The “hill Shim” played an important part in Nephite religious history. It was here that Ammaron, “constrained by the Holy Ghost,” hid up the sacred Nephite records for safekeeping during a time of “exceeding wickedness” (4 Nephi 1:45–49). Later, Ammaron “instructed young Mormon that when he turned twenty-four he should take from these records the plates of Nephi and continue the record (Morm. 1:2–4)” (Largey, Book of Mormon Reference Companion, 721–22). Mormon fulfilled this wish (see Mormon 2:17–18), but eventually removed all the records as the Lamanites drew near.