A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Jaredites

by George Reynolds

JAREDITES, THE. The descendants of Jared and his associates, who were led by the power of God from the Tower of Babel to this continent. Here they became one of the mightiest of nations, and flourished in a manner unsurpassed in the history of the post-deluvian races, until they fell into decay through corruption and iniquity and were ultimately destroyed in a desolating internecine war, at the end of which but one man, Coriantumr, remained as the representative of this once mighty people. The destruction of the Jaredites took place, as nearly as can be gleaned from the record, about the same time as the Nephites reached this land, (say B. C. 590.)