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Calno. thrice by name in the Book of Mormon; each time in connection with his plottings and convenants with Satan.  CALNO. A place in Palestine, of which little is known. It is mentioned in Nephi's extracts from the prophecies of Isaiah (II Nephi, 20:9.)   CAMENIHAH. A Nephite general who was slain at the battle of Cumorah (A. C. 385). The army corps of ten thousand men, which he commanded, was entirely destroyed in this battle.   CARCHEMISH. A town near the Euphrates River. It is mentioned in connection with Calno in an extract from the prophecies of Isaiah (II Nephi, 20:9).   CEZORAM. In the year B. C. 30 Nephi, the servant of the Lord, owing to the rapid increase of iniquity, among the people, resigned the Chief Judgeship in the Nephite Republic, and a man named Cezoram was chosen to fill his place. We infer from the context that Cezoram was the tool of, or a leader among the Gadianton robber bands, and that it was through the widespread corruption of the Nephites, who were rapidly ripening for destruction, that his election was secured. He continued in office, until the year B. C. 26, when he was murdered by an unknown hand as he sat upon the judgment seat. One of his sons succeeded him, but his reign was short, for he also was assassinated, even in the same year as was his father.

When Cezoram was elected chief officer of the Nephite Commonwealth the people were in a pitiable condition. Through their apostasy from God, and disregard of the national law, they had been trampled under foot of the Lamanites, and half their lands, including their great and grand capital Zarahemla, was in the hands of these ruthless foes. But during his judgeship, (though in no way attributable to him, so far as we can gather from the record,) a great change came over the spirit of the Lamanites, and the greater <section end="Cezoram" />