Once again history tells us more of the way in which this promise was fulfilled. Perhaps a part of the promise was relative isolation even in the land of promise, but the Book of Mormon history makes it clear that contact with groups labeled Lamanite were frequent, and contentious. The eventual diminution of the righteousness of the remnants of Lehi's family eventually negated the promise, and ushered their destruction long before the other nations discovered the land and overran it. Lehis descendants were indeed scattered. In this prophecy, Lehi outlines the same final ending for his people as Nephi had done earlier.