And now I return to an account of the wars [v]118[/v] between the Nephites and the Lamanites, in the eighteenth year of the reign of the judges. For behold, it came to pass that the Zoramites became Lamanites; therefore, in the commencement of the eighteenth year the people of the Nephites saw that the Lamanites were coming upon them; [i]3103[/i] therefore they made preparations for war; yea, they gathered together their armies in the land of Jershon.