickly interacted with outsiders. Perhaps worst of all, he shed innocent blood until it “filled Jerusalem from one end to another.” (2 Kgs. ), 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.) And Mormon referred to the Mulekites by the name of Mulek, the son of King Zedekiah who came out of Jerusalem with them. The Lord had plans for them to become a righteous nation, but instead, virtually their entire civilization was destroyed because of wickedness and secret combinations. 21:3–6.) After the people of Limhi emigrated to Zarahemla and joined the church established there, Mosiah translated these plates through the use of “interpreters,” or seer stones, divinely preserved and empowered for just such a purpose. In fact, it indicates that it was only the righteous who went with Mosiah to the land of Zarahemla. However, the limited account of their escape from Jerusalem and journey to the promised land clearly shows that it followed a divine plan. 6:10.) The Phoenician theory is also supported in a book written in 1871, by John Denison Baldwin, an American anthropologist. Mosiah commissioned sixteen men, led by a Mulekite named Ammon, to go up to the land of Lehi-Nephi to inquire concerning their brethren. William Whiston, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Kregel Publications, 1974, p. The Lord has not fully revealed his purpose in leading this remnant, including a surviving heir to David’s throne, out of Jerusalem to be … They were at first suspected of being enemies, but after gaining an audience with King Limhi and explaining their purpose in coming, the people rejoiced in anticipation of their release from Lamanite bondage. The story of the Mulekites began in the days of Lehi and Jeremiah, prophets in Jerusalem at the time of the fall of the kingdom of Judah. Well, Israel, of course, silly! Today, the theory of transoceanic crossings to America is a hotly debated topic, and while the majority opinion still resides with the Beringia theory alone, more and more evidence points to transoceanic crossings. The Route of the Mulekites We now turn our attention to another group of Jewish refugees who also made their way to America at about the same time as Lehi, the Mulekites. 216.) [9], The Nephites settled among the Mulekites. ), During Mosiah’s reign, an interesting event occurred: a “large stone” was brought to Mosiah with engravings upon it, and he was able to interpret the writing by the power of God. Not knowing the route to take, the sixteen men, led by Ammon, wandered forty days until they arrived at the Land of Nephi. A paper read at the Twenty-first Annual Symposium on the Archaeology of the Scriptures, held at Brigham Young University on October 16, 1971.The senior author is a professor of archaeology and anthropology at Brigham Young University.Mrs. 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. Mosiah leads righteous Saints to Zarahemla. These nationalistic leaders seemed to have made only a superficial covenant with Nebuchadnezzar, for in 593 B.C., shortly after the Babylonian armies had departed, ambassadors from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Tyre, and Sidon came to Jerusalem to plan a rebellion against Babylon. For the most part, Nephite scribes are uninterested with the Mulekites… They were discovered by Mosiah (Omni 1:14) several centuries after their arrival. They then became amalgamated with the Nephites. (See Mosiah 24.) Although they lived in America during the same period as the Nephites and Lamanites, they did not encounter them until around 200 B.C. The Mulekites had in their possession a stone that told the story of Coriantumr, a survivor of the Jaredites who had encountered the Mulekites and lived among them until his death. Perhaps one of the most well-known stories in the Book of Mormon is that of the people of King Benjamin. Jehoiakim was left in power, but after three years he rebelled and was killed. The Nephites taught the Mulekites their language and united to become one people, appointing Mosiah to be their king. They were led by the last living son of Zedekiah, Mulek. The “Mulekites” (a term never used in the Book of Mormon) are barely mentioned in the Nephite record. When Zedekiah saw them coming, he and his men of war fled out of the gate by the king’s garden and headed toward Jericho. 21:16. ), “And it came to pass that the people of Zarahemla, and of Mosiah, did unite together; and Mosiah was appointed to be their king.” (Omni 1:19. When taught the Nephite language, the Mulekites recounted their descent from Mulek, which was then recorded. Modern anthropological research tells us that the New World was already extensively populated when the Jaredites, Lehites, and Mulekites arrived. 