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HA'GOTH
An ingenious Nephite who built ships on the west coast, probably C. A., for emigration northward. In B. C. 55 he built his first ship in which many Nephites took passage northward, the definite landing place not being given. In 54 B. C., H. built other ships. The first ship returned and many others entered therein and set out northward (B. C. 54), but they were never heard of again. In the same year another ship set sail, of the fate of which the Nephites knew not. It is more than possible that the Pacific islands were peopled by those voyagers the Nephites supposed were lost. The place of launching these ships was in the land Bountiful near Desolation. Al. xxx:6-13.

HA'MATH
The Bible H., a Syrian city. Mentioned in 2 Ne. ix:86-131 in a quotation from Isa. x and xi.

HEARTH'OM
A Jaredite king. The kingdom was taken from him after he had reigned twenty four years and he spent the remainder of his life in captivity. He was son of Lib whom he succeeded and father of Heth who spent his life in captivity. He was the twelfth progenitor of the prophet Ether. Eth. i:6; iv:60-90.

Heaven
See Paradise.

HE'BREW
Occurs only in Morm. iv:98-103 in reference to the H. language which the author says had been altered by them; that its employment for writing on the plates would have taken more space, but would have entailed less imperfection.

HE'LAM
A Nephite contemporary with Alma I. He was of the land of Lehi-Nephi and was the first one baptized by Alma in the waters of Mormon (q. v.), a place where the believers retired that they might without molestation serve the Lord. A peculiarity of this baptism was that both- H. and Alma were buried. (About 145 B. C.) Mos. ix:43-50.

HE'LAM, City of
In the land of H. It was evidently the chief or capital city. It is the land that is generally referred to (q. v.). Mos. xi: 13-43,

HE'LAM, Land of
Midway between the land of Mormon and the land of Zarahemla. It was eight days journey from the locality called Mormon and about thirteen days from the land of Zarahemla, Mormon being a place not remotely situated from the city of Lehi-Nephi, the capital of the land of Nephi. H. was the land surrounding the city H. (q. v.). This land was settled by Alma and people when they fled from the armies of King Noah which sought their destruction at the place or waters of Mormon. After they had dwelt for a period of time in H. and were discovered by the Lamanites and were reduced to oppression for a season, they evacuated this place and fled to Zarahemla. Afterward it fell into the hands of the Lamanites. These occurrences were undoubtedly about the middle or latter part of the 2d century B. C. Mos. ix:65-73; xi: l-80.

HE'LA-MAN
(1) Son of King Benjamin and brother of King Mosiah and Helorum. He is the last named and probably the youngest, and lived in the land of Zarahemla. His brother began to reign in 124 B. C. and his father died 121 B. C. Only mention of him is in Mos. i:l-13.

HE'LA-MAN, Sr
(2) Son of Alma, Jr., and father of H., Jr. He was the eldest of three sons, his brothers being Shiblon and Corianton. He is not introduced to us till 75 B. C. when his two younger brothers were old enough to accompany their father on a mission to the Zoramites. He was undoubtedly born in the land of Zarahemla where he died 56 B. C., about sixteen years after the mysterious disappearance of his father. Helaman held the sacred records, which descended to his brother Shiblon after the death of H. who had received them from his father. It is nineteen years from the time he first poses in history to the time of his death.

Our present character was contemporary with the first Moroni and with the apostates Amalickiah and Ammoron; also with the brave Teancum and with Pahoran who was driven from the judgment seat by the "kingmen." Only two of the five named survived H., Moroni dying the year after H., and Pahoran dying five years later.

Helaman was a general as well as a prophet and preacher, and took a prominent part in the Lamanite-Nephite war which was of about thirteen years continuance-B. C. 73-60 - with intermissions. When the 2,000 young Ammonites volunteered to take up arms (63 B. C.) to assist their brethren the Nephites, at their request H. marched at their head. He continued in this war till the Lamanites were all driven from the land of Zarahemla and hostilities were for a few years suspended, whence he returned to spiritual duties (60 B. C.) and endeavored to regulate things in the church. Important aspects of his career are visible in the "commandments" of his father to him, and his epistle to Moroni during the military campaign. Al. xvi:78-84, 254-261; xx. 1 32, xxi. 180 186, xxiv. 67 -79; xxvi-xxix.

HE'LA-MAN, Jr.
(3) Son of the preceding and father of the second Nephi, and of Lehi. In 53 B. C. he received the sacred record from Shiblon, his uncle. In 49 B. C. he was elected to the chief judgeship in the land of Zarahemla in which office he administered till the time of his death (38 B. C.), having held that important trust for twelve years. He was succeeded in the same year by his son Nephi, who also received into custody the plates his father held.

