The people of Ammon would not put up with Korihor. They probably felt that to allow him to preach would invalidate the Lord’s promise to preserve them (see Alma 27:12). Ammon, as the high priest, did not have political power, but he did have jurisdiction over the church, and apparently had the authority to cast Kohihor out from among them (see D&C 42:20–28). The people of Gideon followed the same pattern, but went one step further, they took him to the chief judge of the land (Alma 30:21). The high priest and the chief Judge were not the same person (see v. 29 below). Although there was no law against a man’s belief (see vv. 7, 11 above), there were laws against adultery (v. 10 above), of which Korihor was guilty, and certainly for disturbing the peace and disrupting the community. That he was guilty of the latter is strongly implied in the following verse (v. 22).