Jarom

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Jarom is a brief book in the Book of Mormon that continues the record of the Nephite people and their spiritual and military struggles.

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Label Occurrences
Jarom canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Book of Mormon book
religious text
alsoMentions Lamanites
authorAccordingToText Jarom son of Enos
canonicalOrder one of the Small Plates of Nephi books
centralPeople Nephites
chapterCount 1
contains exhortations to righteousness
prophecies about the coming of Christ
describes wars between Nephites and Lamanites
emphasizes keeping the commandments of God
prophecy
revelation
followedBy Omni
follows Enos
genre didactic scripture
religious narrative
hasPositionInSeries fourth book in the Book of Mormon
hasShortLength yes
hasTheme continuation of sacred records
covenant faithfulness
divine protection in war
linkedToFigure Enos
Lehi (as ancestor in the narrative)
linked to: Lehi

Nephi (through the small plates lineage)
linked to: Nephi
mentions prophets among the Nephites
teachers among the Nephites
namedAfter Jarom son of Enos
narrativeFocus military struggles of the Nephites
spiritual struggles of the Nephites
partOf Book of Mormon
precededBy Enos
recordType abridged record on the small plates of Nephi
religiousTradition Latter-day Saint movement
reports that the Nephites had many revelations
that the Nephites were often at war with the Lamanites
that the Nephites were protected because of their faithfulness
scripturalCanonStatus canonical in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
canonical in the Community of Christ
scripturalCategory Latter-day Saint scripture
scriptureCollection Book of Mormon in the Community of Christ canon
linked to: Book of Mormon

standard works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
timeSpanNarrated approximately 238–361 years after the departure of Lehi from Jerusalem (according to internal chronology)
verseCount 15
writtenInLanguage Reformed Egyptian (according to the Book of Mormon narrative)

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lamanites mentionedInBook Jarom
Small Plates of Nephi hasContributor Jarom
subject linked to: small plates of Nephi
Omni follows Jarom
Omni precededBy Jarom