Limhi’S Men Search for Zarahemla

Event 62

Reference: Mosiah 21:22-27

And it came to pass that there was no more disturbancebetween the Lamanites and the people of Limhi, even untilthe time that Ammon and his brethren came into the land. 23And the king having been without the gates of the city withhis guard, discovered Ammon and his brethren; andsupposing them to be priests of Noah therefore he causedthat they should be taken, and bound, and cast into prison.And had they been the priests of Noah he would havecaused that they should be put to death. 24 But when hefound that they were not, but that they were his brethren,and had come from the land of Zarahemla, he was filledwith exceedingly great joy.MormonSee Isa. 53:1-12Near city of Nephi121 B.C.25 Now king Limhi had sent, previous to the coming ofAmmon, a small number of men to search for the land ofZarahemla; but they could not find it, and they were lost inthe wilderness.Wilderness26 Nevertheless, they did find a land which had beenpeopled; yea, a land which was covered with dry bones;yea, a land which had been peopled and which had beendestroyed;Land ofDesolationand they, having supposed it to be the land of Zarahemla,returned to the land of Nephi, having arrived in the bordersof the land not many days before the coming of Ammon. 27And they brought a record with them, even a record of thepeople whose bones they had found; and it was engraven onplates of ore.Land of Nephi