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Chapter 33: 2000 child warriors (Alma 56-58) from the Book of Mormon Storybook
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Chapter 33: 2000 child warriors (Alma 56-58) from the Book of Mormon Storybook

Alma 56:45 And now I say unto you, my beloved brother Moroni, that never had I seen so great courage, nay, not amongst all the Nephites.

This is a story about the children of the people with the long name. Do you remember how they buried their weapons and their pride in a hole? And they promised God that they would never dig up their weapons or their pride again. Well, that promise quickly became very hard to keep because when they went to live with the Nephites, they were chased by a Lamanite army. And the Nephites had to protect the people with the long name. They had to take their own swords and give up their own lives simply because the Anti-Nephi-Lehies had made a promise and didn’t want to break it.

And that was hard enough the first time. But the wars between the Lamanites and the Nephites continued on and on and on. Amalickiah was just one leader among many leaders, and when he died, his brother Ammoron took over so the war wouldn’t stop. And the war went on and on and on for fa…

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