Alma 17 – 20
It amazes me that none of the sons of Mosiah had the feeling that they could do as much good (or more) by being a king over their people than they could do preaching among the wicked and likely unreceptive Lamanites.
I wonder if this choice to accept a foreigner who pleased the king and grant them a position of status within the kingdom through marriage was a known practice among the Lamanites. In some ways it is what happened with Amulon (even if he and his fellow ex-priests stole their wives). It could have been considered a way to politically bolster the kingdom.
We are told that Ammon was among Lamanitish servants implying the possibility that some of the servants besides Ammon were not Lamanites.
I begin to wonder if Lamoni’s kingdom was one of the weaker Lamanite realms. That might be why he was interested in having a Nephites son in law and why his sheep were often plundered.
Ammon’s frank acknowledgement of what he had done must have made him seem even more powerful to Lamoni.
Just from his encounter with Ammon the father of Lamoni was partly converted without knowing any doctrine concerning Christ.
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