Pahoran says he is trying to mobilize a body of patriots and has sent a proclamation throughout the region and many freemen are flocking to Gideon to help restore order and reinstate the chief judge as the supreme executive over the country. But meanwhile the king-men who occupied Zarahemla had apparently made an alliance with the Lamanites and Ammoron had been promised that he would be made king of all the land once the Lamanites had helped the king-men conquer the Nephites.