Pisqa’ 1771
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“Now, as for the person who does not obey my words” (Dt.18:19)—
there are three
who are condemned to death
at the hands of Heaven:
[A prophet] who suppresses his prophetic message,
like Jonah b. Amitai (Jon.1:1-3);
one who adds his words to the words of a prophet,
like the companions of Micah (Jud.17:1ff.);
and a prophet who violates his own prophetic message,
like Ido2 (1Ki.13:11-19).
And there are three
who are condemned to death
at the hands of the court:
One who prophesies what he never heard,
like Zedekiah b. Chenaanah (1Ki.22:24-28);
one who said what was not said to him,
like Hananiah b. Azzur (Jer.28:1-17)—
who heard things from Jeremiah’s mouth
as Jeremiah delivered prophecy
in the Upper Market,
and Hananiah b. Azzur went and prophesied
in the Lower Market;3
and one who prophesies in the name of a foreign cult,
saying: thus says [the god of] a foreign cult!
[And he is condemned to death by the court]—
even if his words confirm the [sages’] tradition
regarding what is unclean and what is clean.4