The Lamanite daughters had a place where they would party away from prying eyes, except the priests of Noah happened to find them and watched them...(v1-4). Keep in mind they still have families with Limhi's people. On this instance, there were 24 daughters the priests kidnapped into the wilderness (v5). When their fathers found out they were missing, they blamed the people of Limhi and went to attack them in anger, and luckily Limhi was prepared because he saw them coming from the watch towers (v5-8).
The people of Limhi fought to protect themselves and did well but there more Lamanites so the battle was mostly even until the king of the Lamanites was found wounded (v9-12). He was questioned why he would attack after having made an oath of peace and found out about the whole missing daughters thing (v13-15). Honestly I think the daughters that were missing must have been at least one princess and from other high society families to cause this war.
So Limhi wants to search his kingdom for who did this but Gideon makes the connection with the priests (v16-18). He councils that the Lamanite king be sent to stop the armies coming because they are about to attack again (v19-20). Gideon remembers the prophecies and warnings of Abinadi and sees the possible outcome and prefers bondage over death (v21-22).
Limhi made the new path with the king who accepts the cause of contention was the priests of Noah (v23-24). The king goes in front of his army and convinces them of the peoples innocence, and the fact that they came without weapons to defend themselves pacified the Lamanites to peace (v25-26).
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