Yet Alma had experienced the wickedness and unholy practices of a tyrannical monarch: he knew only too well of King Noah, who had led his people in depravity and debauchery and thus to bondage and destruction (Mosiah 11:6, 14). Surely he would have known-from the writings on the plates of brass-of the likes of King Ahab, who, Noah-like,“did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger,” in the Old World, “than all the kings of Israel that were before him” (1 Kings 16:33).