Wednesday, January 19, 2011  The covenant of peace realigned
Lamanite loyalties  In Alma 44:11 when Captain Moroni and the
Nephites have Zerahemnah and the Lamanites at their mercy,
Captain Moroni requires a covenant of peace to let them go. The
covenant of peace will actually require the Lamanites to align
themselves with the Nephites; it has that practical effect. To
keep this oath, when they go home, they will have to stay
disengaged from any popular Lamanite movements of aggression,
and this will put them in opposition to any Lamanite royal
command to muster for battle. If they wanted to keep their oath,
they would have been much better off getting their families and
going to live with the Nephites because if they continued to
live with the Lamanites, people would look askance at their
pacifism and even try to force them to arms.  When Amalickiah
defected to the Lamanites and first started his rabble-rousing,
it may have been those very people who had taken the peace oath
at Zerahemnah’s battle who reacte