An unnamed king of the Lamanites who ruled from the city of Nephi when Amalickiah and his fellow Nephite dissenters came up into the land of Nephi. Amalickiah stirred the Lamanites to anger against the Nephites, and the king sent a proclamation through his land calling his people to gather for war against the Nephites (Alma 47:1). Most of the people refused, fearing both to displease the king and to lose their lives in battle (Alma 47:2-3). Angered at their disobedience, the king gave Amalickiah command of the part of the army that remained loyal and ordered him to compel the rest to arms (Alma 47:3).
Amalickiah instead used that command to dethrone the king. Through a sequence of deceptions, he gained the favor of the dissenting Lamanite army and arranged for their leader, Lehonti, to have him made second-in-command, then had a servant poison Lehonti by degrees until he died, leaving Amalickiah chief commander (Alma 47:4-16). He marched the army to the city of Nephi, where the king came out to meet him, supposing Amalickiah had carried out his orders (Alma 47:20-21). Amalickiah’s servants bowed before the king as if to honor him, and as the king reached to raise the first of them, that servant stabbed him to the heart (Alma 47:22-24). Amalickiah’s servants then raised a cry that the king’s own servants had killed him; the king’s servants fled, and Amalickiah’s pretended pursuit of them won over the people (Alma 47:25-30).
With the king dead, Amalickiah took possession of the city of Nephi, married the widowed queen, and was acknowledged king over all the Lamanites (Alma 47:35).