Alma 47
The king of the Lamanites gave Amalakiah command of the loyal part of his army because he trusted that Amalakiah would not defect to the other side seeing as he had persuaded the king to fight the Nephites in the first place. The king was right about that but was ignorant that Amalakiah did not consider him an ally but only a tool.
I never realized before that the place of arms that the Lamanite army fled under the command of Lehonti was the same place in the land of the Zoramites where Alma gave his marvelous discourse comparing faith to a seed.
I had always assumed that the servants of Amalakiah who slew the king were some of the men who fled from the Nephites with him. That may be true but I am certain that he had gained other followers from among the Lamanites who he also trusted enough that they may have taken that task for him.
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