It appears that many Lamanites started to worry that their king was now sympathetic to a religion and a historical interpretation of the acts of Laman and Lemuel--(that they were in the wrong). This might have been too much. However, it was the Amalekites and the Amulonites that stirred them up to anger to the point that they came to kill the people converted by Ammon and his brethren. The Amalekites and Amulonites might have been caught geographically and culturally between the church of God in the land of Zarahemla and the church of God in the land of Ishmael, which could have been a forecast of political and economic disaster. [Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes] [See the commentary on Alma 23:18]