Abinadi was one of the greatest of prophets; he was filled with the Holy Ghost, but the people would not listen to his warnings. The more he exposed their iniquities, the more furious raged their anger against him. Neither did they believe his words. In their own opinion they were everything that was good; they were mighty in their own strength, and unapproachably wise in their own conceit. Never, if you could believe them, had a better, more valiant, more innocent people lived. Filled with this spirit of self-conceit, they took Abinadi, bound him, and hurried him with railing accusations, before King Noah. "Here is the man, we deliver him into thy hands; thou mayest do with him as seemeth thee good." As has been pointed out before, the king was the head, the ruler, and the ultimate appeal of all.