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.
Yeshaya HaNavi tells the dying Chizkiya he is punished for not marrying. Chizkiya prays despite the decree, gains fifteen years and marries Yeshaya's daughter.
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.
Yeshayahu tells the gravely ill Chizkiyahu he will die for not having children; Chizkiyahu prays anyway, gains fifteen years, and the sun goes back ten hours.