Ammon knows much of this situation, not only by the spirit that was certainly with him, but because of the experience he had shared with his friend Alma the Younger (see Mosiah 27). Indeed, Ammon’s very presence before King Lamoni was the direct result of a similar experience he witnessed as Alma the Younger passed through a similar state. Ammon knew that the king was alive, and knew what was happening to him because it had also happened to Alma.