This chapter is a letter from Moroni but it is not a reply to Helaman's letter. Instead, it is a very angry letter to the chief judge Pahoran in Zarahemla. Moroni was excited over the success of Helaman on the western front but very angry that the authorities in Zarahemla were not giving Helaman more support. It is interesting that in spite of this angry letter to Pahoran he spread the good news in his own vicinity concerning the sensational success of Helaman and also his 2,060 sons, not one of whom had been killed.
After writing his angry letter to Pahoran, Moroni was so inspired by the miraculous success of the president of the Church on the western front that Moroni resolved to begin liberating more cities on the eastern front.