Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.

It tells the story of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah ben Amittai who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh but tries to escape the divine mission.

The Book of Haggai is named after its presumed author, the prophet Haggai.

Three general possibilities are that a person, possibly named Zephaniah, prophesied the words of the book of Zephaniah ; the general message of a Josianic prophet is conveyed through the book of Zephaniah ; or the name could have been employed, either during the monarchic or post-monarchic period, as a ‘ speaking voice ’, possibly for rhetorical purposes.

< p > prophet Mormon was not named after his father ; he was named after the land of Mormon.

According to the Book of Mormon, Moroni was the son of Mormon, the prophet for whom the Book of Mormon is ostensibly named.

It is a first-person narrative, beginning around 600 BC, of a prophet named Nephi.

As she led more individuals out of slavery, she was named " Moses " by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, an allusion to the prophet in the Book of Exodus who led the Hebrews to freedom from Egypt.

The LDS believe that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to a 14-year old boy named Joseph Smith and called him to be a prophet.

After hearing about the efforts of a prophet named Karnu to resist French rule and forced labour, Mgboundoulou decided that he would no longer follow French orders.

After making an introductory appeal to " Re-Horakhte, Set, and Nephthys " for the ultimate resolution of this issue by the royal Vizier, the prophet ( named Pra ' emhab ) laments his workload.

Prophetstown was named for Wabokieshiek ( White Cloud ), the prophet who lived upon the land.

The city is named after Moroni, a prophet in the beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ).

The city is so named because when it was first settled, the Latter-day Saint prophet Brigham Young visited and said the town reminded him of the Swiss Alps.

It is named after Lehi, a prophet in the Book of Mormon.

Severianus had fallen under the influence of Alexander of Abonutichus, a self-proclaimed prophet who carried a snake named Glycon around with him, but was really only a confidence man.

The angel also told Mary that she will give birth to a holy son, named Jesus, who will be a great prophet, to whom God will give the Gospel.

Taking advantage of this dissatisfaction, as well as a religious revival inspired by a Lenape prophet named Neolin, Pontiac planned a resistance.

It was during this time that news spread among the reservations of a Paiute prophet named Wovoka, founder of the Ghost Dance religion.

Isaiah 8: 1-15 continues the previous chapter: the prophet tells of the birth of another child, his own son named Maher-shalal-hash-baz ( yet another symbolic name ), then predicts that after Ephraim and Syria are destroyed the Assyrians will come like a river in flood to " cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel " ( Isaiah 8: 8 ).

He was a Syrian named Eunus, and he had been a prophet and conjurer among the slaves.

He is named after the prophet of Cthulhu with the same name from H. P.

* Friedrich Nietzsche, in his influential work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, created the character of the hermit Zarathustra ( named after the Zoroastrian prophet Zarathushtra ), who emerges from seclusion to extol his philosophy to the rest of humanity.

Finally, the prophet Calchas announced that the wrath of the goddess could only be propitiated by the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia.

Calchas died of shame at Colophon in Asia Minor shortly after the Trojan War ( told in the Cyclic Nostoi and Melampodia ): the prophet Mopsus beat him in a contest of soothsaying, although Strabo placed an oracle of Calchas on Monte Gargano in Magna Graecia.

In Seneca's version of The Trojan Women, the prophet Calchas declares that Astyanax must be thrown from the walls if the Greek fleet is to be allowed favorable winds ( 365 – 70 ), but once led to the tower, the child himself leaps off the walls ( 1100 – 3 ).

* Calchas, a Trojan prophet who joins the Greeks

Calchas, the Greek prophet, prophesies that the city of Troy will not fall unless the Greeks recover the arrows of Heracles from the hero Philoctetes, who was left behind on Lemnos when he was bit by a poisonous snake.

Other Greeks, including the prophet Calchas, go by land to Kolophon, where Calchas dies and is buried.

The assembled leaders offer ill-omened sacrifice at Aulis, where the prophet Calchas warns the Greeks that the war will last ten years.

