their children and fled.
Mosiah 19:13
13 And it came to pass that those who tarried with their wives
and their children caused that their fair daughters should stand
forth and plead with the Lamanites that they would not slay them.
Mosiah 19:14
14 And it came to pass that the Lamanites had compassion on
them, for they were charmed with the beauty of their women.
Mosiah 19:15
15 Therefore the Lamanites did spare their lives, and took them
captives and carried them back to the land of Nephi, and granted
unto them that they might possess the land, under the conditions
that they would deliver up king Noah into the hands of the
Lamanites, and deliver up their property, even one half of all
they possessed, one half of their gold, and their silver, and all
their precious things, and thus they should pay tribute to the
king of the Lamanites from year to year.
Mosiah 19:16
16 And now there was one of the sons of the king among those
that were taken captive, whose name was Limhi.
Mosiah 19:17
17 And now Limhi was desirous that his father should not be
destroyed; nevertheless, Limhi was not ignorant of the iniquities
of his father, he himself being a just man.
Mosiah 19:18
18 And it came to pass that Gideon sent men into the wilderness
secretly, to search for the king and those that were with him.
And it came to pass that they met the people in the wilderness,
all save the king and his priests.
Mosiah 19:19
19 Now they had sworn in their hearts that they would return to
the land of Nephi, and if their wives and their children were
slain, and also those that had tarried with them, that they would
seek revenge, and also perish with them.
Mosiah 19:20
20 And the king commanded them that they should not return; and
they were angry with the king, and caused that he should suffer,
even unto death by fire.
Mosiah 19:21
21 And they were about to take the priests also and put them to
death, and they fled before them.
Mosiah 19:22
22 And it came to pass that they were about to return to the
land of Nephi, and they met the men of Gideon. And the men of
Gideon told them of all that had happened to their wives and
their children; and that the Lamanites had granted unto them that
they might possess the land by paying a tribute to the Lamanites
of one half of all they possessed.
Mosiah 19:23
23 And the people told the men of Gideon that they had slain the
king, and his priests had fled from them farther into the
wilderness.
Mosiah 19:24
24 And it came to pass that after they had ended the ceremony,
that they returned to the land of Nephi, rejoicing, because their
wives and their children were not slain; and they told Gideon
what they had done to the king.
Mosiah 19:25
25 And it came to pass that the king of the Lamanites made an
oath unto them, that his people should not slay them.
Mosiah 19:26
26 And also Limhi, being the son of the king, having the kingdom
conferred upon him by the people, made oath unto the king of the
Lamanites that his people should pay tribute unto him, even one
half of all they possessed.
Mosiah 19:27
27 And it came to pass that Limhi began to establish the kingdom
and to establish peace among his people.
Mosiah 19:28
28 And the king of the Lamanites set guards round about the
land, that he might keep the people of Limhi in the land, that
they might not depart into the wilderness; and he did support his
guards out of the tribute which he did receive from the Nephites.
Mosiah 19:29
29 And now king Limhi did have continual peace in his kingdom
for the space of two years, that the Lamanites did not molest
them nor seek to destroy them.
Mosiah 20 Chapter 20
Mosiah 20:1
1 Now there was a place in Shemlon where the daughters of the
Lamanites did gather themselves together to sing, and to dance,
and to make themselves merry.
Mosiah 20:2
2 And it came to pass that there was one day a small number of
them gathered together to sing and to dance.
Mosiah 20:3
3 And now the priests of king Noah, being ashamed to return to
the city of Nephi, yea, and also fearing that the people would
slay them, therefore they durst not return to their wives and
their children.
Mosiah 20:4
4 And having tarried in the wilderness, and having discovered
the daughters of the Lamanites, they laid and watched them;
Mosiah 20:5
5 And when there were but few of them gathered together to
dance, they came forth out of their secret places and took them
and carried them into the wilderness; yea, twenty and four of the
daughters of the Lamanites they carried into the wilderness.
Mosiah 20:6
6 And it came to pass that when the Lamanites found that their
daughters had been missing, they were angry with the people of
Limhi, for they thought it was the people of Limhi.
Mosiah 20:7
7 Therefore they sent their armies forth; yea, even the king
himself went before his people; and they went up to the land of
Nephi to destroy the people of Limhi.
Mosiah 20:8
8 And now Limhi had discovered them from the tower, even all
their preparations for war did he discover; therefore he gathered
his people together, and laid wait for them in the