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Jacob. Arrived at the chosen land, Jacob and his people laid the foundation of a magnificent city, to which was given the name of Jacobugath (A. C. 31). His subjects were mostly rich, and their material progress was remarkable, but they exceeded in vice, in depravity, in corruption, all the inhabitants of the continent. Their history is a short one. In the terrible convulsions of nature that marked the sacrifice of the Lord of Life and Glory, Jacobugath, with many other Nephite cities, was entirely consumed by fire. (A. C. 34.) Its population of traitors and murderers was destroyed, that the blood of the prophets and the saints should not come up unto God any more against them. If Jacob was yet alive he undoubtedly perished at this time with his people.  JACOB. The Bible patriarch of that name. Individually he is seldom referred to in the Book of Mormon, but the Israelites are frequently spoken of as the seed or the house of Jacob, and the Lord as the God of Jacob; while the promise is made on several occasions to the righteous that they shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.   JACOB, CITY OF. One of the cities sunk in the depths of the earth at the time of the great convulsions that attended the crucifixion of the Savior. Its iniquitous citizens had persecuted and slain the saints of God, and the Lord destroyed them from before His face, that the blood of the righteous might not come up unto Him any more against them.   JACOBITES. One of the divisions of the Nephite people. They were the descendants of Jacob, the son of Lehi.   JACOBUGATH. The city of the followers of king Jacob. Its history was short, but its people were pre-eminent in iniquity. When the Nephite republic was broken in fragments (A. C. 30), and the people divided into tribes, the royalists, who <section end="Jacobugath" />