Ammon Defends King Lamoni’s Flocks | Alma 17–18

While King Lamoni’s servants and Ammon take care of the sheep, a group of thieves tries to steal them. Ammon defends the flock and saves the king’s sheep. The servants tell the king what Ammon did and how Ammon has the strength of many men. The king thinks that Ammon is the Great Spirit and wants to speak with him but is fearful.

Based on Alma 17:25, 27–28, 31, 33, 37; Alma 18:2–5, 8–11.

Alma 17
25 But Ammon said unto him: Nay, but I will be thy servant. Therefore Ammon became a servant to king Lamoni. And it came to pass that he was set among other servants to watch the flocks of Lamoni, according to the custom of the Lamanites.

27 Therefore, as Ammon and the servants of the king were driving forth their flocks to this place of water, behold, a certain number of the Lamanites, who had been with their flocks to water, stood and scattered the flocks of Ammon and the servants of the king, and they scattered them insomuch that they fled many ways.

28 Now the servants of the king began to murmur, saying: Now the king will slay us, as he has our brethren because their flocks were scattered by the wickedness of these men. And they began to weep exceedingly, saying: Behold, our flocks are scattered already.

31 And it came to pass that he flattered them by his words, saying: My brethren, be of good cheer and let us go in search of the flocks, and we will gather them together and bring them back unto the place of water; and thus we will preserve the flocks unto the king and he will not slay us.

33 And those men again stood to scatter their flocks; but Ammon said unto his brethren: Encircle the flocks round about that they flee not; and I go and contend with these men who do scatter our flocks.

37 But behold, every man that lifted his club to smite Ammon, he smote off their arms with his sword; for he did withstand their blows by smiting their arms with the edge of his sword, insomuch that they began to be astonished, and began to flee before him; yea, and they were not few in number; and he caused them to flee by the strength of his arm.

Alma 18
2 And when they had all testified to the things which they had seen, and he had learned of the faithfulness of Ammon in preserving his flocks, and also of his great power in contending against those who sought to slay him, he was astonished exceedingly, and said: Surely, this is more than a man. Behold, is not this the Great Spirit who doth send such great punishments upon this people, because of their murders?

3 And they answered the king, and said: Whether he be the Great Spirit or a man, we know not; but this much we do know, that he cannot be slain by the enemies of the king; neither can they scatter the king’s flocks when he is with us, because of his expertness and great strength; therefore, we know that he is a friend to the king. And now, O king, we do not believe that a man has such great power, for we know he cannot be slain.

4 And now, when the king heard these words, he said unto them: Now I know that it is the Great Spirit; and he has come down at this time to preserve your lives, that I might not slay you as I did your brethren. Now this is the Great Spirit of whom our fathers have spoken.

5 Now this was the tradition of Lamoni, which he had received from his father, that there was a Great Spirit. Notwithstanding they believed in a Great Spirit, they supposed that whatsoever they did was right; nevertheless, Lamoni began to fear exceedingly, with fear lest he had done wrong in slaying his servants;

8 And it came to pass that king Lamoni inquired of his servants, saying: Where is this man that has such great power?

9 And they said unto him: Behold, he is feeding thy horses. Now the king had commanded his servants, previous to the time of the watering of their flocks, that they should prepare his horses and chariots, and conduct him forth to the land of Nephi; for there had been a great feast appointed at the land of Nephi, by the father of Lamoni, who was king over all the land.

10 Now when king Lamoni heard that Ammon was preparing his horses and his chariots he was more astonished, because of the faithfulness of Ammon, saying: Surely there has not been any servant among all my servants that has been so faithful as this man; for even he doth remember all my commandments to execute them.

11 Now I surely know that this is the Great Spirit, and I would desire him that he come in unto me, but I durst not.

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[MDavis-jrzn]

I love the stories in the Book of Mormon. They truly testify of faith in Jesus Christ.

[dayzzr]

Ammon has always been a favorite historical/scriptural figure of mine. Grateful to know of him and the miracles that were brought about as God worked through him.

[hearttoheartme]

These videos are of top rate quality production. Up with some of the greats like The Ten Commandments, etc.These are making my testimony of the Book of Mormon stronger with every passing video because of them. Thank you to the production team and the actors for their excellent work.

[wbmusik]

Great lesson of faith as shown by Ammon.

[cybeledalmas-lewis]

Love the visual perception of the scriptures

[ThunderTails]

I am watching this on a Sunday afternoon while having my cinnamon granola 🥣 with 🥛. I also have Ginger 🍋 ade.

[spencerpalmer]

I wonder if we are going to get the famous Book of Mormon War Chapters after the 3 Nephi videos, because I check the Book of mormon website that their currently on the Savior visiting the America's?

[stephenkenney]

Ammon was a great missionary and teacher, but I'm not going to lie, I don't think any other missionary in history got his foot in the door with a potential convert by maiming a bunch of dudes!

[kennethbutler]

Oof. This seems like a disarming experience for those guys. 😂

[chadluke]

I love immediate JUSTICE, as we see in this story. Those who commit crimes should be punished quickly and severely, again, as we see in this story.

[GwPoKo]

I don't quite understand when Ammon was protecting the flocks and doing good among Lamoni's land, why did Lamoni think that Ammon could be the Great Sprit to send forth punishments upon Lamoni's people because of their murders? Didn't Ammon do good though? I would think that Lamoni would be exceedingly glad that Ammon was protecting the flocks. Instead, Lamoni took this action negatively.

[teti_]

My cousin Tony Tuitupou would’ve been the perfect Ammon. Great job though!

[bgardunia]

There were no sheep in the americas until after Columbus.

[shawnlarrabee]

The actors are looking more like native Americans now.