Alma 44

Moroni said to Zerahemnah: You are surrounded, but we do not want to kill you. Remember, you attacked us first, but the Lord is with us. You see He has put you in our hands. This has happened because of our faith in Christ and you cannot destroy our faith.

Zerahemnah, I command you in the name of the all-powerful God to give up your weapons. We will spare you if you go away and do not come back to fight us.

If you will not do this, I will send my men to attack and kill every one of you. Then we will see who has power.

Zerahemnah gave up his weapons to the hands of Moroni and said to him: Here are our weapons. We will give them to you, but we will not promise to stay away. It is a promise we know we will break. It is not your God that has put us into your hands. Your armor and shields have protected you.

When Zerahemnah said these words, Moroni returned the sword and weapons and said: We will end this trouble. You will not leave alive unless you promise of peace.

Zerahemnah was angry. He rushed forward to kill Moroni. As he raised his sword, one of Moroni’s soldiers hit it and broke it. He also cut off Zerahemnah’s scalp. Zerahemnah ran without his hair back to his soldiers.

The Nephite soldier put Zerahemnah’s scalp on the point of his sword and lifted it up. He yelled to the Lamanites: Like the leader’s scalp fell to the earth, so will you fall to the earth unless you give up your weapons and give your promise of peace.

Many Lamanites were filled with fear and threw down their weapons at the feet of Moroni. They promised to never fight against the Nephites again. All who did this were allowed to leave into the wilderness.

This made Zerahemnah angry. He tried to get the rest of his soldiers to argue against the Nephites. Moroni became angry about the stubbornness of the Lamanites. He ordered his people to kill them. The Lamanites were quickly being killed by Nephite swords.

When Zerahemnah saw he was about to be killed, he yelled out to Moroni and promised they would never war against them again. So Moroni stopped the work of death. The Lamanites gave up their weapons, made a promise of peace and were allowed to leave.

There were so many dead bodies, they were not counted. The bodies were thrown into the Sidon River and they floated out to the sea.