In Mosiah 21:15 it says that the Lord "began to soften the hearts of the Lamanites that they began to ease their burdens; yet the Lord did not see fit to deliver them out of bondage." How long of a time period was this? Or in other words, how "slow to hear their cry" (Mosiah 21:15) was the Lord? According to the chronology in Appendix A, from the time that Limhi made an oath that put his people in bondage to the Lamanite king (see Mosiah 19:25-26), it would be somewhere close to 18 years before Limhi, with the help of Ammon, would lead his people to freedom. [Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes] [See Appendix A]