What happened to the children of Noah’s former priests?

Thomas R. Valletta

“In a somber aftermath, we learn of the terrible fate of the former priests and their sons. … When the Nephite force ambushed the Lamanite army, it both killed ‘almost all the seed of Amulon and his brethren, who were the priests of Noah,’ and drove the remainder deeper into the wilderness where a rift occurred among the Lamanite soldiers. … After an ensuing mutiny, termed a ‘contention in the wilderness,’ ‘the Lamanites’ began ‘to hunt’ and kill ‘the seed of Amulon and his brethren’ (Alma 25:8). In a mournful ending to this episode, the record sadly observes that ‘they are hunted at this day by the Lamanites’ (Alma 25:9)” (Brown, “Marriage and Treaty in the Book of Mormon,” 110).

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