It appears that Mormon, the abridger of Nephite history, intentionally framed the story of Alma the elder and his people onto Nephi’s vision of the tree of life using word links and other imagery.

Stoning was one of the ways that people were put to death according to the law of Moses, if they were seeking to turn the people alway from God. So you shall stone him to death, because he has attempted…

I was actually listening to the audio version of the Book of Mormon while mowing my lawn and Alma 28:8 stuck out to me: “And this is the account of Ammon and his brethren, their journeyings in the land of Nephi,their sufferings…