6:10.). The generals then took them up to Riblah, Nebuchadnezzar’s headquarters. In fact, Zarahemla, the city founded by the Mulekites, became to the Nephites what Salt Lake City is to Latter-day Saints today. Critics of the Book of Mormon argue that it contradicts the Bible when it states that one of King Zedekiah's sons (Mulek) escaped and came to the Americas. 6:10) and would later join with the Nephites, who discovered the Mulekites. The "Mulekites" John L. Sorenson Follow this and additional works at:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. (Hel. Then, being warned of the Lord, they “fled eight days’ journey into the wilderness” and established the community called Helam. This would make the journey from the land of Nephi to the land of the Mulekites a total of twenty days. J. Larson April 12, 2016. These forty-three explorers had found a destroyed civilization and feared the worst—they mistakenly thought that the land they had found was Zarahemla. Zedekiah, the brother of Jehoiakim and the grandson of righteous King Josiah, was only twenty-one years old when he began his reign. Just prior to his death, Amaleki completed the Book of Omni by briefly recording the account of King Mosiah’s discovery of the people of Zarahemla—the Mulekites. The people of Zarahemla are thus often referred to as Mulekites. Amaleki continues: “And they journeyed in the wilderness, and were brought by the hand of the Lord across the great waters, into the land where Mosiah discovered them; and they had dwelt there from that time forth.” (Omni 1:16; italics added.) The Nephites sailed over in 600 BCE, the people of Zarahemla (aka the Mulekites) did likewise in 586 BCE, as did Corantumr's people (aka the Jaredites) at the time of the Tower of Babel. 23:34–24:17.). Even worse than the history is the theology of Mormonism, which directly contradicts the Bible in several areas. (See Omni 1:20–22.). The journey takes forty days. 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. The Jaredites & Mulekites were contemporaries for about 200 years until the Jaredite collapse. The Mulekites crossed the ocean and located some distance north of the central Nephite settlements (Helaman 6:10; Mosiah 25:2). “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. Rather, various authors use three different appellations to refer to these people. (See Alma 5:1; Alma 6:1; Alma 27:20.) Retribution followed swiftly. The Lord has not fully revealed his purpose in leading this remnant, including a surviving heir to David’s throne, out of Jerusalem to be reunited with another chosen remnant, the Nephites. Jehoiachin had reigned only three months when Nebuchadnezzar came up again to Jerusalem, besieged it, and took captives back to Babylon. PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROUTE OF MULEK’S COLONY. Jehoiakim had reigned only eleven years when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, overthrew the Egyptian rule and took control of the Kingdom of Judah. 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. The Lord has not fully revealed his purpose in leading this remnant, including a surviving heir to David’s throne, out of Jerusalem to be reunited with another chosen remnant, the Nephites. Their history spans over one thousand years, from 600 BC to 450+ AD and occupies most of the Book of Mormon text. 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. According to ancient Indian legends a people, which I believe were the Mulekites, came from the east. After Alma began teaching and baptizing at the waters of Mormon, he and his followers were discovered by the servants of King Noah. ), Almost like two old acquaintances meeting after a long separation, the people of Mosiah and the people of Zarahemla “rejoiced exceedingly” to see each other. There is absolutely no evidence, outside the Book of Mormon itself, that Nephites ever existed, that they were Hebrews, or that they came from Jerusalem to South America circa 600 BC (1 Nephi 18:23–25). That means for at least 400 years the Nephites, the Mulekites, and the Jaredites all lived on the same continent together. Amaleki referred to them as the “people of Zarahemla,” after their leader Zarahemla. Soon after the arrival of the Nephites and Lamanites came a third group, the followers of Mulek, a son of the Jewish King Zedekiah. 