Meanwhile the former priests commenced to cultivate what they called the land of Amulon. When discovered by the Lamanites, with the wives they had kidnapped, they pleaded for mercy and were spared. Amulon and his group then joined the Lamanites, and soon after that the Lamanite king made Amulon the ruler of the lands of Amulon and Helam.
It was by virtue of this appointment that Amulon and his group became the overseers of the people of Alma, who were eventually freed from their brutality by the providence of God. These former priests instructed the Lamanites in the learning of the Nephites.