18 Yea, and it came to pass that they fled, all that were not overtaken, even into the city of Nephi, and did call upon me for protection.
19 And it came to pass that I did arm them with bows, and with arrows, with swords, and with cimeters, and with clubs, and with slings, and with all manner of weapons which we could invent, and I and my people did go forth against the Lamanites, to battle;
20 Yea, in the strength of the Lord did we go forth to battle against the Lamanites;
21 For I and my people did cry mightily to the Lord, that he would deliver us out of the hands of our enemies, for we were awakened to a remembrance of the deliverance of our fathers.
22 And God did hear our cries, and did answer our prayers; and we did go forth in his might.
23 Yea, we did go forth against the Lamanites; and in one day and a night we did slay three thousand and forty-three; we did slay them, even until we had driven them out of our land.
24 And I, myself, with mine own hands, did help bury their dead.
25 And behold, to our great sorrow and lamentation, two hundred and seventy-nine of our brethren were slain.
26 And it came to pass that we again began to establish the kingdom; and we again began to possess the land in peace.
27 And I caused that there should be weapons of war made, of every kind, that thereby I might have weapons for my people, against the time the Lamanites should come up again to war against my people.
28 And I set guards round about the land that the Lamanites might not come upon us again unawares, and destroy us;
