...OK. But "act like a prophet" sounds like deliberate deception on behalf of the "prophet", but this is not necessarily true of later false prophets and almost certainly not of Saul. More likely they genuinely believed they were passing on a message from a spirit, but in the view of those who opposed them that spirit was an evil or lying spirit and the message was not from God - especially when that message was a spear tip speeding towards David. But in the Hebrew Bible even the lying spirits are from God, see also 1 Kings 22:21-23.
HH: I agree with you. I never said there was something inherently wrong implied by the Hithpael use of NB). Remember, I said: "There is some legitimate prophecy in the list below, but there is also a good deal of false prophecy, which sometimes involves raving type activities."
HH: All that you wrote seems good to me. Yet if one is possessed by an evil spirit, he is not prophesying in the normal sense. So "rave" or "act like a prophet" might be the way to translate. I said that the Hithpael can suggest: "He may present himself as something either truthfully or not truthfully." Specifically Waltke and O'Connor said that one esteems or presents "oneself in a state, sometimes without regard to the question of truthfulness."
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