“Women and Children Being Armed with Weapons of War”
In preparation for battle, all Jaredites (excluding Ether, see verse 12), even women and children, were equipped with armor and armed with weapons of war. One can scarcely imagine such a war, where every person- young and old, man, woman or child- is compelled to fight for his or her very life. This verse gives us a glimpse of the horrors of a war of total annihilation.
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