Dubbed " Abu Hashim ", Nami was considered " gentle in manner " by his colleagues, and reported that he had a dream in which he rode a mare along with Muhammad, and that the prophet told him to dismount and fight his enemies to liberate his land.

The people of Israel then told Samuel the prophet that they needed to be governed by a permanent king, and Samuel appointed Saul to be their King.

Once King David was established, he told the prophet Nathan that he would like to build a permanent temple, and as a reward for his actions, God promised David that he would allow his son, Solomon, to build the first permanent temple and the throne would never depart from his children.

Afterwards he was visited by either a Bath Kol ( Heavenly voice ) or the prophet Elijah, who told him that he would be rewarded with the birth of a noble son " who would illuminate the world with his Torah knowledge.

Although there is an indication in Targum Lamentations that " Zechariah son of Iddo " was killed in the Temple ,< ref > Targum on Lam 2: 20: " Is it right to kill priest and prophet in the Temple of the Lord, as when you killed Zechariah son of Iddo, the High Priest and faithful prophet in the Temple of the Lord on the Day of Atonement because he told you not to do evil before the Lord?

" And it is told of Abu Bakr, Muhammad's first disciple, father-in-law, and successor, that, when the prophet was dead, he went into the latter's tent, uncovered his face, and kissed him.

Zoroaster, the founder and first prophet of that religion, who is said to have told his people how to recognize the Saviour at the right moment, is identified with Balaam.

For to obey such a commandment would have been contrary to the nature of man, who generally cleaves to that to which he is used ; it would in those days have made the same impression as a prophet would make at present 12th Century if he called us to the service of God and told us in His name, that we should not pray to God nor fast, nor seek His help in time of trouble ; that we should serve Him in thought, and not by any action.

Five days later, Aepytus returned from the Delphic Oracle, where he had been told that Evadne ’ s child was the son of Apollo and destined to be a gifted prophet.

As it was told by the prophet Isaiah:

Some exegetes believe that Antipas ' and Herodias ' struggle with John the Baptist as told in the Gospels was some kind of a remembrance of the political and religious fight opposing the Israeli monarchs Achab and Jezebel to the prophet Elijah.

According to belief, an angel spoke to the prophet Abraham, and told him to institute the rite of the stone in the hajj at Mecca.

The reported story is told that the prophet saw Asma clothed in a thin garment, at which he proclaimed: " when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, she should cover everything but "- and he then pointed to his face and hands.

When he was told that this was the same objection voiced by the uncle of the prophet of Islam, he was shaken and decided to investigate the matter.

Each came to preach Islam at different times in history and some, including Jesus, told of the coming of the final prophet and messenger of God, who would be named Muhammad.

He further told the prophet that the people of Sheba worshiped the sun, but that the woman who ruled the kingdom was highly intelligent and powerful.

On top of that, he told people that he was a prophet sent by Imam al-Hadi to guide the Muslims, and with that declaration he also claimed that prayer, zakāt, hajj, and fasting were no longer required.

It came to pass, while Cuspius Fadus was procurator of Judea, that a certain charlatan, whose name was Theudas, persuaded a great part of the people to take their effects with them, and follow him to the Jordan river ; for he told them he was a prophet, and that he would, by his own command, divide the river, and afford them an easy passage over it.

Whilst covering the life of the prophet they also told of the battles and events of early Islam and have numerous digressions on older biblical traditions.

The most commonly told story is how in the 7th century, Al-Buraq carried the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and back during the Isra and Mi ' raj or " Night Journey ", which is the title of one of the chapters ( sura ), Al-Isra, of the Qur ' an.

For to obey such a commandment would have been contrary to the nature of man, who generally cleaves to that to which he is used ; it would in those days have made the same impression as a prophet would make at present 12th Century if he called us to the service of God and told us in His name, that we should not pray to God nor fast, nor seek His help in time of trouble ; that we should serve Him in thought, and not by any action.