Tag: Alma

I always thought that Ammoron offered a city in exchange for prisoners because he had no prisoners to trade (having lost them to Moroni). As I look closer I see that Ammoron offered a prisoner exchange to Moroni after Helaman took another city from him. Ammoron offered the city because he expected to lose it…

Helaman became the ladder of the armies in his part of the way because I’m his first battle, all the more senior leaders were killed before his band came to the aid of their remaining men and secured the victory.

I just realized that when Helaman said that the prisoners were in the land of Nephi if they were still alive he was speaking 4 years later and yet he still didn’t know that Moroni had freed all the Nephites prisoners a couple of years earlier. I don’t know for sure but I realized that…

Moroni decided to make his own deal when he didn’t like the response of Ammoron. He didn’t need to refuse Ammoron, he simply went and took back the Nephite prisoners so that Ammoron had no capital to bargain with (although he would try to bargain territory later to Helaman in trade for prisoners.

It is extremely bold of Ammoron to declare that Nephi stole the government from Laman and Lemuel when his own brother had murdered the king of the Lamanites to usurp the throne that Ammoron then inherited. “I’m fighting you because I claim that your grandfather did the same thing that my brother just finished doing…

At the time when they had been converted from the traditions of their fathers, the people of Ammon made a covenant to never take up arms, even in defense. At a later time when their hosts were under threat from the Lamanites the sons of those people of Ammon made a covenant to never relinquish…

The fortifications that Moroni devised became a hinderance for the night when they feel into the hands of the Lamanites. Likewise when we fail to maintain something that was our strength it can be turned against us and become a weakness. This is the inverse of the Lord making weak things become strong unto us.

This instance of fighting the king-men first before the Lamanites was the first instance of Moroni cleansing the inner vessel. He knew his priorities and the priority want fighting the Lamanites, it was preserving righteousness.

Mariahtook and his people were driven by ambition but also by fear. They salary claimed some of the land of Lehi (ambition) and believed that Moroni would slaughtered them when he heard (fear). This is an example of how Satan will willingly make use of any negative emotion to draw people into wickedness and poor…

Amalikiah was a cunning man. He failed in his first attempt against Moroni because he didn’t understand him, thus he supposed that his clever moves like putting the Zoramites in charge of his armies would excuse his victory without him even coming to battle.