The brother of Jared’s hesitation to have a king may have influenced most of Jared’s sons to refuse the position of becoming king. While this event has similarities to the episode of the sons of Mosiah also declining to become king, there is no implication in this record that the reason was that they had a higher purpose in mind. In this case, we are simply left to guess why they declined.
Orihah accepts. Even though he was not the firstborn, he accepted the position. It was not a question of righteousness, however, for Orihah “did walk humbly before the Lord, and did remember how great things the Lord had done for his father.” The Jaredite nation, therefore, begins with a righteous king.
This is not the end of a chapter in the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon.