A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Shemlon, Land of
SHEMLON, LAND OF. A region contiguous to Lehi-Nephi, apparently a neighboring valley. It was a portion of the Nephite domain until their exodus to Zarahcmla under the first Mosiah, when the Lamanites took possession of it, and ever afterwards retained it. They did not cede it to the people of Zeniff, as they did the neighboring lands of Lehi-Nephi and Shilom. Shemlon was so near the city of Lehi-Nephi that it could be overlooked from the high tower built near the temple by king Noah. It was in this land that the abduction of the daughters of the Lamanites, by the priests of Noah, occurred, which led to a war and other disastrous consequences, and later produced so many indirect results in the history of the Lamanites. At the time of the mission of the four sons of Mosiah, all the Lamanites of this land were converted to the Lord.