Jacob 7:20 And it came to pass that when he had said these words he could say no more, and he gave up the ghost. Sherem died after requesting a sign from God that Jacob was correct in his belief in Christ. The sign was that he fell down, didn't die for many days while he lay unconscious, and then woke up long enough to say he was wrong and die. (The scripture says he "gave up the ghost" but really, it was taken from him. Nobody bug Christ really has the power to choose whether they live or die but that's completely beside the point.)
In Jeremiah, when a prophet named Hananiah was preaching falsely to the people, the Lord sent Jeremiah to say, you're going to die for lying to the people in the name of the Lord. 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The Lord hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the Lord. 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. If the lord was in the business of killing people who say things in his name without permission, why are there so many churches on the earth? What makes the determination of when it's a capital crime and when to let it go? In the circumstance with Hananiah, the people believed him to be a literal prophet of God, invested with authority to speak in the name of the Lord. But that wasn't true in Sherem's case. He wasn't the prophet, and everyone knew it.
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