We were told in Alma 31:3 that the land of the Zoramites, Antionum, lay on the borders of the Nephite territory near a wilderness that “was full of the Lamanites.” The Lamanites are not far off, and the tenuous nature of the continuing Zoramite affiliation with the Nephites is apparently severed by the new and direct conflict with their nearest Nephite neighbor, the people of Jershon. In order to extract a military vengeance, the Zoramites could use allies, and they turn to the Lamanites to find them.