Whosoever shall lay their hands upon you by violence, ye shall command to be smitten in my name; and, behold, I will
smite them according to your words, in mine own due time. Doctrine & Covenants 24:16
Why did the Anti-Nephi-Lehies bury their swords in the ground?
So they could be washed bright through the blood of the Son of God.
If we [the Anti-Nephi-Lehies] should stain our swords again they can no more be washed bright through
the blood of the Son of our great God. Alma 24:13
(This occurred, according the LDS footnote for this chapter, somewhere between 77 and 90 BCE.
