If we review just a bit, in the thirtieth year Moroni had been preparing to attack the city of Morianton (which was north of the city of Lehi) when the people of the cities of Lehi, Morianton, and Nephihah (and who were now massed together in the city of Nephihah) had fled from the Lamanites (Alma 59:5). Later in the same year Moroni received the epistle of Pahoran and went to his aid in the land of Gideon. Once Pahoran's situation had been corrected, Moroni marched with Pahoran in the thirty-first year and retook the city of Nephihah. When Moroni subsequently marched on the land of Lehi, "the Lamanites fled" (Alma 62:30) apparently northward because they were eventually to meet up with the armies of Lehi and Teancum (and apparently the Nephites that had fled from the city of Nephihah). [Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes]