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The false prophet of the Book of Revelation (16:13, 19:20, 20:10) The false prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:13–40) Noadiah (Nehemiah 6:14) Shemaiah the Nehelamite (Jeremiah 29:24) Simon Magus (Acts 8:9–24) Zedekiah, son of Maaseiah (Jeremiah 29:21) Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah (1 Kings 22:24)
The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baสฟal (๐๐๐ lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility . The Baal Cycle consists of six tablets, itemized as KTU 1.1–1.6.
Elijah proposes a direct test of the powers of Baal and Yahweh (both Asherah and her prophets disappear from the story entirely): he and Baal's prophets will each take one of two bulls, prepare it for sacrifice and lay it on wood, but put no fire to it. The prophets of Baal choose and prepare a bull accordingly.
Worship of Baals and Ashtoreths has been schematically interspersed between these chapters, but no trace of a vital, popular belief in any foreign gods can be detected in the stories themselves. Baal prophets appeared in Israel centuries later; but during the age of the judges when Israel is supposed to have been most deeply affected by the ...
Jezebel's prophets failed to summon Baal in burning the bull sacrifice, despite their cries and cutting themselves. Elijah, however, succeeded when he summoned Yahweh, impressing the Israelites. He then ordered the people to seize and kill the prophets of Baal and Asherah at the Kishon River. In response, Jezebel vows to kill Elijah.
The Baal Cycle, the most famous of the Ugaritic texts, [1] displayed in the Louvre. The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language. Approximately 1,500 texts and fragments have been found to date.
The Devil whispers to the Antichrist; detail from Sermons and Deeds of the Antichrist, Luca Signorelli, 1501, Orvieto Cathedral.. In religion, a false prophet or pseudoprophet is a person who falsely claims the gift of prophecy or divine inspiration, or to speak for God, or who makes such claims for evil ends.
A third source, or set of sources, were cycles of stories about various prophets (Elijah and Elisha, Isaiah, Ahijah and Micaiah), plus a few smaller miscellaneous traditions. The conclusion of the book (2 Kings 25:18–21, 27–30) was probably based on personal knowledge.