Now we come back to the priests of king Noah who kidnaped the Lamanite girls and created all of this persecution and warfare against the Nephites in the first place. The wicked priests were as bad as the Lamanites because they conducted nighttime raids on the Nephites just to steal food:
“And he caused that his people should watch the land round about, that by some means they might take those priests that fled into the wilderness, who had stolen the daughters of the Lamanites, and that had caused such a great destruction to come upon them. For they were desirous to take them that they might punish them; for they had come into the land of Nephi by night, and carried off their grain and many of their precious things; therefore they laid wait for them. And it came to pass that there was no more disturbance between the Lamanites and the people of Limhi, even until the time that Ammon and his brethren came into the land.”