Aharoni, Yohanan. Mulek; Is it a Land or False god? 11:2-4]); he may even have been unborn, although he probably avoided captivity some other way. The Bible records that all the sons of Zedekiah were slain ( 2 Kgs. Is Mulek, a man identified in the Book of Mormon as the only surviving son of Zedekiah, king of Judah, mentioned in the Bible? The Lord has not fully revealed his purpose in leading this remnant, including a surviving heir to David’s throne, out of Jerusalem to be reunited with another chosen remnant, the Nephites. Shanks explains that he used quotes around the term "son" because it was not clear whether the term mean a biological son or son in some other sense, such as a royal official unrelated to the king or any male descendent of the royal family. Last king of Judah. “Mulek,” H. Curtis Wright, Encyclopedia of Mormonism This encyclopedia entry provides information on Mulek (Mosiah 25) and the descending Mulekites as found in the Book of Mormon. Mulek This son of the Jewish King Zedekiah escaped from Jerusalem at the time the Babylonian king slew Mulek’s brothers, then put out the eyes of Mulek’s father and carried him captive into Babylon (2 Kings 25:1-7). Helaman 6:10; “Now the land south was called Lehi and the land north was called Mulek, which was after the son of Zedekiah; for the Lord did bring Mulek into the land north, and Lehi into the land south. Slaughter of the Sons of Zedekiah by Gustave Dore. Based on Amaleki's account in Omni, it would appear that Mulek and his party left Jerusalem at the time king Zedekiah was captured trying to escape (Omni 1:15). 1 Nephi 1:4), makes his first appearance in Mosiah 25. I have to look again at this book that I read years ago that lays out the claim that Jeremiah went to Spain and then Ireland with King Zedekiah's daughters. Turning to the Book of Mormon, Mulek (or Muloch2), the son of Zedekiah (Helaman 6:10; 8:21; cf. The Book of Mormon teaches that when Jerusalem was destroyed by Babylon during the reign of Zedekiah all of the sons of Zedekiah were killed, except one son named Mulek. Mormon Dilemma 916 Zedekiah’s Son Mulek. Mulek, son of Zedekiah, was the ancestor of the Mulekites in the Book o f Mormon. Zedekiah was the king of Judah at the time Lehi and his colony fled from Jerusalem (1 Nephi 1:4). Book of Mornon ~ Zedekiah's son, Mulek, escaped death & travelled across one of the oceans to the Americas, where he founded a nation that later merged with the Nephites. And Mormon referred to the Mulekites by the name of Mulek, the son of King Zedekiah who came out of Jerusalem with them. Turning to the Book of Mormon, Mulek (or Muloch), the son of king Zedekiah (Helaman 6:10; 8:21; cf. ). It may be possible that Mulek's description as a "son" of King Zedekiah in Helaman 6:10 and 8:21, as well as the apparent reference to Malkiyahu (Mulek) king of the son in Jeremiah 38:6, might not refer to a direct biological relationship. This chiasm, therefore, actually works better when you translate it back into Hebrew, which I think is an interesting point. A small stamp seal bearing the inscription belonging to Malkiyahu, son of the king, arguably belonged to Mulek, son of Zedekiah, who accompanied one of the Israelite groups that settled in the New World. It is therefore possible that the Mulek of the Book of Mormon is "Malchiah, son of the king" mentioned in Jeremiah 38:6. He came to America, and his descendants were among the people who founded the city of Zarahemla. The Mulekites lived thenceforth among the Nephites, enjoying separate-but-equal status and ultimately outnumbering the descendants of Nephi (Mosiah 25:1-4, 13). Zedekiah was the king of Judah at the time Lehi and his colony fled from Jerusalem (1 Nephi 1:4). Now the land south was called Lehi, and the land north was called Mulek, which was after the son of Zedekiah; for the Lord did bring Mulek into the land north, and Lehi into the land south. Mulek and his nation. Helaman 6:10 implies that "Mulek" was the name of "the son of Zedekiah." Mulek, a Book of Mormon character, son of Zedekiah, escaped the sack of Jerusalem (587 B.C.) _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-1368362-1']); Zarahemla was a descendant of Mulek, Mosiah 25:2. According to the Book of Mormon, a son of King Zedekiah named Mulek escaped the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon and fled with others to the New World. According to the Book of Mormon, Zedekiah's son Mulek escaped death and traveled across the ocean to the Americas, where he founded a nation, the Mulekites, which later merged with another Israelite splinter group, the Nephites, to form one nation who retained the name Nephites. He was the last king of Judah. Based on Amaleki's account in Omni, it would appear that Mulek and his party left Jerusalem at the time king Zedekiah was captured trying to escape (Omni 1:15). Bible students have traditionally assumed that all of Zedekiah's sons were killed, so the Book of Mormon account goes … The Book of Mormon states that… Mulek, the son of Zedekiah, is mentioned several times in the Book of Mormon (see Mosiah 25:2; Helaman 6:10; 8:21) but not in the Bible—at least not in a way that people have recognized, until just recently. 41. The reason we’re doing this is because of what the Book of Mormon says. 142-144), a section based on research primarily by Robert F. Smith, February 1984, and supplemented by Benjamin Urrutia. For one thing, the title "son of the king" was used throughout the ancient Near East to refer to actual sons of kings who served as high officers of imperial administration [Rainey, 1975, pp. – Mormon Quotes. 