In contrast, Paanchi rejected the voice of the people and, with his followers, organizes a rebellion. Such rebellions have occurred several times in the last fifty years of Nephite history with one of three results: defection to the Lamanites, attempted emigration to the north, or armed internal rebellion. Paanchi and his followers choose the third option.
Language: Hugh Nibley has suggested that some of the names in the Book of Mormon have Egyptian roots:
The name of Pahoran reflects the eastern Pahura, which is “reformed” Egyptian, i.e., a true Egyptian title, but altered in such a way as to adapt it to the Hebrew-Canaanite speech. Pahura (also written Puhuru) was in Amarna times an Egyptian governor (rabu) of Syria. The same man, or another man with the same name was placed by Pharaoh as governor of the Ube district, with his head-quarters at Kumedi (cf. the element—Kumen in the Book of Mormon place names).
Paanchi is simply the well-known Egyptian Paiankh (also rendered Pianchi, Paankh, etc.). The first important man to bear the name was none other than the son of the above-mentioned Kherihor. He did not succeed his father on the throne, being content with the all-powerful office of chief high priest of Amon, but his son, Panezem, did become king. In the middle of the eighth century, another Pianhki, a king of Nubia, conquered virtually all of Egypt, and claimed for himself the office of high priest of Amon at Thebes as well as the title of Pharaoh.