[10] Nehor is then taken to face murder charges before Alma the Younger, high priest of the church of God and chief judge of the land.
Alma accuses Nehor of priestcraft, and then sentences him to death for killing Gideon and using a sword to enforce religious beliefs.
[14] Another group of Nehor's adherents live in Ammonihah, where the chief judge of the city orders the burning of sacred books and the massacre of women and children who believe in the church of God,[15] then imprisons the missionaries Alma and Amulek.
[16] Later on, the Book of Mormon talks of a city called Jerusalem, populated by Lamanites and two additional groups of Nephite dissenters, the Amulonites and the Amalekites.
[18] Kylie Turley, an English professor at Brigham Young University, suggests that the people of Ammonihah would have been quick to reject Alma if he taught them at all before his conversion.
[19] If Nehor was indeed the founder of a religion which the people of Ammonihah, the Amlicites, and the Amalekites later adhered to, says professor Michael Austin, Alma's difficulty in teaching and converting makes complete sense.
[22] Another scholar, Dr. Avram Shannon, explores the relationship between kingship and priesthood orders in the Book of Mormon and Old Testament.
[23] Grant Hardy compares Nehor's teaching that all will be saved at the last day no matter their actions to a common belief from the mid–18th century which was popular during Joseph Smith's lifetime called Universalism, pointing out that almost everywhere else in the Book of Mormon, the belief is that one must obey the commandments and follow Christ to be saved.
Korihor preaches similar doctrine against the church of God and his death leads directly to the introduction and rebellion of the Zoramites and their subsequent merger with the Lamanites.