In the year AD 331, leading up to the final phases of warfare between the Nephites and the Lamanites, Aaron, king of the Lamanites brings an army of 44,000 against Mormon, with his 42,000. Mormon defeats Aaron and causes him to flee (see Mormon 2:9). But the victory against Aaron is short-lived. A period of unprecedented violence, bloodshed, and mayhem follows, with the final battle at Cumorah taking place around AD 385. Those Nephites who have fled to the army of Aaron, as Moroni later reports, “have fallen victims to their awful brutality” (Moroni 9:17). Thus ends the chronicles of warfare in the Book of Mormon, an abiding confirmation of the prophecy of Lehi, nearly a thousand years previous, that the Nephites, should they reject the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, will be destroyed (see 2 Nephi 1:9–10).