Ether 6:23 · Mosiah 29:16
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The brother of Jared's warning against the first Jaredite kingship (Ether 6:22-27), read as the record's earliest anti-monarchy statement (the corpus's older warnings sit in the Old Testament — Deuteronomy 17:14-20; 1 Samuel 8:11-18), made national law centuries later by Mosiah II's letter that abolished the kings. far end chosen as Mosiah 29:16 over the runner-up Mosiah 23:7: 29:16 is Mosiah II's own categorical legislative conclusion ('a king or kings to rule over you') that ends the monarchy - it condemns the institution of kingship as such, matching the warning's target, and its captivity theme is the argumentative core of the surrounding letter (a wicked king brings bondage, 29:17-21). Runner-up Mosiah 23:7 is Alma the Elder's personal refusal at Helam, chronologically between the Jaredite warning and Mosiah II's law but grounded on egalitarian non-esteeming rather than captivity, and it is not the law-making statement; 23:7 shares the 'it is not expedient… a king' clause verbatim with 29:16 as mos-kj-not-expedient. The record supplies its own in-text fulfillment one reign on: Corihor takes king Kib captive, 'which brought to pass the saying of the brother of Jared that they would be brought into captivity' (Ether 7:5). x-links: mos-kj-noah-as-argument (the letter's wicked-king profile) and hel-kj-gadianton-judiciary (the elected bench rotting as the letter feared a king would); the Jaredite dynastic chronicle on jaredites.md is the warning's longest demonstration - captivity after captivity down to national extinction. Purely thematic parallel, no shared phrasing.