M

MAD-ME'NAH
The Bible M., a village in Palestine. It only occurs in 2 Ne. ix:105-115 in a quotation from Isa. x.

MA'HAH
One of the four sons of Jared, probably the third. Ether iii:16.

MA'HER-SHAL'AL-HASH'BAZ
The Bible M.; men-tioned in 2 Nephi ix:39-42 in a quotation from Isaiah viii.

MAL'A-CHI
The Bible M. Jesus quotes the third and fourth chapters of M. in the land of Bountiful 34 A. D. 3 Nephi ix.

MA-NAS'SEH
The Bible M., son of Joseph and brother of Ephraim. Mentioned in 2 Nephi ix:81 in a quotation from Isaiah ix. He was the progenitor of Lehi. Alma viii:3.

MAN'TI
One of the spies sent by Alma II to watch the movements of the Amlicites after their terrible defeat by the Nephites 86 B. C. Alma i:78.

MAN'TI, Land of
A state or division of the land of Zarahemla in the south, toward the land of Nephi, evidently at the head of the river Sidon on the west side of the river. Alma xii:l; xx:25-46; xxvi.

MAN'TI, City of
In the land of M. It fell into the hands of the Lamanites and was retaken by Gid and Teomner 62 B. C. Alma xxvi.

MAN'TI, Hill of
Place where Nehor was executed 91 B.C. in the land of Zarahemla. Definite location not given. Alma i:22.

MA'RY
Mother of Jesus. Mentioned by name in Mos. i:102 and Alma v:19.

MA-THO'NI
One of the twelve disciples whom Jesus chose in the land Bountiful. 3 Nephi ix:4.

MA-THO-NI'HAH
One of the twelve disciples on the western hemisphere, brother to the preceding. 3 Nephi ix:4.

MEDES
The Bible M. Found in 2 Nephi x:17 in a reproduction of Isaiah xiii.

MEL-CHIS'E-DEK
The Bible M. Referred to in Alma x:7-15 wherein we have additional light in regard to M., which has been greatly confirmed by the tablets discovered by Arabs in Upper Egypt in 1888. See page 40 of "Marvelous Discoveries in Bible Lands."

ME'LEK, Land of
One of the several divisions of the land of Zarahemla. It was "on the west of the river Sidon, by the borders of the wilderness." Alma vi:4-8.

MES-SI'AH
The Christ. The appellation M. occurs a number of times in the B. of M. See Jesus Christ; also see M. in the new edition B. of M.

Metals
The B. of M. mentions gold, silver, copper, brass. lead, iron, steel, ziff. 2 Ne. iv:21; Mos. vii:6.

MICH'MASH
The Bible M. Occurs in 2 Nephi ix:109 in a quotation from Isaiah x.

MID-DO'NI, Land of
. One of the divisions of the land of Nephi. It was there where Aaron, Muloki and Ammah were imprisoned by King Antiomno on their mission thither 91-77 B. C. The people of M. were converted by Mosiah's sons within said period. Alma xii-xiv.

MID'I-AN
(1) The Bible M. Occurs in 2 Ne. ix:107 in a quotation of Isaiah x.

MIDIAN
(2) A state or division of the land of Nephi. Alma xiv:25.

MIG'RON
The Bible M. Occurs in 2 Nephi ix:109 in a quotation from Isaiah x.

MIN'ON, Land of
Probably a division or constituency of the land of Zarahemla though in Alma i:80 where Zarahemla is used in its local sense, M. is spoken of as being "above the land of Zarahemla."

MO'AB
The Bible M. Found in 2 Nephi ix:129 in a quotation from Isaiah xi.

MO'CUM, City of
Destroyed in the Crucifixion catastrophe 34 A. D. Waters came up in its stead. Not located; probably in C. A. 3 Nephi iv:32.

Money
Read Al. viii:52-63 which is a lesson on Nephi currency. No less than twelve pieces of gold and silver are named by Alma; in their system of exchange. He gives their vane in relation to each other. He also indicates their buying power by disclosing how much barley or other grain may be purchased with a given or specific piece of coin. Their systems of reckoning and measurement were changed throughout the different generations.

MO-RI-AN'CU-MER
Name given by the Jaredites to the place where they dwelt for four years on the seashore previous to their embarkation for America. Ether i:37.

MO-RI-ON'TON
Jaredite king-eventually-and father of Kim, another king. I would estimate his reign at about 1200 B. C. King M. furnishes us an instance of a ruler who served the people and the devil and lived "to an exceeding great age." He was a polygamist, notwithstanding he "did do justice unto the people" who "became exceeding rich under his reign." He won his throne by bloodshed, then defiled it with "his many whoredoms." Eth. iv:52-57.

