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Rh and a desolation for a number of years after the destruction of the city, the stench from the rotting bodies of its former citizens making it uninhabitable. The name of Nehors was added because those who had been slain were followers of that false teacher.  DISCIPLES, THE TWELVE. When the risen Redeemer appeared to the Nephites in the land Bountiful (A. C. 34), he chose twelve men as his disciples, to whom he gave authority to perform the rite of baptism and administer in the other ordinances of the Gospel. On these twelve, who are always called Disciples in the Book of Mormon, and never Apostles, was conferred the power to judge the descendants of Lehi at the final judgment day, as they themselves were to be judged by the Twelve Apostles chosen by the Lord from among the Jews. The names of the twelve Nephite disciples were: Nephi, his brother Timothy and his son Jonas, Mathoni, Mathonihah, Kumen, Kumenonhi, Jeremiah, Shemnon, Jonas, Zedekiah and Isaiah. To these twelve our Savior gave many instructions, which he withheld from the multitude.

On one occasion, toward the close of His ministrations, He asked them, one by one: What is it that you desire of me, after I am gone to the Father? Then nine of them said, We desire, after we have lived unto the age of man, that our ministry, wherein thou hast called us, may have an end, that we may speedily come unto thee in thy kingdom. And he said unto them, Blessed are ye, because ye desire this thing of me; therefore, after that ye are seventy and two years old, ye shall come unto me in my kingdom, and with me ye shall find rest.

Then He turned to the three who had not answered, and again asked them what they would have Him do for them. But they faltered in their reply; their wish was such a peculiar one, that 