Menashe Accuses Yeshayahu HaNavi of False Prophecy
King Menashe charges his grandfather Yeshayahu HaNavi with contradicting the Torah about when to pray; Yeshayahu flees, and the Gemara gives the answer.
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King Menashe charges his grandfather Yeshayahu HaNavi with contradicting the Torah about when to pray; Yeshayahu flees, and the Gemara gives the answer.
Fleeing King Menashe, Yeshayahu is swallowed by a cedar tree; Menashe has it sawn apart, and the prophet dies as the blade reaches his mouth.
The wicked King Menashe, Chizkiya's son, brands his grandfather Yeshaya HaNavi a false prophet over the fifteen added years, and puts him to death.
After Rav Ashi calls the wicked kings "our friends," King Menashe appears in his dream, stumps him on where to cut the bread, and explains his idolatry.