MO-RI-AN'TON
Leader of the people of M. about 67 B. C. The lands of Lehi and M. joined. Both peoples were Nephites; but a boundary dispute arose, initiated by the people of M., the latter claiming "part of the land of Lehi." The flame was fanned by M. resulting in a clash at arms and the death of M. at the hands of Teancum who led Moroni's army. Al. xxii:26-39.

MO-RI-AN'TON, city of
Evidently in the land of M. It is referred to after the above episode, a year or so later, when Amalickiah took it with many other cities" on the east borders by the sea-shore." Al. xiii:32. Some three years later we find it remaining in Lamanite hands, fortified into "an exceeding stronghold." Al. xxvi:62.

MO'RI-AN'TON, Land of
A Nephite possession not far from, probably the east-side sea, possibly extending to the coast, if that is the meaning of "on the borders by the sea-shore." It joined the land of Lehi; was probably settled 71 B. C. For its history, see city of M. Al. xxii:26 ff.

MO'RI-AN'TON, People of
Those who were led by the character M., and who also dwelt in the land and city of M. (q. v.)

MO-RI-AN'TUM, Land of
A Nephite possession, mentioned only in Mormon's second epistle to Moroni, Moroni ix:l0. He says the Nephites had become so degenerate in M. that they would violate the Lamanite daughters and afterward torture them to death and feed on their flesh. Location not given.

MOR'MON
(1) Apparently a Lamanite king in the land of Nephi. Mos. ix:32.

MOR'MON
(2) Father of M., the succeeding, and grandfather of Moroni. He was a descendant of Nephi. He carried his son M. into Zarahemla about A. D. 321; which is the sum of history re-corder of him. Morm. i:l-10.

MOR'MON
(3) The compiler and writer of the most of the B. of M. He was a Nephite prophet and general; was a descendant of Nephi and son of M., the preceding. He was the father of Moroni, the last Nephite prophet. Mormon was born about A. D. 310. About A. D. 320, when M. was ten years of age, the prophet Ammoron (q. v.) told him that he had hid up the records in the hill Shim, and that M. was to take therefrom the plates of Nephi (leaving the others where they were) when he was about twenty-four years of age, and engrave thereon his observations concerning that people. In about A. D. 321 M. was carried into the land of Zarahemla by his father; in which year war broke out again between the Nephites and Lamanites. When he was in his sixteenth year he was appointed by the Nephites to lead their armies. By A. D. 344 (when M. was about 34 years of age) the Nephites were driven northward near to where Ammoron had deposited the records. While in this locality M. says, 'I had gone according to the word of Ammoron, and taken the plates of Nephi, and did make a record according to the words of Ammoron. Hostilities were renewed in A. D. 345. In A. D. 349 a treaty was made, the Lamanites receiving the land southward and the Nephites the land northward. After ten years peace, war was renewed. In A. D. 361 M. resigned the military leadership because of the wickedness of his people. In A. D. 374-379 M. took up all the records from the hill Shim and resumed command of the army. Henceforth the Nephites were gradually driven north until they reached Cumorah where under M., now aged, they have their final struggle with the Lamanites in A. D. 384. Mormon hides in Cumorah the plates he took from Shim save a few which he entrusts to Moroni. All the Nephites were destroyed save twenty-four including M. and Mo-roni; and Moroni (sixteen years later, A. D. 400) says that his father was killed also. (See M., Book of.) Morm. i-iv:15; W. of Morm. 1-3. (See M. in B. Of M. concordance.)

MOR'MON, Book of
(1) Name applied to the record of the American ancients by virtue of its having been compiled for the most part by the prophet Mormon. It embraces fifteen books and covers a span of about 2600 years, from the tower of Babel 2200 B.C. to A. D. 420. The fifteen books, viz., I Ne., 2 Ne., Jacob, Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon, Mosiah, Alma, Helaman, Nephi, Disciple Nephi, Mormon, Ether, Moroni, is the compilation from more than that many authors. See Plates The writing of the records from which the B. of M. is abridged covered about 1000 years; from Ether (600 B. C. or later) to Moroni, A. D. 420.) The Nephite records descended through the hands of the following men in the order of their names: Lehi, Nephi, Jacob, Enos, Jarom, Omni, Amaron, Chemnish, Abinadom, Amaleki, Benjamin Mosiah II, Alma II, Helaman II, Shiblon, Helaman III, Nephi II, Nephi III, Nephi IV, Amos I, Amos II, Ammoron, Mormon, Moroni-24 men. This is the direct stream, so to speak, without reference to its tributaries (as Ether the Jaredite, and Zeniff the Nephite.) The Book of Mormon was all, or nearly all, written by M. as an abridgement from existing records, save that which was added by Moroni after M's time, viz., the latter part of Mormon, Ether and Moroni; Ether being an abridgement by Moroni from the twenty-four plates of the prophet Ether. The B. of M., therefore, as it is has practically two authors. It is mostly historical in its nature with doctrinal matter interwoven. See table, Nephite Historians, in the back.

