Why did the Anti-Nephi-Lehies bury their swords in the ground?
Yea, except he doth visit them with death and with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence, they will not remember him. Helaman 12:3 Helaman 12:3
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.