Mosiah 20

The priests of King Noah were ashamed to return. When a small group of the daughters of the Lamanites gathered to sing and dance and make merry, the evil priests discovered them and secretly watched them. The priests carried away twenty-four of the Lamanite daughters.

When the Lamanites learned their daughters were missing, they were angry with the people of Limhi. The Lamanites thought Limhi’s people took them. The king went with his army to destroy the people of Limhi.

From the tower, Limhi saw the Lamanite army coming. He quickly gathered his people together and waited in the fields and forests. When the Lamanites came, the people of Limhi began to attack them from their hiding places and began to kill them. The battle became awful.

The Lamanites were twice as many as the people of Limhi. But the men of Limhi fought for their lives and for their wives and for their children; therefore they fought like dragons. And the Lamanites were pushed out.

They found the king of the Lamanites among the wounded, but he was not yet dead. When his wounds were treated, he was brought to King Limhi. Limhi asked him: Why did you come to war against my people? My people have not broken the promise I made to you.

The Lamanite king said: I have broken my promise because your people took our daughters. In my anger, I sent my army to kill you. Limhi did not know anything about this. He said: I will search among my people and whoever has done this will be killed.

When Gideon, the king’s captain, heard these things, he said to the king: I ask you to wait. Do not search this people. Do not blame them. Remember the priests of your father. They are in the wilderness. They are surely the ones who stole the Lamanite women. Tell them these things, so they will be calm towards us.

There are only a few of us and the Lamanites are coming with all their many armies. If their king does not settle them down, we will all be killed.

The words of Abinadi are being fulfilled, because we would not listen to the words of the Lord and repent. Let us put a stop to the shedding of so much blood.

Limhi told the Lamanite king all the things about his father and the priests that went into the wilderness. The king understood and said to them: Come with me without weapons to meet my armies and I promise that my people will not kill your people.

So they followed the king without weapons to meet the Lamanites. He bowed down before his armies and spoke for his people. When the Lamanites saw Limhi’s people had no weapons, they had mercy on them and returned with their king peacefully to their own land.