MOR'MON, Book of
(2) The thirteenth book of the Book of Mormon. It has but four chapters, the first three of which were written by the prophet M., the fourth and last by Moroni, his son. It embraces a period of eighty years-A. D. 320-400. It is between the book of 4 Nephi and Ether. It gives an account of the renewal of war between the Nephites and Lamanites, after about 326 years of the Christian era had passed away, and gives a brief account of events down to the destruction of the Nephite nation A. D. 384 at the battle of Cumorah, and to A. D. 400.

MOR'MON, Words of
The seventh book of the B. of M., written by the prophet and compiler M. It is found between the books of Omni and Mosiah; has but one chapter. It was written after the battle of Cumorah, v. 1-3. Chronologically-in respect to the time of writing rather than the events in chief which it relates-it would come between the books, Mormon and Moroni; or more particularly, I should suggest, between chaps. 2 and 3 of Mormon. For, while in W. of Morm. v.1 M. says, 'I am about to deliver up the record into the hands of Moroni," in Morm. iii:7-15 he affirms that he had already done so; and one would gather the conclusion that chap. 4, therefore, of Mormon was added by him after the record had been resigned to Moroni's possession.

MOR'MON, Forest of
Near the waters of M., in the place or land of M. (q. v.). It was the refuge of Alma I and co-believers in the time of King Noah. Mos. ix:28-73.

MOR'MON, Land of
In the land of Nephi, in the region of the city or land of Lehi-Nephi. It was evidently north or northwest of the city of Lehi--Nephi, and in or at which was located the forest of M., waters of M., and place of M. (q. v. all).

MOR'MON, Place of
See land of M., ,B>waters of M., forest of M.

MOR'MON, Waters of
In the land of M.; where Alma I baptized about two hundred and four souls who retired or fled thither from Lehi-Nephi (within l60-130 B. C.)

MO'RON
A wicked Jaredite king; son of Ethem, whom he succeeded, grandfather of the prophet Ether. His life extended to the last generation of that people. After losing half of the kingdom and recovering it again, he lost it in its entirety and spent the latter part of his life in captivity, in which condition Coriantor was born. Eth. i:6; iv:105-115.

MO'RON
A land of the Jaredites, where they first set-tled. It was near the Nephite land of Desolation and was the center of Jaredite civilization and contained their capital and seat of government. This was true of it in the time of Kib. the second Jaredite king, and we find it sustained the throne of Coriantumr in the last generation of those people. Eth. iii:42-55; vi:37-51.

MO'RO-NI
(1) A great Nephite prophet, strategist and chief commander of their army. He was born in Zarahemla 98 B. C. and died in that land 55 B. C., at the age of forty-three years. He was twenty-five years of age when (in 73 B. C.) he was appointed chief captain over the armies of the Nephites. The story of him is embraced in Al. xx:17; xxx:5. His historical career covers eighteen years. His son Moronihah succeeded him as commander in chief of the armies some time before M. died.

The Nephite contemporaries of M. were: Alma II (who disappeared the same year, 73 B. C., that M. was promoted to chief commander), Helaman, Teancum, Lehi and Pahoran. The Lamanite generals who were contemporary with M. and fought against him were: Zarahemna, Amalickiah, Ammoron, respectively. The Nephite rebels or usurpers who were contemporary with M. were: Amalickiah (who became Lamanite king and general), and Pachus who led the "kingmen."

The boundary dispute between the peoples of Lehi and Morianton (67 B. C.) was settled by M., as an intestinal vexation. Under M's. command Zarahemla was defeated and the Lamanites signally repulsed (73 B. C.) on the banks of the Sidon (Al. chap. xx); Amalickiah was frustrated in his attempt to become king and was defeated in his first invasion (which he did not attend in person) of the western possession of the Nephites, 72 B. C., Al. chap. xxi; Amalickiah was defeated and slain in his second invasion of the Nephites, in their rightful east-coastal possessions, 66 B. C., Al. chap., xxiii; Ammoron was slain and the Lamanites defeated and driven out of the land, 65-61 B. C., chapters xxiv-xxix, Moroni's fortifications and defences were prepared "in a manner which never had been known among the children of Lehi," Al. xxi:149-158.

