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Noah. his people, a great division grew up among that monarch's subjects. They were heartily tired of his tyranny and his debaucheries. One of those most dissatisfied was an officer of the king's army named Gideon. In the disturbances that now arose between Noah and his people, Gideon sought to slay the king. But Noah fled to the tower near the temple. From its top he beheld an advancing host of the Lamanites. Pleading with Gideon for his life, he ordered his people to flee. They did so, but being encumbered with their families, the Lamanites soon overtook them and began to slay them. The craven-hearted king then commanded his men to leave the women and children to the mercy of their savage foes and flee into the wilderness. Some obeyed, while others refused. Those who followed Noah soon grew ashamed of their cowardice and desired to return to meet the Lamanites to avenge the slaughter of their wives and little ones, or perish as they had done. King Noah objected, and his unworthy priests sustained him. At this, the soldiers grew exceedingly angry; all love for him as a man was crushed out, all respect for him as a monarch was lost; they took him and burned him to death, as he had done Abinadi, and would have sacrificed the priests in the same way had they not fled from them. They then turned their faces towards Lehi-Nephi and were overjoyed to meet some messengers who bore the welcome tidings that the Lamanites had spared the lives of those who had been left behind, though they held them in bondage. Noah was succeeded by his son Limhi.  NOAH. An early Jaredite leader, the son of Corihor and the father of Cohor. Noah rebelled against king Shule, and against his own father, drawing from their allegiance all his brothers and many of the people. When sufficiently strong, he attacked and defeated Shule, and took possession and reigned over the land of the Jaredites' first 