It was a “Nephite locale remembered primarily for its ‘great city’ whose inhabitants boasted ‘God could not destroy, because of its greatness.’ Yet the city suffered complete annihilation in a single day at the hands of the Lamanites (Alma 9:4; 16:9–10; 81 b.c.). A three-day journey from Melek and bordered on the west by wilderness, the city of Ammonihah was located in the same environs as the city of Noah (Alma 8:5–6). According to tradition, the land and city were named after their first possessor, of whom the record is silent (Alma 8:7)” (Largey, Book of Mormon Reference Companion, 50).