MO-RO'NI
(2) Son of the prophet Mormon and the last historical Nephite. He is the author of the last chapter (iv) of Mormon; of the abridgement of the twenty-four plates, called the Book of Ether Eth. i:2); of the Book of Moroni, the last in the Book of Mormon. He it was who did the final hiding up of plates in the hill Cumorah about A. D. 420, Moro. x:2; who visited Joseph Smith in 1823 and delivered said plates into his hands in 1827. After the records were translated they were returned to Moroni, whom we expect has charge of them at this time. Moroni was in command of ten thousand troops at the battle of Cumorah. (A. D. 384) and was one of the few survivors. Sixteen years later (A. D. 400) he says his people had been "all destroyed," and had been hunted down until they were "no more," "and I, even remain alone to write the sad tale of the destruction of my people." Furthermore: "My father hath been slain in battle, and all my kinfolks, and I have not friends, nor whither to go, and how long the Lord will suffer that I may live, I know not." Morm. iv:l-15. About twenty years later (A. D. 420) he said: "I soon go to rest in the paradise of God." Moro. x. Neither the place nor date of his birth or death are given.

MO-RO'NI, Book of
The fifteenth and last book of the B. of M. It is also last historically and chronologically. It has ten chapters and its author was Moroni, the preceding character. The most of this book is of a doctrinal nature. In it M. quotes two epistles which his father had written him before the battle of Cumorah (chaps. viii, xi). The entire book was probably written about A. D. 420, chap. i; x:l, 2.

MO-RO'NI, City of
In the land of M., on the southeast boundary of the Nephite possessions. It was "by the east sea," probably Yucatan. It was founded 71 B. C. (Al. xxii:14-25) and was sunk into the depths of the sea in the great crucifixion convulsions-A. D. 34, 3 Ne. iv:26-35. It therefore existed one hundred and four years. It was taken by the Lamanites under Amalickiah in 66 B. C., Al. xxiii:27-30) and was recaptured by the Nephites under Moroni, from whom it probably derived its name, after the slaughter of Ammoron by Tean-cum therein (60 B. C.); xxix:35-51.

MO-RO'NI, Land of
A Nephite possession on the northern or northeastern sea-board of the continent. It probably extended to the coast of the Carribean Sea and its boundary was the "line of the possessions of the Lamanites." It was in this land that the Lamanites took their last stand of resistance in their prolonged war with the Nephites. (See city of M.)

MO-RO-NI'HAH
(1) Commander in chief of the Nephite armies in the land of Zarahemla. He was the son of Moroni whom he succeeded in said office about 59 B. C. He acted in this capacity as late as 29 B. C., for thirty years, and possibly for some time longer, though his mention ceases with the last date given. He was engaged in three wars with the Lamanites. In the first (52 B. C.) he drove the invaders back with great loss. In the second invasion (50 B. C.) he captured and made prisoners of war the whole Lamanite army with the assistance of his lieutenant Lehi. In the third war 34-29 B. C.) the Lamanites drove the Nephites from their southerly occupations in the early part of the war, but in the latter part of the period given the Nephites recovered one-half of their possessions, excluding the city of Zarahemla. Contemporary with M. were: Helaman and his son Nephi who reigned as chief judges in succession; Kishkumen (who murdered Pahoran) and Gadianton who originated the band of Gadianton robbers; Coriantumr who led the Lamanites in their second invasion; Pahoran who was murdered by Kishkumen; and Lehi and Nephi, sons of Helaman. It is probable that M. died in Zarahemla where he was undoubtedly born. Al. xxix:52 to He). ii:53.

MO'RON-I'HAH
(2) A Nephite general who was slain with his ten thousand in the battle of Cumorah, 384 A. D., 2 Morm. iii:15.

MO'RON-I'HAH, City of
Destroyed in the crucifixion catastrophe, A. D. 33. Neither its location or history are given. 3 Ne. iv:30.

MO'SES
The Bible M. (See B. of M. concordance.)

