(2) for the son of Joseph, in the statement (Alma, 10:3) that Lebi was one of this patriarch's descendants.
MANTI. A Nephite military officer of the early days of the Judges. He with three others — Zeram, Amnor and Limher and their men, — were sent out by Alma to watch the Amlicites after their defeat by the Nephites, (B. C. 87). The next day they returned to camp in great trepidation, and reported that the Amlicites had joined an invading host of the Lamanites in the land Minon, and that together they were pushing with great haste towards the city of Zarahemla. Manti is only mentioned in connection with this incident, but it is not improbable that he was sent to settle the south country, and that the land of Manti was named after him.
MANTI, CITY OF. The chief city of the land of Manti. It was situated near the headwaters of the Sidon, and was the most southerly city of importance in that region. Being an outlying settlement of the Nephites, though strongly fortified, it suffered greatly by the invasions of the Lamanites. In the great war, inaugurated by Amalickiah, it was captured by the Lamanites (some time before B. C. 66), and by them converted into an important base for their operations against the Nephites, both east and west.* In B. C. 63, Gid and Teomner, two Nephite generals, recaptured it by stratagem; and Helaman took his Ammonite and other troops there and made it his headquarters. It was not again captured by the Lamanites during that long and disastrous war. In later Lamanite invasions it undoubtedly fell, more than once, into their hands, as it was in the direct line of the course they generally took when entering the Nephite territory.
MANTI, HILL. A hill near the city of Zarahemla, upon which Nehor, the murderer of Gideon, was executed, B. C. 91, (Alma, 1:15).
