Ether 8:1-5

Brant Gardner

The pattern of instability occurs again, with the same overall story being repeated. Omer has a son, Jared, who rebels against him, and succeeds in obtaining half of the kingdom, and then uses that power base to wage war against his father. Jared is successful, but Jared is never named in the Ether, Chapter 1, genealogy. While he was a son, and became king, he was not a king by normal accession, and apparently that was the only kind of accession recognized in the official king list.

As with Kib, Omer is in captivity, but still able to have children. The pattern repeats, and the displaced children, Esrom and Coriantumr, rebel.

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