Ammon is brought before King Limhi coloring page

Ammon is brought before King Limhi

This Ammon in the above picture is NOT the more well known Ammon, the son of King Mosiah I  This Ammon was sent by King Mosiah to look for some of his people who two or three generations before had returned to the Land of Nephi.  

This can be confusing.  Several generations before King Mosiah I left the Land of Nephi with all the righteous Nephites who would accompany him.  They traveled northward and found the land of Zarahemla.  Zarahemla was founded by a different group of Israelites.  The two people merged into one group and Mosaih I became the king.  His son was King Benjamin.  Mosiah II was actually the grandson of Mosiah I.  

There was a group of Nephites, from the time of King Benjamin's early reign, who wanted to return to the Land of Nephi.  (It has been speculated that perhaps the Land of Nephi had a nicer climate and that is why the people wanted to go back there.)  Many years later, in the time of King Mosiah II, the people who stayed in Zarahemla wanted to know what had happened to their friends and family members who had gone back to the Land of Nephi.  These people who wondered what had happened the those people bugged King Mosiah II a bunch about it. This is when King Mosiah II sent Ammon and his group to try and find the Land of Nephi and to try and find out what happened to those Nephites who had gone back.  

Ammon found the people he was looking for.  He, and a small number of his men went to the city,  but the king of the land, King Limhi, thought that Ammon and his men were the wicked priests of Limhi's father, the now-dead King Noah. So King Limhi had Ammon and those that had approached the city with him, thrown into prison for two days.  

When Ammon was brought before King Limhi things were cleared up pretty quickly.  Ammon explained that the was from Zarahemla.  This made King Limhi and his court very happy.  (King Limhi had sent a group of men to try and find Zarahemla and they never found it, so they assumed that it had been destroyed.)  So, in any case, King Limhi and his people rejoiced that Zarahemla still existed.  King Limhi thought that he and his people were the only Nephites left.  And these Nephites were under bondage to the Lamanites.  

Eventually, King Limhi and his people were able to escape and Ammon led them back to Zarahemla.  The drawing above is of when King Limhi first finds out who Ammon is.  Ammon is bound and under armed guard.  you can see the queen looking on.  The king has just broken into a big smile.

Below are some drawings from previous posts of the second Ammon who is mentioned in the Book of Mormon.  He went on a mission to the Lamanites, became a servant of the king, and then when the local robbers tried to scatter and steal the king's flocks, Ammon defended King Lamoni's flocks, his own life, and his fellow servants.  Those servants brought the arms that Ammon cut off to the king.

Ammon was able to teach the king all about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  This story is a little later on in the Book of Mormon.  I think that King Mosiah must have named his son after Ammon the explorer.  By the way, Ammon did not feel worthy to baptize King Limhi and King Limhi's people, so they had to wait until they escaped their bondage to the Lamanites.

These weapons and outfits are based on the idea that maybe the Book of Mormon people were the ancient inhabitants of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of Eastern North America over 1600 years ago.  There are actual DNA studies that show that some of the Native Americans from that area have an allele that is also only found in Israel.  

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Ammon vs the Robbers

(This is Ammon the Missionary, NOT Ammon the Explorer.) 

Ammon teaches King Lamoni
(This is not the same Ammon.  This Ammon, the missionary,
was probably named after Ammon the Explorer.)