Alma 25

Because the Lamanites had now killed many of their own relatives, they became even angrier with the Nephites and swore vengeance against them. They took their armies across the border and into the land of Zarahemla, where they destroyed the people and city of Ammonihah. In subsequent battles with the Nephites, they were killed and driven out. Most of the Lamanites killed were Amulonites, the descendants of Noah’s renegade priests.

Many Lamanites witnessed so much suffering and loss that they began to remember the words that Aaron and his companions had preached. They began to doubt their Lamanite traditions, and to believe in God. Many were converted. But their new Amulonite rulers would have none of it, and had them burned to death. This martyrdom then caused great dissension and anger among the Lamanites, who began hunting down and killing the Amulonites. And so the prophecies of the martyr Abinadi, whom Amulon and Noah’s priests had burned to death, were fulfilled as their descendants were hunted down and destroyed.

When the Lamanites saw that they could not defeat the Nephites, they returned to their own lands and joined with the remnants of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi people. Many of them converted to God, and buried their weapons. They became righteous people who kept the commandments and laws of Moses, and looked forward to the coming of Jesus Christ. They knew better than to suppose that salvation came from the law of Moses, but those laws strengthened their faith in Jesus Christ whose coming was foretold.

Mosiah’s sons and their missionary companions rejoiced for the success they’d had among the Lamanites. They saw that God had fulfilled their prayers and honored his word in every way.