This Zoram should not be confused with the leader of the Zoramites described in Alma 30:59. All we know of this man’s life and military career is that he had the wisdom to ask the prophet Alma for guidance. Zoram hereby demonstrates possession of what is an unusual quality among military commanders—humility. If, by his pride, he had ventured out with his own plan for recovering the prisoners, there is no way that his mission would have been as successful. Because he inquired of the Lord through Alma, they recovered all the prisoners and not one soul of them had been lost (v. 8).