“The People of Ammon”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet

It seems most fitting that this people be known as Ammonites, given that Ammon, like them, had once been unholy and unruly, and yet when converted had become a man of powerful faith and courage.

“They Were Called… the People of Ammon”

Upon settling in the land of Jershon, the Lamanite converts—or the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, as they had chosen to call themselves (see Alma 24:1)—became designated by their Nephite neighbors as Ammonites, or the people of Ammon. Thus this nation within a nation was named after the chief missionary who had labored among them and who now became their presiding high priest (see Alma 30:20).

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 3

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