Zeniff was Arsaces I the Parni

[Geiserik]

Taking the "promised land" in 1 Nephi 18:23 for Canaan or Israel we
can trace all the events in the BoM to events happening on the same
dates in classical history books.


Lehi becomes Jeremiah, Nephi the captain of Pharaoh Necho, The land
Nephi Pontus. The biggest king, with Gods gift for languages, who
united two kingdoms Mosiah happens to be Mithridates 6 of Pontus,
who
spoke 25 languages fluently, annexed the Crimea and made an
pact with the Scythes. Limhi was Mithidates II the Parth, he was the
son of Zeniff


This Mormon book Mosiah contains two other records, that about Zeniff
(200 BC) and Limhi (120 BC), who left Zarahemlah/Scythia in search of
the land Nephi (Pontus).


The Record of Zeniff-An account of his people, from the time they
left the land of Zarahemla until the time that they were delivered
out
of the hands of the Lamanites. Comprising chapters 9 to 22


inclusive. CHAPTER 9
Zeniff leads a group from Zarahemla to possess the land of Lehi-
Nephi.
The Lamanite king permits them to inherit the land. There is war
between the Lamanites and Zeniff's people. About 200-187B.C.


1 and I, being Zeniff, having been taught in all the language of the
Nephites, and having had a knowledge of the land of Nephi, or of the
land of our fathers' first inheritance, *and having been sent as a
spy among the Lamanites that I might spy out their forces, that our
army might come upon them and destroy them-but when I saw that which
was good among them I was desirous that they should not be destroyed.
2 Therefore, I contended with my brethren in the wilderness, for
Iwould
that our ruler should make a treaty with them;


Arsacid dynasty (wikipedia)
(247 BC-AD 224) Persian dynasty. It was founded by Arsaces (r.
c.250-211? BC) of the Parni tribe, which originally dwelt east of the
Caspian Sea and entered Parthia after the death of Alexander the
Great
(323 BC), gradually extending control southward. Arsacid power
reached
its peak under Mithradates I (r. 171-138 BC).
The government was influenced by that of the Seleucid dynasty and
tolerated the formation of vassal kingdoms. The dynasty legitimized
its
rule over former Achaemenian territories by claiming descent from the
Achaemenian king Artaxerxes II.
It controlled trade routes between Asia and theGreco-Roman world and
used its resultant wealth to erect many buildings. The dynasty was
overthrown in 224 by the Sassanid dynasty.
(unquote)


Zarahemlah was later known as the historical Khazaria, the area
between
the rivers Don and Volga, inclusive Crimea, which was occupied around
200 BC by the Scythes. The Scythian tribe the Parni's entered Persia
around that time and became the kingdom of the Parths, which was
partly Zoroastrian and partly Jew. (Nephites and Zoramites ).


So the first king of the Parths Arsaces is a good candidate for the
identification of Mormons Zeniff of Mosiah 9.