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Ammon explains that he is rejoicing over God’s miraculous deliverance of so many people from their otherwise certain destruction. Alma 26:13–15 13 Behold, how many thousands of our brethren has he loosed from the pains of hell; and they are brought to sing redeeming love, and this because of the power of his word which [...]

Aaron rebukes Ammon for boasting. Alma 26:10–12 10 And it came to pass that when Ammon had said these words, his brother Aaron rebuked him, saying: Ammon, I fear that thy joy doth carry thee away unto boasting. 11 But Ammon said unto him: I do not boast in my own strength, nor in my [...]

The “Marvelous Light of God” Alma 26:1–4 1 And now, these are the words of Ammon to his brethren, which say thus: My brothers and my brethren, behold I say unto you, how great reason have we to rejoice; for could we have supposed when we started from the land of Zarahemla that God would [...]

The killers are mostly apostate Nephites, not Lamanites. Alma 24:28–30 28 Now the greatest number of those of the Lamanites who slew so many of their brethren were Amalekites and Amulonites, the greatest number of whom were after the order of the Nehors. 29 Now, among those who joined the people of the Lord, there [...]

When the unconverted Lamanites see that their brethren would die rather than defend themselves, their hearts are “swollen” with mercy. Alma 24:20–27 20 And it came to pass that their brethren, the Lamanites, made preparations for war, and came up to the land of Nephi for the purpose of destroying the king, and to place [...]