And it came to pass after they had thus suffered for many days, (and it was on the twelfth day, in the tenth month, in the tenth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi) that the chief judge over the land of Ammonihah and many of their teachers and their lawyers went in unto the prison where Alma and Amulek were bound with cords.
And the chief judge stood before them, and smote them again, and said unto them:
“If ye have the power of God deliver yourselves from these bands, and then we will believe that the Lord will destroy this people according to your words.”