“Save It Were Jared and His Family”

W. Cleon Skousen

We notice that Omer fled north until he came to the hill Shim where Ammaron had hidden all of the Nephite records. However, when Mormon saw that the Nephites were going to be overthrown, he removed all of the Nephite records to a safer place, which we assume to have been the Hill Cumorah or the place where the Nephites were destroyed. Moroni makes it clear that when Omer reached the hill Shim he passed by it and continued north to the great last battlefield between the Nephites and Lamanites. Then he proceeded eastward to the seashore which Omer designated as the land of Ablom. So, as a result of the Lord's warning, King Omer escaped being murdered, but the kingdom fell into the hands of his wicked son Jared, whose daughter had concocted the secret combination after the pattern of ancient times.

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