The sins of the fathers are visited upon the heads of the children. Limhi’s people were in a bondage of their own making, one resulting from their fathers’ having rejected the words of Abinadi and put him to death (see Mosiah 7:26-28). How appropriate that Ammon, who would act as their liberator, first taught and testified to them of the same truths that were rejected when taught by Abinadi. Having seen the fulfillment of Abinadi’s prophecy and come into bondage, Limhi’s people were now sufficiently humble to accept those truths-truths which would free them from the spiritual bondage that is always associated with rejecting the Lord’s servants, and enable them to free themselves from the temporal bondage the Lamanites had imposed upon them.