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Zoram. should take in their endeavor to rescue the prisoners captured by the invaders. Alma inquired of the Lord and received an answer that the Lamanites would cross the Sidon in the south wilderness, beyond the borders of Manti. Alma then told Zoram: “There shall ye meet them, on the east of the river Sidon, and there will the Lord deliver unto thee thy brethren who have been taken captive by the Lamanites." Following these instructions, Zoram and his sons led the Nephite armies across the Sidon and marched into the south wilderness on the east side of the river. There, they came upon the enemy, scattered them and drove them further into the wilderness. They also rescued all the Nephite prisoners and restored them to their own lands. We read nothing more of Zoram after this campaign.  ZORAM. A Nephite apostate of the time of the Republic, He was the founder of the sect of the Zoramites, and established them in the land of Antionum. Of his birth, death or personal history we are told nothing. He was alive at the time that Alma and his co-laborers visited and endeavored to reclaim his deluded followers. (B. C. 75.)   ZORAMITES. A family of the Nephites. They were the descendants of Zoram, the servant of Laban, and received their blessings with and were joined to the posterity of Nephi.   ZORAMITES. An apostate sect of the Nephites, who took their name from one Zoram, their leader. They occupied the land of Antionum, where they flourished, B. C. 75.

In the various apostasies, partial or total, that from time to time disgraced the Nephites, there is one characteristic that seems universal to them, however much they differed on minor points. It was the denial of the coming of the Savior in the flesh, and of the necessity of His atonement for the sins of the world. This was the evil one's strong point in his efforts to mislead the 