Alma 47

This chapter starts with talking about people who did not want to go to battle with the Nephites, in fact they were dead set against it. I wonder if these were the very same Lamanites who had already had a confrontation with the Nephites, knew that God was with them, and had even made a covenant that they would never again go up to battle against them. I suspect these are the covenant makers based on how vehemently they oppose going to war, even at the risk of disobeying their king:

2 And it came to pass that when the proclamation had gone forth among them they were exceedingly afraid; yea, they feared to displease the king, and they also feared to go to battle against the Nephites lest they should lose their lives. And it came to pass that they would not, or the more part of them would not, obey the commandments of the king.
6 And they had appointed a man to be a king and a leader over them, being fixed in their minds with a determined resolution that they would not be subjected to go against the Nephites.

Ya, I think this is them. Let's see what happens to them.

There are more former covenant-makers in this diverse army, aren't there? The Nephite dissenters led by Amalickiah make up part of this newly mobilized Lamanite army:

36 Now these dissenters, having the same instruction and the same information of the Nephites, yea, having been instructed in the same knowledge of the Lord, nevertheless, it is strange to relate, not long after their dissensions they became more hardened and impenitent, and more wild, wicked and ferocious than the Lamanites—drinking in with the traditions of the Lamanites; giving way to indolence, and all manner of lasciviousness; yea, entirely forgetting the Lord their God.

That Amalicikiah is a sly old fox.