Alma 56:25 25 Neither durst they march down against the city of Zarahemla;
neither durst they cross the head of Sidon, over to the city of
Nephihah.

Alma 56:26 26 And thus, with their forces, they were determined to maintain
those cities which they had taken.

Alma 56:27 27 And now it came to pass in the second month of this year,
there was brought unto us many provisions from the fathers of
those my two thousand sons.

Alma 56:28 28 And also there were sent two thousand men unto us from the
land of Zarahemla.  And thus we were prepared with ten thousand
men, and provisions for them, and also for their wives and their
children.

Alma 56:29 29 And the Lamanites, thus seeing our forces increase daily, and
provisions arrive for our support, they began to be fearful, and
began to sally forth, if it were possible to put an end to our
receiving provisions and strength.

Alma 56:30 30 Now when we saw that the Lamanites began to grow uneasy on this wise, we were desirous to bring a stratagem into effect upon them; therefore Antipus ordered that I should march forth with my little sons to a neighboring city, as if we were carrying provisions to a neighboring city.

Alma 56:31 31 And we were to march near the city of Antiparah, as if we
were going to the city beyond, in the borders by the seashore.

Alma 56:32 32 And it came to pass that we did march forth, as if with our
provisions, to go to that city.

Alma 56:33 33 And it came to pass that Antipus did march forth with a part
of his army, leaving the remainder to maintain the city.  But he
did not march forth until I had gone forth with my little army,
and came near the city Antiparah.

Alma 56:34 34 And now, in the city Antiparah were stationed the strongest
army of the Lamanites; yea, the most numerous.

Alma 56:35 35 And it came to pass that when they had been informed by their
spies, they came forth with their army and marched against us.

Alma 56:36 36 And it came to pass that we did flee before them, northward. 
And thus we did lead away the most powerful army of the
Lamanites;

Alma 56:37 37 Yea, even to a considerable distance, insomuch that when they saw the army of Antipus pursuing them, with their might, they did not turn to the right nor to the left, but pursued their march in a straight course after us; and, as we suppose, it was their intent to slay us before Antipus should overtake them, and this that they might not be surrounded by our people.

Alma 56:38 38 And now Antipus, beholding our danger, did speed the march of
his army.  But behold, it was night; therefore they did not
overtake us, neither did Antipus overtake them; therefore we did
camp for the night.

Alma 56:39 39 And it came to pass that before the dawn of the morning, behold, the Lamanites were pursuing us.  Now we were not sufficiently strong to contend with them; yea, I would not suffer that my little sons should fall into their hands; therefore we did continue our march, and we took our march into the wilderness.