Text: Mormon returns to his historical narrative, picking up the thread he had dropped at the end of chapter 27 and the beginning of chapter 28. He may have intentionally echoed Alma 28:1: “And now it came to pass that after the people of Ammon were established in the land of Jershon.… ”
While chapter 28 sounds like a new beginning, it was not a chapter break in the 1830 edition and therefore not a chapter break in Mormon’s redaction. Mormon began a historical narrative, interrupted it to insert Alma’s soliloquy, and is now returning to that earlier point: the mourning caused by the great battle in the fifteenth year of the reign of the judges (Alma 28:2–7).