It is no wonder that the Nephites later imagined that Mormon could lead them to victory again – he stepped down as their leader after two successive years of victory. Afterwards they began to do in their military efforts.
They failed to understand that he stepped down because of their wickedness and that thanks to that wickedness they would have stayed losing even with him still leading them. Their only hope would have been too understand the message of him leaving and then choosing to repent.
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