According to the text it was written by Enos, a Nephite prophet.

According to the Book of Mormon, Jarom () was a Nephite prophet, the son of the prophet Enos, who lived from about 420 BC to about 361 BC.

According to the Book of Mormon, Helaman ( ) was a Nephite prophet and soldier who lived around the 1st century BC.

Helaman was the eldest son of Alma the Younger, another Nephite prophet.

He was the son of Lehi, a prophet, founder of the Nephite people, and author of the first two books of the Book of Mormon, First and Second Nephi.

And the city of Zarahemla did take fire .” The Book of Mormon indicates that “ the great city of Zarahemla ” was rebuilt sometime in the first century A. D. As his doomed nation retreated northward from their enemies, the 4th century prophet and historian Mormon recorded that Nephite “ towns, and villages, and cities were burned with fire .”

According to the Book of Mormon, Alma (; c. 173 BC – c. 91 BC ) was a Nephite prophet who established the Church of Jesus Christ in the Americas during the reign of the wicked King Noah.

According to the Book of Mormon, Alma, the son of Alma () was a Nephite prophet often referred to as " Alma the Younger " to distinguish him from his father, who is often referred to as " Alma the Elder ".

According to the Book of Mormon, Enos (; ( Hebrew: א ֱ נו ֹ ש ׁ), was a son of Jacob, a Nephite prophet and author of the Book of Enos.

Soon after the second Nephite evacuation of Lehi-Nephi, these Nephites were en route to Zarahemla when they came to “ a place which was called Mormon, having received its name from the king, being in the borders of the land having been infested, by times or at seasons, by wild beasts .” This place of Mormon contained “ a fountain of pure water ” near which the prophet Alma — a fugitive from King Noah ’ s court —“ did hide himself in the daytime from the searches of the king ” and preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ to “ as many as believed him ” ().

Since they will never " taste death ", in the Book of Mormon the Nephite prophet Mormon contemplates if they are already immortal.

According to the Book of Mormon, Ammaron () ( Ammoron a frequent scribal variant in the Printer's Manuscript ) was a Nephite record-keeper and perhaps a prophet.

Joseph Smith said the large plates of Nephi were continually maintained until about AD 385, when the prophet Mormon, seeing that the destruction of the Nephite nation was imminent, abridged the large plates of Nephi.

According to the Book of Mormon, Helaman, son of Helaman, ( sometimes referred to as Helaman II ) was a Nephite prophet who lived around 30 BC.

Nephi was the eldest son of Helaman, another Nephite prophet.

Moroni, a Nephite prophet, addresses his words to later generations and speaks of secret combinations in the Book of Ether: " When ye shall see these things combinations come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation.

The Book of Mosiah opens with the Nephites ( the descendants of Nephite people and the people of Zarahemla who merged and are now called the Nephites ) living in peace under the rule of righteous King Benjamin in the land of Zarahemla.

According to the Book of Mormon, King Benjamin, son of King Mosiah the first, was the second Nephite king to rule over Zarahemla.

Alma the Younger lived in Zarahemla during the end of the reign of the Nephite King Mosiah.

Before his death, Amaleki passed the Nephite record to King Benjamin, who was the son of the aforementioned King Mosiah.

The sons of Mosiah, named Ammon, Aaron, Omner and Himni, chose to devote themselves to missionary labors preaching to the people of the Lamanite nation, which periodically went to war against the Nephite nation.

Amaleki speaks of the then current Nephite king, named Mosiah.

Mosiah arranges for the people of Zarahemla to be taught the Nephite language, and Zarahemla is able to recount to him their oral history.

Though Book of Mormon authors are not explicit about the practices in these Nephite temples, they were patterned " after the manner of the temple of Solomon " () and served as gathering places for significant religious and political events ( e. g. Mosiah 1-6 ; 3rd Nephi 11-26 ).

The greatest amount of information about Nephite society comes from the middle epoch, from about 150 BC to 200 AD ( recorded in the books of Mosiah, Alma, Helaman, 3 Nephi, and 4 Nephi ).

The last Nephite king was Mosiah II.

According to the Book of Mormon narrative, the Nephite Mosiah and his followers “ discovered that the people of Zarahemla came out from Jerusalem at the time that Zedekiah king of Judah, was carried away captive into Babylon ” ( about 587 B. C.

At some point before Mosiah discovered Zarahemla, the people of Zarahemla had discovered Coriantumr ( not to be confused with the later Nephite dissenter of the same name ).

Benjamin succeeded his father Mosiah as the second Nephite king of Zarahemla.

The Mulekites eventually adopted the language and religion of the Nephites, and the two peoples formed one nation, establishing Zarahemla as their new capital, and naming the Nephite Mosiah as their king.

The Book of Mosiah describes his original antipathy toward the Nephite Church of God and his subsequent conversion after a sudden vision of an angel.

) It is entirely possible that full-blooded Lamanites were also in Ammonihah at this time: missionary work by the sons of Mosiah had instigated friendly relations between some Lamanites and Nephites, and Ammonihah was apparently close to the border between Nephite and Lamanite land.

) The diversity of peoples in Ammonihah was great enough that when Amulek introduced himself to Alma, he first identified himself by saying, “ I am a Nephite .” ( Alma 8: 20.

In Mormonism the Three Nephites are three Nephite disciples of Jesus described in the Book of Mormon who were blessed by Jesus to " never taste of death ; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men, even until all things shall be fulfilled according to the will of the Father, when I shall come in my glory with the powers of heaven.

Their apostasy from the Church was conjoined with plans to rebel against the Nephite government.

Although the Book of Mormon states explicitly that Nephi was the first king of the Nephites (), the word " Nephite " does not seem to be used in a clearly political sense until later.

The political Nephite state existed with clear borders () and within it lived people who were religious Nephites and also those who did not practice the Nephite religion (), due to freedom of religion which was upheld by their laws (; ).

Although Hagoth was a Nephite, these Mormons regard Polynesians as Lamanites.

In the Book of Mormon, the labels “ Nephite ” and “ Lamanite ” ultimately became political terms of convenience, where membership was varied and fluid, and not based on skin color.

The house of his father, Alma, was in Zarahemla, the Nephite capital land, and Helaman may also have lived in Zarahemla.

The Land of Zarahemla was the Nephite capital for many years.

At about the age of ten, he was visited by Ammaron and given instructions on where to find the sacred engravings of the Nephite prophets and on what to engrave upon them.

Zoram² was a chief captain of the Nephite army, mentioned in only two verses in the Book of Mormon ().

Zoram³ was a Nephite apostate, mentioned only briefly (, ), but notable as the leader of the Zoramites, an apostate group.

According to the Book of Mormon, Captain Moroni ( c. 100 BC-56 BC ) was an important Nephite military commander and patriot who lived during the 1st century BC.

When taught the Nephite language, the Mulekites recounted their descent from Mulek, which was then recorded.