Prophet’s Prediction Leads to King’s Death

Approximately 2,600 years ago in China, a prophet predicted that an ill king named Duke Jing of Jin would not live to eat the next harvest. When the new harvest was ready, the king remembered the prophecy as he was about to eat. He killed the seer, experienced a stomachache before eating, went to the restroom, fell in, and died.

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