39:1–9.) This is the area called Pachacamac by present-day archaeologists and anthropologists, but in the day of the Mulekites, they called it Zarahemla, for the Lord did bring them “across the great waters, into the land where Mosiah discovered them; and … This man was not new to the Mulekites, for they had found him, and he had lived with them for nine moons until he died. He then left Mattaniah, renamed Zedekiah, in charge and returned to Babylon. Part of their rejoicing was because “the Lord had sent the people of Mosiah with the plates of brass which contained the record of the Jews.” (Omni 1:14.). There they dwelt until a group of righteous Saints led by Mosiah traveled northward and, upon discovering them, joined their society. [5] The people of Mulek established their capital at Zarahemla, north of where Lehi and his people landed. A serious reader of the Book of Mormon will at some point likely ask himself how much is known about the Mulekites and about the role they played among Book of Mormon civilizations. These additions not only added strength to the Church in Zarahemla, but the circumstances of their journeying to Zarahemla may provide us with some information concerning the approximate distances between the Lamanite-Nephite, the Mulekite, and the Jaredite civilizations. 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. The people of Mulek established their capital at Zarahemla, north of where Lehi and his people landed. (Mosiah 1:10; italics added.). Alma travels eight days to Helam, then twelve days to Zarahemla. His eighteen-year-old son Jehoiachin was then instated as king. There Zedekiah’s sons and the nobles of Judah were slain before his eyes. 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. (Omni 1:14–15.) It had been almost four centuries since the Mulekites had left Jerusalem until the people of Mosiah discovered them. From these references, we surmise that Mulek and his people landed near the civilization of the Jaredites, settling south of them. 1987, 60. King Benjamin then delivered the message that he had received from an angel concerning the birth, mission, and atonement of Jesus Christ. Behold, it came to pass that Mosiah discovered that the people of Zarahemla [Mulekites] came out from Jerusalem at the time that Zedekiah, king of Judah, was carried away captive into Babylon. One reason that readers of the Book of Mormon get confused about the Mulekites is that the name Mulekite is never used. From the stone, Mosiah learned of a man named Coriantumr and how his people, the Jaredites, were slain. (Hel. Nebuchadnezzar sent his armies against Jerusalem again. In Ancient America, Baldwin wrote, 20:17–18. The Book of Mormon gives us some general proximities of the Mulekite, the Nephite-Lamanite, and the Jaredite civilizations (see figure 1): “Now the land south was called Lehi, and the land north was called Mulek.” (Hel. By Ross I. and Ruth R. Christensen. During this time, the language of the Mulekites had so changed that the people of Mosiah could not understand them. Although they lived in America during the same period as the Nephites and Lamanites, they did not encounter them until around 200 B.C. "[7], The last surviving Jaredite, Coriantumr, encountered the Mulekites, "and he dwelt with them for the space of nine moons" before he died.[8]. Or perhaps there were few records available to take. ), Thus, the once spiritually benighted and degenerate society of the Mulekites became the ecclesiastical and political capital of the Nephites, at least until the time of Christ. (See Omni 1:20–21.) The journey takes “many days.”. Zedekiah listened to these ill-informed friends and attempted to rebel against Babylon in 588 B.C. The word Mulekite, after Mulek, is commonly used to refer to his group. [18] ( Hel. During the nineteen-month siege, Jeremiah went to Zedekiah with a promise from the Lord: “If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then … this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house: “But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.” (Jer. There they flourished until they were discovered by the Lamanites and wicked priests of King Noah. [3][4] Along with "as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord," Mulek escaped into the wilderness, traveled "across the great waters" to the Americas, and founded a new nation. The author highlights the stone workmanship, mummies, and metallurgy in Peru. The Route of the Mulekites We now turn our attention to another group of Jewish refugees who also made their way to America at about the same time as Lehi, the Mulekites. Nephi, a prophet who lived just prior to the time Christ visited the American continent, underscored the prominence of the Mulekites by asking a simple question, yet one with profound meaning for our day as we reestablish the Church among the children of Lehi: “Yea, and do ye not behold that the seed of Zedekiah are with us?” (Hel. 