Unlike his father, King Noah, who had preceded him on the throne, Limhi was a courageous and a God-fearing man. He had seen the afflictions of his people increase with the examples his father had set, and, with them, he had suffered the burdensome tasks that were imposed by their Lamanite bondsmen.
No doubt, Limhi was a student of the Sacred Scriptures; in them he found where God had delivered the Children of Israel from Egyptian bondage and had caused that they should escape the perils of their long journey in the wilderness. He read where the Lord had brought them through the Red Sea on dry ground, and that He had fed them with manna from above. King Limhi also read where, in the dry Arabian Desert, water, by the power of God, was brought forth from the granite rock so that the Children of Israel could slake their thirst. Of these things, Limhi reminded his people, and from hearing them again they gained courage and hope.
Limhi then turned to their own experiences. This same God, he said, brought their fathers out of Jerusalem and thereby saved them from wicked bondage under unpitying enemies. God has preserved this people until now according to the promise He made to them when first Lehi's colony disembarked from the ship which under divine guidance they had prepared. The Lord promised them that as long as they were obedient and kept His commandments, they would be blessed and prospered in the land. King Limhi now declared that through no other faults than their own, they were in sore bondage to the Lamanites. He said it was the result of wickedness and the abominations of which they were guilty that the Lord "has brought us into bondage."