MO-SI'AH 1
Nephite king and seer. He was a resident of the land of Nephi along with the Nephite nation up to about 200 B. C., when the believing ones of that people who were willing to hearken to the voice of the Lord migrated into the land Zarahemla. Here they found another nation or community of Israelites who were reigned over King Zarahemla; they had come out from Jerusalem about ten or eleven years later than Lehi's company, or about 589 B. C. The two peoples united, the kingship was relinquished to M., who became their reigning monarch. The dates of the birth and death of M. are not given, nor the circumstances. He was contemporary with Amaleki the custodian of the sacred records, who says he was born in the days of M. and had lived to see his death. We are safe in saying that M. was born in the land of Nephi and died in land of Zarahemla. He was succeeded by his son Benjamin. Om. 18-42.

MO-SI'AH II
Prophet and third king over the Nephites in the land of Zarahemla. He was one of the. three sons of King Benjamin whom he succeeded 124 B. C., three years before his father's death. He was born in Zarahemla 154 B. C., where-63 years of age-after a righteous reign of 33 years, I died in 91 B. C. He began to reign at 30 years age. He was the father of Ammon, Aaron, Omner and Himni who performed that unparalleled mission to the land of Nephi, 91-77 B. C. His reign was very eventful. Three years after it began sixteen of his men went down to the land of Nephi to find and to acquire information concerning their brethren who had gone there many years earlier under Zeniff. They returned to Zarahemla later with their brethren whom they were successful in locating, who were at the time reigned over by King Limhi and were under La-manite oppression. The people of Limhi brought the twenty-four plates of Ether which were translated by King M., who was a seer. Also in the days of M. Alma I and his company of Christians came into the land of Zarahemla by flight from their Lamanite oppressors in the land of Helam; having fled thither from their Nephite persecutors who were under King Noah the successor of Zeniff and predecessor of King Limhi.

Mosiah was the last king over the Nephites. Prior to his death he proclaimed in favor of a republican government which received the sanction of his people. This new order, the Judges, took effect after his demise with Alma II as first Chief Judge. Mosiah was custodian of the sacred records which he received from his father, King Benjamin, and committed them to Alma II. Mosiah i-xii.

MO-SI'AH, Book of
The eighth book of the B. of M., between Words of Mormon and Alma. It has thirteen chapters and covers a period of about 33 years, from the conclusion of the reign of King Benjamin and accession of his son Mosiah II to the deaths of Mosiah II and Alma I. As King M. held the records we are to understand that he was responsible for the most port, for the existence on the plates of Nephi of the accounts from which Mormon makes his abridgment, the Book of Mosiah. It gives an account of the founding of the Church of Christ in the land of Zarahemla and the declination of the monarchial government over the Nephites; two of the most important aspects of its history.

MU'LEK
One of the sons of the Bible Zedekiah, king of Judea. He was mentioned by name in Hel. ii: 129 and iii:56, 57, where we are informed that he was in the company who left Jerusalem in the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah (about 589 B. C.); and that all the sons of Zedekiah were slain except him. In 2 Kings xxv:7 we read that "they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes." It was probably preceding this slaughter that the people of Zarahemla with young prince M. among them set out from Jerusalem (Om. 26-31), which saved him the fate of his brethren. It is not probable that M. was at first leader of the colony, for his father was only thirty-two years of age at the time of the migration (2 Kings xxiv:18). Mulek is not mentioned by name in the Bible. He was, we believe, the "tender one" of Ezek. xvii:22. (See Zarahemla, People of).
MU'LEK, City of
It was captured by the Lamanites commanded by Amalickiah in 66 B. C. and retaken by the Nephites under Moroni and his officers Lehi and Teancum, 63 B. C. It became Lehi's military centre. The Lamanites possessed it again when they expelled the Nephites from the south 33 B. C. It was recaptured by Moronihah 30 B. C. It was afterward visited by the preachers Lehi and Nephi 29 B. C. Al. xxiii:31-33; xxiv:l-52; Hel. ii:36-78.

MU'LEK, Land of
Nephite appellation of the land north. Hel. ii:128-135 reads: "Now the land south was called Lehi, and the land north was called Mulek, which was after the sons of Zedekiah; for the Lord did bring Mulek into the land north and Lehi into the land south."

MU'LOK
The spelling in Mos: xi:78 of the name of the son of Zedekiah who came to America, elsewhere spelled Mulek (q. v.).

MU'LO-KI
One of the missionaries that accompanied the sons of Mosiah on their mission to the Lamanites in the land Nephi from Zarahemla, 91 B. C. He preached at the village of' Ani-Anti on that mission; was afterward imprisoned and released with Aaron and Ammah in the land of Middoni. His personal history closes with the separation of himself and co-laborers following said release. Mos: xii:l-21; Al. xii:181, 182; xiii:13-21.