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Saul. her children into trouble and danger by his dreams and revelations, and consequently was prone to murmur when any difficulty arose. Four of her sons were grown to manhood when she left Jerusalem (B. C. 600), the other two were born during the little company's eight years' journey in the wilderness. When Sariah's daughters were born is very uncertain, they are not spoken of at the time their parents left Jerusalem, nor is their birth afterwards mentioned. We are told nine or ten years after the company's departure from the Holy City, when it was on the ocean, that Lehi and Sariah were well stricken with years, so we think it quite possible that Lehi's daughters were born at Jerusalem. This is made more probable when we remember that Nephi, the youngest of the four sons, would probably be about twenty years old when his younger brothers were born. It seems reasonable, when we consider the age of Sariah, that it was during this lapse of twenty years, and not later, that his sisters came into the world.

Of Sariah's birth and death we have no record, nor to what tribe of Israel she belonged. She lived to reach the promised land, and, being then aged and worn out by the difficulties and privations of the journey through the Arabian wilderness, very probably passed into her grave before her husband.  SAUL. The name of this king only appears in the Book of Mormon in a quotation from the writings of Isaiah (II Nephi, 20:29), and in connection with the town of Gibeah, the residence of Saul, to distinguish that place from other towns in Palestine of the same name.   SEANTUM. A Nephite of importance, who belonged to the Gadianton bands. His brother, Seezoram, also a Gadianton, was Chief Judge, and Seantum, in his conscienceless ambition, with his own hand slew his brother, in order that he might attain to this dignity (B. C. 23). His crime was exposed by Nephi, through the inspiration of the 