## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 177

###### Sifrei Devarim 177:1
[Sifrei Devarim 177:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/177:1)

(דברים יח יט) **וְהָיָה הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִשְׁמַע אֶל דְּבָרַי** – שְׁלֹשָׁה מִיתָתָם בִּידֵי שָׁמַיִם: הַכּוֹבֵשׁ נְבוּאָתוֹ, כְּיוֹנָה בֶן אֲמִתַּי, וְהַמְּוַתֵּר עַל דִּבְרֵי נָבִיא, כַּחֲבֵירוֹ שֶׁל מִיכָה, וְנָבִיא שֶׁעוֹבֵר עַל דִּבְרֵי עַצְמוֹ כְּעִידּוֹא. וּשְׁלֹשָׁה מִיתָתָם בְּבֵית דִּין: הַמִּתְנַבֵּא מַה שֶּׁלֹּא שָׁמַע, כְּצִדְקִיָּה בֶן כְּנַעֲנָה; וּמַה שֶּׁלֹּא נֶאֱמַר לוֹ, כַּחֲנַנְיָה בֶן עַזּוּר, שֶׁהָיָה שׁוֹמֵעַ דְּבָרִים מִפִּי יִרְמְיָה שֶׁהָיָה מִתְנַבֵּא בַּשּׁוּק הָעֶלְיוֹן וְחוֹזֵר וּמִתְנַבֵּא בַּשּׁוּק הַתַּחְתּוֹן; וְהַמִּתְנַבֵּא בְּשֵׁם עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה וְאוֹמֵר: כָּךְ אָמְרָה עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה, אֲפִלּוּ כִּוֵּן אֶת הַהֲלָכָה לְטַמֵּא אֶת הַטָּמֵא וּלְטַהֵר אֶת הַטָּהוֹר!

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim 18:19) "And it shall be, the man who will not heed My words": There are three whose death is at the hands of Heaven: one who suppresses his prophecy, like Yonah the son of Amittai; one who dismisses the words of a prophet, as did the colleague of Michah (viz. I Kings 20:35), and a prophet who transgresses his own prophecy, as did Iddo, viz. (*I Kings* 13:21). And there are three whose death is at the hands of *beth-din*: one who prophesies what he did not hear (from G-d), like Tzidkiyahu ben Cna'anah (viz. *I Kings* 22:24); and what was not spoken to *him*, like Chananiah ben Azur, who heard things from the mouth of Jeremiah, who prophesied in the upper marketplace and went and prophesied in the lower marketplace (viz. Jeremiah 28); and one who prophesies in the name of idolatry, i.e., "This is what the idol says" — even if what he said was consistent with the *halachah*, to rule unclean what was unclean, and clean what was clean — it being written (*Ibid*. 20) "But the prophet who shall presume, etc."