In mandating that a false prophets should be put to death, some have suggested that God was just being intolerable, envious or insecure. This is not the case at all.

New International Version But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.” New Living …

The False Prophet - “If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you, and that sign or wonder he has promised you comes about, but he says, ‘Let us …