8:21 ). Later a region was named for Zarahemla, a descendant of Mulek (Mosiah 25:2). But Hammelech is a translator's error, since ben-hammelek means "son of the king" and is not a proper name - a fact confirmed by the Septuagint (LXX Jer. At some point in this final period of the Babylonian siege, Mulek, the sixth son of Zedekiah, was spirited out of Jerusalem, evidently by those who were assigned to watch over him in the Palace. It is also known that names ending in -yahu (in English, -iah ) were common during the late First Temple period, that Zedekiah indeed had a son named Malkiyahu (Aharoni, p. 22), and that the familial forms of yahu -names were shorter than their "full" forms. and went with others to a place in the Western Hemisphere that they called the land of Mulek (Hel. Ugarit-Forschungen 7 (1975):427-32. And such a boy could have been a true biological son of the king, or a "son" in another sense. [2] [3] Along with "as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord," Mulek escaped into the wilderness and traveled "across the great waters" to the Americas, founding a new nation. I wondered how he managed to escape Jerusalem and travel to America. Mulek might have been away when the city fell; perhaps he eluded his captors at Jericho; the women could have hidden him (as Jehoshiba hid her nephew Joash of the royal line earlier [see 2 Kgs. The Nephites discovered in Mulek's descendants an additional witness concerning the destruction of Jerusalem. Yea, and do ye not behold that the seed of Zedekiah are with us, and they were driven out of the land of Jerusalem? Helaman 6:10 implies that 'Mulek' was the name of 'the son of Zedekiah.' Helaman 6:10. The Nephite record informs us that one of the sons of Zedekiah survived. Jeremiah 38:6 speaks of a "dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech . Mulek, the son of Zedekiah, is mentioned several times in the Book of Mormon (see Mosiah 25:2; Helaman 6:10; 8:21) but not in the Bible—at least not in a way that people have recognized, until just recently. Biblical scholarship now bears out this Book of Mormon claim: King Zedekiah had a son named M ule k. . He was the last king of Judah. The infant son of Zedekiah, king of Judea, who was preserved when the rest of his brothers were slain (II Kings, 25:7) by the king of Babylon. One important aspect of the Lachish Letters involves the apparent use of a little boy, apparently a descendent of Zedekiah, to carry confidential letters. In the Bible, the sons of Zedekiah are not named. By the way, The Lachish Letters, dating from Palestine in the 7th century B.C., also raise an intriguing possibility, discussed by Hugh W. Nibley in "Two Shots in the Dark" in Book of Mormon Authorship (Noel B. Reynolds, ed., Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1982), pp. The full name has been shortened in Jeremiah's record to Baruch. This is consistent with viewing the hypocoristic Mulek as the diminutive of Malkiyahu, since a is often assimilated to o or u in the vocalic structure of most Semitic languages. The Book of Mormon states that after escaping from Judah, Mulek traveled to present-day America and set up a new civilization there. In c.587 BC, Jerusalem fell, and Zedekiah and the royal family were captured by the invading Chaldeans. John Welch, Deseret Book Comp., Salt Lake City, UT, 1992, pp. Mulek in the Book of … Yea, and do ye not behold that the seed of Zedekiah are with us, and they were driven out of the land of Jerusalem? This page was last modified on 27 May 2011, at 16:33. Scholars now recognize the possibility that someone could be called "son of the king" in the Bible without necessarily being a real biological son. var sc_security="76e589c4"; According to the Nephite record, Mulek escaped the massacre of his family at the hands of the Babylonians (cf. > > But there was allready a Jewidh king in Babylon before Zedekiah > > arrived there, Jehoyakim, his younger nephew, who was deported a few > > years earlier, but remained the king of the Jews and was on the > > Babylonean food ration list. 45:6). > > But I do not think, that Mulek was a son of Zedekiah. Sorenson, John L. "The 'Mulekites'." BYU Studies 30 (Summer 1990):6-22. Zedekiah and all the soldiers fled by night. It is therefore possible that the Mulek of the Book of Mormon is "Malchiah, son of the king" mentioned in Jeremiah 38:6. Mulek (/ ˈ m j uː l ɛ k /), according to the Book of Mormon, was the only surviving son of Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem.The Book of Mormon states that after escaping from Judah, Mulek traveled to the Americas and established a civilization there.. Mulek is important because he established one of the Book of Mormon Peoples and because Bible students have assumed that Nebuchadnezzar executed all of Zedekiah's sons, an observation unsupported by ancient evidence and refuted by the Book of Mormon account of Mulek's survival. But the Hebrew name here, MalkiYahu ben-hamMelek, should be translated "MalkiYahu, son of the king," the Hebrew word melek meaning "king.". According to the Book of Mormon, when Jerusalem was destroyed by Babylon during the reign of Zedekiah, all of the sons of Zedekiah were killed except Mulek. Recently I became curious about Mulek, the son of Zedekiah. A Chaldean war patrol chased them, caught them, and brought them to Nebuchadnezzar's camp at Riblah. But scholars have noted that a verse in Jeremiah might make reference to … At the end of the word Zedek, the iah suffix is the theophoric name of Jehovah, or Lord, for the Lord. He had an unknown number of sons, but all his sons would eventually perish by the sword (although the Book of Mormon would allege that one son of his, named Mulek, would escape, cross the Atlantic Ocean and found a nation that would figure in an alleged pre-history of the United States). The Book of Mormon only says Mulek was a son of Zedekiah. 