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… Journeys to and from the land of the Mulekites also shown. [6], In the text of the Book of Mormon, the Mulekites are referred to as the "people of Zarahemla. However, no archaeological evidence supporting the existence of any of these groups has been documented in the scientific community. All the indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere came from Israel at one time or another. They kept traveling until they arrived at the land of the Jaredites and there found the twenty-four gold plates that Ether had left. In the Book of Helaman, Nephi, son of Helaman, referred to them as “the seed of Zedekiah.” (Hel. The chief city of the combined peoples was named after Zarahemla, a descendant of Mulek (Mosiah 25:2). 6:10 .) 8:21.) ), At first, one might ask, Why didn’t the Mulekites bring records, as the Nephites did? • The Mulekites came to America from Jerusalem in 586 B.C. Question: Did one of King Zedekiah's sons, Mulek, escape and come to the New World? Shortly after this division, around 2200 B.C., the Lord led the Jaredites to this land of promise. Apparently, moral corruption had also attended the alteration of language—partly due to the fact that they had taken no scriptural record with them when they left Jerusalem: “And at the time that Mosiah discovered them, they had become exceedingly numerous. The story of Mulek actually adds significant evidence to the authenticity of the Book of Mormon. 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. In the words of Josephus, “After this manner … the kings of David’s race ended their lives, being in number twenty-one, until the last king.” (Josephus, trans. Feature Article WinnerThis Jewish remnant plays a greater role in Book of Mormon history than many realize. Until the Book of Mormon was published in 1830, history had remained silent about any surviving son of the last of the twenty-one kings of Judah. (See Mosiah 2:1–4.) The Book of Mormon chronologist dates this divinely arranged reuniting of these two escaped remnants of Jerusalem sometime between 279 B.C. The Mulekites came to America from Jerusalem in 586 B.C. And they departed out of the land into the wilderness, as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord; and they were led by many preachings and prophesyings. But the Mulekites with only planes between them and the last remnants of the Jaredite nation …. How a Mormon lawyer transformed archaeology in Mexico—and ended up losing his faith. Much of the prior Mulekite history was lost because of their lack of records. Relative geographical locations of the Jaredite, Mulekite, and Nephite/Lamanite civilizations. Author: Tanner, Morgan W. The Jaredites are a people described in the book of Ether (see Book of Mormon: Book of Ether) whose name derives from their first leader, Jared.The Jaredites date to the time of the "great tower" mentioned in the Old Testament (Gen. 11:1-9), which was built in or around Mesopotamia. And Mormon referred to the Mulekites by the name of Mulek, the son of King Zedekiah who came out of Jerusalem with them. When the Nephites were commanded to leave their historic homeland of Lehi-Nephi to flee from the Lamanites, the exiled remnants discovered the city of Zarahemla, to their north. I don't know why it is so set in cement that Lehi, Mulekites, and Jaredites had to have traveled to Mesoamerica by way of the Pacific. (See F. J. Foakes and D. D. Jackson, The Biblical History of the Jews, Cambridge: W. Heffe and Son L.T.D., 1917, p. The person who believes Phoenicians/North Africans came to South America believes these people came at about the time Lehi and party arrived, possibly earlier. Now if you put a mountain range between the Nephites and the other two it makes more sense why they may have had limited contact. 8:21.). The stone containing the story of Coriantumr and the Jaredites that was discovered by the Mulekites also placed the Jaredite civilization north of Zarahemla. ), Ammon and his companions then learned of another expedition of forty-three men sent by King Limhi that had just returned not many days before from a search for Zarahemla. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. They then became amalgamated with the Nephites. The Mulekites were initially introduced to the gospel under King Mosiah and then continued to be taught under his son, King Benjamin. The Mulekites did not migrate very far away from their original homeland in Zarahemla Omni 1:16. Even less is known about their history or their journey to America. 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