Coriantume And His Men Pitched Their Tents Near Were Shiz And His Men Did Pitch Their Tents

Alan C. Miner

Coriantumr withdrew to the waters of Ripliancum and "pitched their tents" (Ether 15:8). "On the morrow they did come to battle" and despite the fact that Coriantumr was wounded again, the armies of Coriantumr beat the armies of Shiz and Shiz "did flee southward, and did pitch their tents in a place which was called Ogath. And it came to pass that the army of Coriantumr did pitch their tents by the hill Ramah" (Ether 15:11).

According to David Palmer, if the two quotations which note the pitching of tents first at the waters of Ripliancum (Ether 15:8) and then at the hill Ramah (Ether 15:10) are chronological in nature, then they might delineate a day's happenings before each pitching of tents. Thus the waters of Ripliancum might have been about a day's journey from the hill Comnor, and the hill Ramah/Cumorah might have been about a day's journey from the waters of Ripliancum. [David Palmer, In Search of Cumorah, p. 48]

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