107-108, as cited in the article "Was Mulek a 'Blood Son' of King Zedekiah?" Jeremiah 38:6 speaks of a "dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech . But my study led me in … 117-119). Malchiah is identified as "the son of Hammelech" in Jeremiah 38:6. The first clue of the existence and escape of Mulek, son of Zedekiah, can be found in 2 Kings 25:1-10, which reports that Nebuchadrezzar and "all his host" scattered "all the men" and "all [the king's] army" and burnt "all the houses of Jerusalem," and with "all the army" they destroyed the walls. 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; Mulek is important because he established one of the Book of Mormon Peoples and because Bible students have assumed that Nebuchadnezzar executed all of Zedekiah's sons, an observation unsupported by ancient evidence and refuted by the Book of Mormon account of Mulek's survival. The study of a seal owned by Jeremiah's scribe shows that his full name was Berekyahu (in English, Berechiah), although the biblical text uses only the shorter Baruch (Avigad). It was apparently at this time that young Mulek was spirited away to become the titular leader of a colony composed in part, as proposed in previous symposium papers, … Bible students have traditionally assumed that all of Zedekiah's sons were killed, so the Book of Mormon account goes against "common knowledge." 2 Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the Lord had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet. 1 Nephi 1:4), makes his first appearance in Mosiah 25. 1 Nephi 1:4), makes his first appearance in Mosiah 25. Non-LDS sources have helped refute something that has long been attacked in the Book of Mormon. (function() { And at the middle you have Mulek being the son of Zedekiah. Meeting Mulek When the Nephites who followed King Mosiah came into the land of Zarahemla, " they discovered a people, who were called the people of Zarahemla. Mulek - Son of Zedekiah. But his daughters, and presumably his wives, stayed at Mizpah until Gedeliah, a former minister with Babylonizing tendencies in Zedekiah's cabinet, was murdered by Ishmael, who then tried to deport the Mizpah colony. Author: Wright, H. Curtis Mulek, a Book of Mormon character, son of Zedekiah, escaped the sack of Jerusalem (587 B.C.) "Jerahmeel & Baruch." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 197 (Feb. 1970):16-42. These people were eventually discovered by Nephite refugees from lamanite predations in the south. Mulek. Indeed, as the Book of Mormon reveals, Zedekiah had a son named Mulek, who survived the destruction of Jerusalem and his father's death (Omni 1:15-16; Mosiah 25:2; Helaman 6:10; 8:21), and there is a possible reference to him in the Old Testament in the existence of one "Malkiyahu son of the king" (Jeremiah 38:6). According to the Book of Mormon, the Nephites and "Mulekites" formed a coalition, making Mosiah 2 king over both groups. Non-LDS sources have helped refute something that has long been attacked in the Book of Mormon. 41-43). JeffLindsay.com. Now, there was great rejoicing among the people of Zarahemla; and also Zarahemla did rejoice exceedingly, because the Lord had sent the people of Mosiah with the plates of brass which contained the record of the Jews." According to the Book of Mormon, Zedekiah's son Mulek escaped death and traveled across the ocean to the Americas, where he founded a nation, the Mulekites, which later merged with another Israelite splinter group, the Nephites, to form one nation who retained the name Nephites. Avigad, Nahman, "Jerahmeel and Baruch: King's Son and Scribe," Biblical Archeologist 42 (Spring 1979): 114-118. One case is in Jeremiah 36:26, where the king sends Jerahmeel to arrest Jeremiah and his scribe, Baruch. This, however, was unavailing. Mulek somehow managed to escape. Jeremiah 38:6 mentions Malchiah the son of Hammelech, … 6:10). . > > It does not clarify where he was living before coming to America. 6:10). Mosiah 25:2 A Descendant of Mulek: According to research primarily by Robert Smith and Benjamin Urrutia, biblical scholars have recently had interesting things to say about a person named Malchiah. For the village in Poland, see Mułek, West Pomeranian Voivodeship. For the village in Poland, see Mułek, West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Nephi recorded that it was during the first year of Zedekiah’s rule that Lehi was called to warn the people of Jerusalem about the … (Hel. Several factors indicate that he was. But nothing in the Bible or other known sources precludes the possibility of his escape from Jerusalem. _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); Zedekiah (63 Occurrences) 1 Kings 22:11 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, "Thus says Yahweh,'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.'" 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