Mosiah 9: 3-9
Zeniff must have felt very much justified when King Laman agreed to let him possess two cities in peace and even ordered the Lamanites to vacate those two cities. He had been right to not seek to destroy the Lamanites by force, but he was still wrong in his efforts to possess the land of his inheritance when the Lord had just commanded his righteous people to leave that land and separate themselves from the influence of the wicked.