The doctrine of judgment by works applies to the wicked as well as the righteous. Those who have the blood of prophets and Saints upon their hands will receive their just reward. Those who killed the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum will be justly rewarded.
“They Were Angry with the King and Caused That He Should Suffer, Even Unto Death by Fire”
In fulfillment of Abinadi’s prophecy, King Noah is put to death by fire at the hands of his own people (verse 20). The priests of Noah flee into the wilderness, and their city state comes under bondage to the Lamanites. Such events are but an affirmation of the verity that “Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him” (Proverbs 26:27).
God has promised to “recompense unto every man according to his work, and measure to every man according to the measure which he has measured to his fellow man” (D&C 1:10).
“I will visit upon you the evil of your doings” (Jeremiah 23:2), he promised; “and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations” (Ezekiel 7:3). “It is a righteous thing with God,” Paul wrote, “to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you” (2 Thessalonians 1:6). Kings and kingdoms, the great and the small, all are subject to the law of recompense by a just God who either in this life or the world to come balances all accounts (see Jeremiah 25:14; Jeremiah 50:29; Ezekiel 7:9).