Gid Stratagem Wine is wine brought by Laman to guards who were over the Nephites in the evening. Laman said, “we have taken of their wine and brought with us,” after saying that he and others had escaped from the Nephites (Alma 55:8). He told the guards, “Let us keep of our wine till we go against the Nephites to battle” (Alma 55:10).
The guards became “more desirous to drink of the wine,” saying, “We are weary, therefore let us take of the wine” (Alma 55:10; Alma 55:11). Many times, they “attempt to administer of their wine to the Nephites, that they might destroy them with poison or with drunkenness” (Alma 55:30). The Nephites would not partake of their wine until it had first been given to Lamanite prisoners (Alma 55:31).