Narrative: Mormon inserts information about the Nephites into the discussion of Tulaboth and Coraintumr. Zarahemla will be the place where Coriantumr strikes, and Mormon prepares us ahead of time for the capture of that city. For Mormon, the internal contentions have weakened the seat of the Nephite government. What he does not tell us here, but we will learn below, is that the presumed direction of Lamanite attack was on the periphery, not directly into Zarahemla. When the Nephites assumed that the Lamanites would not attack Zarahemla, they redistributed their forces to the outlying areas presuming that they would there be on the front lines of a Lamanite attack.