Helaman 9
It seriously sounds like Nephi made the prophecy before the actual murder had taken place in order that these five men might be on the scene so quickly that the people had not even had time to gather. These five must have arrived right after the murderer had fled. It is interesting that the chief judge who was murdered had the same name as the chief judge who took over when Nephi vacated the office of the Chief Judge save that the spelling was different. At first I wondered if it was the same man but with the name spelled differently (Cezoram versus Seezoram) but then I looked back and saw that Cezoram and his son were murdered in turn upon the judgment seat not long after Nephi abandoned the position and before the Lamanites conquered the bulk of the Nephite lands. In other words, there had been three chief judges murdered in a span of less than 10 years.
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