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Shazer. against his neighbor, and mobs, instead of disciplined armies, carried bloodshed and devastation far and wide, throughout the land. Bands of brigands and robbers committed all manner of outrages, and the country was a scene of anarchy and horror from one end to the other. After a time, Coriantumr, being exceedingly angry, gathered his forces and met Shared in the valley of Gilgal. The fight, which lasted three days, was a desperate and stubborn one. Shared was beaten and retreated as far as the plains of Heshlon, where he again withstood Coriantumr, and this time was victorious, driving his foes back to their former battle ground—the valley of Gilgal. Here another fierce battle was fought, in which Shared was slain and his troops defeated. In after years, Gilead, a brother of Shared's, took his place and continued the bitter conflict with Coriantumr.  SHAZER. A place in the Arabian desert, where Lehi and his colony rested white the hunters of the party procured a supply of food (B.C. 600).   SHEARJASHUB. The son of Isaiah, the prophet, mentioned only in a quotation from his writings. (II Nephi, 17:3.)   SHELEM. A mountain to which the Jaredites gave this name because of its exceeding height, situated not far from the great ocean which they were about to cross. It was upon this mountain that the Savior touched with His finger the sixteen stones which were to give light in the barges built to carry them to the promised land; and here He showed Himself to the brother of Jared and revealed to him the great truths regarding His coming to the earth in the flesh. (Ether, ch. 3, 4.)   SHEM. A Nephite general, who commanded a corps of ten thousand men in the last great struggle between the Nephites and the Lamariites. He, with all his command, was slain in the final series of battles in the land Cumorah, when the Nephite nation was annihilated. (A. C. 385.) <section end="Shem" />