Alma — Chapter 35
1 After Amulek finished talking, he and Alma left the people and went to the land of Jershon.
2 The rest of their brothers also came to Jershon after they were done teaching God’s word to the Zoramites.
3 After most of the Zoramite [rulers and priests] talked to each other about the gospel they were taught, they were angry about it, because it would destroy their priestcraft. So they would not obey what they had heard.
4 Then they gathered together all the people in the land and talked with them about what had been said.
5 The people’s rulers and priests and teachers did not let the people know what they thought, but they found out what all their people thought.
6 Then they threw out all the people who believed the words Alma and his brothers had taught. Many were thrown out, and they came to the land of Jershon.
7 Alma and his brothers helped them.
8 The Zoramites were angry with the Ammonites, who lived in Jershon. The chief of the Zoramites, who was a very wicked man, told the Ammonites to throw out any Zoramites who came to them from their land.
9 The chief of the Zoramites said he would hurt the Ammonites if they did not throw them out. But the Ammonites were not afraid of what he said, so they did not throw them out, but took them in, and gave them food and clothes, and land to own. They helped them with whatever they needed.
10 This made the Zoramites very angry with the Ammonites, so they began to mix with the Lamanites and make them angry with the Ammonites, too.
11 So the Zoramites and Lamanites got ready to make war against the Ammonites and Nephites.
12 This is how the seventeenth year ended.
13 Then the Ammonites left the land of Jershon and came to the land of Melek, so the Nephite armies could fight the Lamanite and Zoramite armies in the land of Jershon. War began between the Lamanites and Nephites during the eighteenth year of the judges. (There will be more about these wars later on.)
14 Alma and Ammon and their brothers, and Alma’s two sons went back to Zarahemla, having been tools in God’s hands in bringing many Zoramites to repentance. The Zoramites who repented were thrown out of their land, but they were given land in Jershon. They were going to fight to protect themselves and their wives and children, and their lands.
15 Alma was very sad about his people’s sins, and about the wars and killings and fights they had. He had taught the gospel, or sent others to teach the gospel, to the people in every city. He saw that the people’s hearts were getting hard, and that they did not want to obey all of God’s commandments, so his heart was very sad.
16 Alma had each of his sons come to him so he could command them to do righteous things. We have the record he kept of the commandments he gave his sons.
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