Now that Abinadi has completed his message the powerful protection of the spirit has withdrawn, and he may now be apprehended for the death sentence pronounced upon him.
Textual: The break in chapters occurs here because Mormon has finished a cited section, and now proceeds to an abridgement. The speech of Abinadi was significant, and so Mormon includes it in its entirety. Here the purpose of the narrative is to give the story so that we may understand the aftermath of Abinadi's speech. Rather than present original sources, we have Mormon condensing and restating the history at this point.