- Amalickiah marches his army to the city of Nephi.
- Amalickiah meets the king, who is pleased that Amalickiah gathered such a large army.
- Amalickiah’s servants approach the king and greet him with a bow.
- The king raises his hand is lift them from their bow as a token of peace.
- As the king raises the first servant, the servant stabs the king in the heart; the king falls to the ground.
- Frightened, the innocent servants of the king run away, and the guilty servants of Amalickiah begin blaming them for the king’s death
- Amalickiah and his army approach the crime scene, and pretending to be angry, he orders that the king’s servants be apprehended and put to death.
- A search party is dispatched in search of the innocent servants.
- Seeing they are being followed, the servants of the king escape northward, and arrive in the land of Zarahemla, where they join the Ammonites.
- The search party returns empty handed, and thus Amalickiah, through fraud and deceit, gaines total control over the Lamanites.
- When the queen finds out about the king’s death, she calls for Amalickiah and requests witnesses of the murder.
- Amalickiah meets the queen with his servants who killed the king; and they tell about the king’s servants who escape, and the queen believes them.
- Amalickiah eventually marries the queen, and thus becomes the supreme authority over the entire Lamanite nation.
- Those like Amalickiah, the Nephite dissenters, often become more wicked and ferocious than those who never knew the way of the Lord.