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Articles_of_he_Bishop_of_Uramiah, page : 226
There is no nation known to history like the people of
Israel, which during a period of less than four hundred years,
was infested with myriads of false prophets, not to mention
the swarms of sorcerers, soothsayers and all sorts of witch-
crafts and magicians. The false prophets were of two kinds:
those who professed the religion and the Torah (Law) of
Yahweh and pretended to prophesy in His Name, and those
who under the patronage of an idolater Israelite monarch
prophesied in the name of Baal or other deities of the
neighboring heathen peoples. Belonging to the former
category there were several impostors as contemporaries with
the true prophets like Mikha (Micah) and Jeremiah, and
to the latter there were those who gave much trouble to
Elijah, and caused the massacres of the true prophets and
believers during the reign of Ahab and his wife Jezebel.
Israel, which during a period of less than four hundred years,
was infested with myriads of false prophets, not to mention
the swarms of sorcerers, soothsayers and all sorts of witch-
crafts and magicians. The false prophets were of two kinds:
those who professed the religion and the Torah (Law) of
Yahweh and pretended to prophesy in His Name, and those
who under the patronage of an idolater Israelite monarch
prophesied in the name of Baal or other deities of the
neighboring heathen peoples. Belonging to the former
category there were several impostors as contemporaries with
the true prophets like Mikha (Micah) and Jeremiah, and
to the latter there were those who gave much trouble to
Elijah, and caused the massacres of the true prophets and
believers during the reign of Ahab and his wife Jezebel.