When the people of Ammonihah heard from the mouth of Amulek the same scathing denunciation of their wickedness as that which had characterized the bitter rebuke they had received from Alma, they were amazed. From the mouths of two witnesses they now heard the identical testimony. The words of Amulek confirmed the words of Alma; inspired with prophetic utterance, their thoughts were one. Like thieves caught with stolen goods, the Ammonihahites were not only astonished, but some of them were sore afraid. To allay one another's fears, and to bolster their morale, the bravest among them strove with exceeding cunning to twist and turn the words of Alma and Amulek so that they might, as it were, "catch them in their words." As the fowler sets his net to ensnare the birds, the Ammonihahites for their own delight, sought to entrap God's servants in meshes of their own making.
The Ammonihahites, to rid themselves of these unwanted messengers of doom, these heralds of disaster, these whom they said were self-appointed priests who prophesied to them of certain destruction if they did not repent, tried to find some way by which both Alma and Amulek could be brought before their courts, there to be accused of false crimes by witnesses suborned for that purpose. The people, themselves, aided in the cause of evil. They became the servants of sin. They mocked, they ridiculed, they spat upon, and they smote God's holy servants. But, undaunted by the hard hearts of the Ammonihahites, and also notwithstanding their spite which was keen and inexhaustible, Alma and Amulek met with courage and fortitude all their wicked designs.