“[The people of Ammonihah] gave little heed to the fact that a Divine Guidance had piloted their great ancestor, Lehi, across the ocean to the Land of Zion. They also forgot how many times their repentant brethren had been saved from destruction at the hands of the Lamanites through God’s long-suffering and His mercy.
“If it had not been that God had protected and preserved the Ammonihahites, in spite of their many abuses of His grace, Alma cautioned them, that they, too, might have suffered even unto death as had many others” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 3:156).