When the people of Alma looked to him to be their ruler he taught them to jealously guard their right to make their own choices by not being ruled by someone else. Alma recognized the danger of turning our decision making over to another person. He knew that even if you have a good person to follow (as they had had with Zeniff) there was bound to come along a Noah who would abuse that trust.
It seems that the Lord performed a fatigue transfer in rescuing the people of Alma. They worked all night and in the morning their captors who had been resting in the night were left exhausted in a profound sleep.
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