“When Mosiah I led the more righteous portion of the Nephites northward from the land of Lehi-Nephi (about 200 B.C.) he found [the people of Zarahemla]. … It was discovered that the people of Zarahemla were the descendants of a colony which had been led by the Lord out of Jerusalem in the year when that city was destroyed by the king of Babylon (587 B.C.). After wandering in the wilderness they were brought across the ocean and landed in the Americas. In the years that followed, they migrated southward to the place where they were found by Mosiah” (McConkie and Millet, Doctrinal Commentary, 2:287–88).