Chapter 2: Helaman the second becomes chief judge, gadianton leads the band of kishkumen, helamans servants slay kishkumen, the gadianton band flees into the wilderness

Chapter 3: Many nephites migrate to the land northward, they build hoses of cement and keep many records tens of thousands are converted and baptized, the word of God leads men to salvation, nephi the son of helaman fills the judgement seat

Chapter 4: Nephite dissenters and lamanites join forces and take the land of zarahemla, the nephites defeats come because of their wickedness, the church dwindles and becomes weak like the lamanites

Chapter 5: Nephi and lehi devote themselves to teaching, their names invite them to pattern their lives after their forebearers, Christ redeems those who repent, nephi and lehi make many converts and are imprisoned and fire encircles them, a cloud of darkness overshadows a group of 300 people, the earth shakes and a voice commands men to repent, nephi and lehi converse with angels, and the multitude are encircled by fire

Chapter 6: The righteous lamanites preach to the wicked nephites, both peoples prosper during an era of peace and plenty, lucifer the author of sin guides the gadianton robber in their murders and wickedness they take over the nephite government

The prophecy of nephi, the son of helaman, God visits threatens the people of nephi that he will visit them in his anger, to their utter destruction, except they repent of their wickedness, God smiteth the people of nephi with pestilence they repent and turn unto him, samuel the lamanite prophecies unto the nephites, comprising chapters 7 – 16 inclusive

Chapter 7: Nephi is rejected in the north and returns to zarahemla he prays upon his garden tower and then calls upon the people to repent or perish

Chapter 8: Corrupt judges seek to insite the peole against nephi, abraham, moses, zenos and many other prophets testified of Christ, by inspiration nephi announces the murder of the chief judge

Chapter 9: Messengers find the chief judge dead in the judgment seat, they are imprisoned and later released, by inspiration nephi identifies seantim as the murderer, nephi is accepted by some as a prophet

Chapter 10: The Lord gives nephi the sealing power, he is given the power to loose on earth and in heaven, he commands the people to repent or perish, the spirit carries him from congregation to congregation

Chapter 11: Nephi persuades the Lord to replace their war with a famine, many people perish, they repent and nephi opportunes the Lord for rain, nephi and lehi receive many revelations, the gadianton robbers entrench themselves in the land

Chapter 12: Men are unstable and foolish and quick to do evil, the Lord chastens his people, the nothingness of men compared to the power of God, in the day of judgement men shall gain everlasting life or everlasting darnation