Bad Choices Bind us

Alma 52:39

"But behold, there were many that would not; and those who would not deliver up their swords were taken and bound, and their weapons of war were taken from them, and they were compelled to march with their brethren forth into the land Bountiful."

These people would not surrender when the rest of their army did. They did not want to give up on their war.  The Nephites thus had to bind them and force them to be prisoners. Since they chose to stubbornly go on with their unjust cause, they suffered. Their poor choices literally bound them and they became captives.