Mosiah Ch19

After the righteous flee from the kingdom, the Lamanites invade and Gideon seeks and slays Noah by fire. In his place, Limhi the son of Noah, rules the kingdom and establishes peace with the Lamanites by offering tribute to them.

Noah's army couldn't find the righteous followers of Christ because they were being protected by The Lord (v1). After this whole fiasco, there was a division among the people and some rebellious threatening a towards the king led my Gideon (v2-4). When they fought face to face, Noah ran when he was loosing and ran to one of those tall towers he had built and saw the Lamanite armies coming (v5-6). He pleads to be spared using the attack as the excuse when really he only cared about himself, so he was the one that led the people in fleeing to the wilderness (v7-9).

The Lamanites caught up and began to slay them, so Noah tells the men to leave their families who slow them down (v10-11)!! Of course love is powerful and many stayed and stopped the Lamanites by having their pretty daughters plead with the Lamanites for mercy (v12-13). Of course, the charms of women convinced the Lamanites to stop killing and just take them captive on the conditions of paying tribute and delivering king Noah when he showed up (v14-15).

Naturally when a kingdom is taken over, the enemy captures the royal. King Noah's family (or at least one son) was left behind and taken captive. Limhi, who was a just man, knew his father was wicked but did not desire for his demise (v16-17). Gideon sent his minions to look for the group that had fled and. Or been captured. They found those that had escaped except King Noah and his priests (v18). This group that had been convinced to leave their family's regretted thei decision and desired to return to their home but of course Noah didn't want that (v19-20).

When the majority sought to change commanders, they burned the king and sought the priests who fled, which brings us back to when they met the men of Gideon (v21-22). After learning the people were captive by the Lamanites, they reported the happenings to Noah and the priests (v23-24). The Lamanites decided that was good enough and promised not to slay them if they pay them half of what they own (v25-26). Limhi was made king and established peace even with the Lamanites having guards surrounding their lands (v27-28). The people supported their own prison wardens basically but they did have peace for two years (v29).