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Ammah. they are no more referred to by the Nephite historians. In fulfilment of the word of the Lord to Nephi, that those who fought against him and his seed should have a mark put upon them, they marked themselves with red on their foreheads as did the Lamanites, but they did not shave their heads as did that race. Of course they did not realize they were fulfiling prophecy when they thus acted or they would not have done so, as it was not their intention to fulfil the words of those from whom they had seceded.  AMMAH. A Christian Nephite elder who accompanied the four sons of Mosiah (B. C. 91) in their mission to the Lamanites, We first read of him preaching to the inhabitants of the village of Ani-Anti, and when rejected by them he, with Aaron and others, went over to the land of Middoni, where he was cast into prison, and with his fellow-laborers suffered all the indignities and hardships there inflicted upon those devoted servants of God. After many days' imprisonment they were delivered through the instrumentality of Ammon and king Lamoni. When the various missionaries recommenced their labors, the regions in which certain ones labored are stated, but no further mention is made of Ammah or his ministrations; yet there is no doubt but that he continued his faithful labors unto the end of this lengthy and most important mission.   AMMARON, was the son of Amos the elder, a descendant of Alma and Nephi, He received the sacred records from his brother Amos, the younger (A. C. 306). Owing to the increasing depravity and vileness of the Nephites, he was constrained by the Holy Ghost to hide up all the sacred things which had been handed down from generation to generation (A. C. 321). The place where he hid them is said to have been in the land Antum, in a hill “which shall be called Shim.” After he had hidden them up, he informed Mormon, then a child 