The accomplices in Amalickiah’s fraud now become his false witnesses (v. 34). The queen, believing Amalickiah has done her a big favor, is pulled into the ultimate conspiracy. She marries Amalickiah, allowing him to not only dethrone the Lamanite king (see Alma 47:4, 16), but also obtain the kingdom of the Lamanites “by his fraud, and the assistance of his cunning servants” (v. 35). It reminds us of the soap operas of today’s television shows. Mormon’s analysis of the Nephite dissenters entirely forgetting the Lord their God (v. 36) is a second witness to his previous precept. Those who “have been once enlightened by the Spirit of God” and fall away “become more hardened, and thus their state becomes worse” (Alma 24:30).