What’s the difference between false prophecy and wrongly interpreted prophecy? Both can be very damaging and both were to the people of Israel. The first are words not given by God and the second are words God spoke, but people understood or applied them differently than God intended. Israel greatly misinterpreted this prophecy and it hurt them. Since we have spent time looking at how to detect false prophecy in this study, we will look mostly at how to know misinterpreted prophecy in this one.