It is during the term of H. that the notorious Gadianton is introduced to us, who tried to accomplish the murder of H. and enthrone himself on the judgment seat. He was detected and fled to the wilderness; hence the "Gadianton robbers," who proved the overthrow of the Nephite people. During the time of H. the people spread numerically and geographically, some emigrating northward. Al. xxx:14-21; Hel. i:37; ii:35.

HE'LA-MAN, Book of
The tenth book of the B. of M. between the books of Alma and 3 Nephi. It has but five chapters and dates from 50 B. C. to or near the birth of Christ. It extends from the 40th to the 90th year of the reign of the Judges, exclusively. It extends from the 40th to the 90th year of the reign of The Judges, inclusive. It therefore covers about 50 years. Some of its prominent characters are: Pahoran, Helaman II, Kishkumen and Gadianton, Nephi and Lehi, Moronihah, Cezoram, Samuel, the Lamanite. Its characters, events and scenes were for the most part in the land of Zarahemla. The book of H. was constructed by Mormon (as the last paragraph or verse indicates) from "the record of H. and his sons."

It informs us of the origin of the Gadianton band; of the exclusion of all the Nephites for a time from the land southward; of the wonderful success of Nephi and Lehi in converting the Nephites and Lamanites, and of their miraculous deliverance in the land of Nephi; of the prophecies of Samuel the Lamanite.

HE'LEM Brother of Ammon (q. v.) who was a descendand of Zarahemla. He was one of the sixteen men who left the land of Zarahemla (121 B. C.) in the reign of Mosiah II to go to the land of Nephi in search of their brethren. Mos. v:l-14.

HELL
The B. of M. says that h. "hath no end" - that it is an "eternal gulf of misery ... from whence no traveler can return" - that it is "for ever and ever and hath no end" - is "an endless h." - is a "lake of fire and brimstone which is endless torment"-that the smoke from the lake "ascendeth up for ever and ever" - that it is an "everlasting h.", and that the "punishment is as eternal as the life of the soul." See 1 No. iii:208; 2 Ne. i:27, 28; vi:43,54; Mos. i:127-129; Hel. ii:154; Al. xix:98; Moro. viii:14; 1 Ne. iv:49.

The above is not out of harmony with the N. T. However in 1930 the Lord told Martin Harris that He (God) was endless and eternal and the punishments regardless of duration, partook of the same character.--D. and C. Sec. 18. See Paradise and Heaven.

HE-LO'RUM
Brother of King Mosiah II and son of King Benjamin. He was a Nephite, well educated by his father. His life was, beyond reasonable doubt, spent in the land of Zarahemla where his brother began to reign 124 B. C. Mos. i:1-13.

HEM
Brother of Ammon and Helaman (q. v.), who accompanied them as one of the "sixteen men" to the land of Nephi. Mos. v:l-14.

HER'MOUNTS
A wilderness in the n. w. of the land of Zarahemla. It was infested with ravenous beasts which preyed on the Lamanites and Amlicites, who died of their wounds when driven there by the Nephites (86 B. C.). Alma i:93-97.

HESH'LON, Plains of
Probably in Mexico, the scene of a battle between Shared and Coriantumr in the last generation of the Jaredites, in which the former was victorious. Eth. vi:24-36.

HETH
(1) A Jaredite king; son of Com whom he succeeded, and father of Shez who succeeded him. He was the eighth descendant, in the royal line, of Jared who came from Babel. He acquired the throne by murdering his father for the accomplishment of which he had recourse to the secret plans of old. Prophets appeared foretelling famine, curse and destruction if they repented not. Many perished by the plague of poisonous serpents; others, including H. and his household, died in the famine. Eth. i:l-14; iv:18-47.

HETH
(2) A Jaredite prince. He was born in captivity and died in captivity as also his son Aaron (q. v.); and his father spent the latter part of his life in captivity in which he died. Heth was the eleventh progenitor of the prophet Ether. Eth. i:1-14; iv:60-90.

HETH, Land of
Where Jared, son of the Jaredite king, Omer, retired, when he rebelled against his father. Scene. probably Mexico. Eth. iii:67-82. See Omer.

HIM'NI
One of Mosiah's four sons, probably the youngest. He accompanied his brothers, Ammon, Aaron and Omner to the land of Nephi to preach to the Lamanites (91 B. C.). After his return from this mission we read that Alma took his three brothers to assist him in his mission to the Zoramites (75 B. C.) but that H. he left in the church in Zarahemla. It is very reasonable that he was born in Zarahemla and died there. Mos. xi:200; xii:21; 16:78-84. (See Ammon.)

HO'REB
The Bible H. Mentioned in 3 Ne. xi:23-27 in a quotation Jesus makes from Mal. iv.