“The trial first focused on the charge of false prophecy. The priests challenged Abinadi to interpret Isaiah 52:7–10. They presumably thought this text showed that God had spoken ‘comfort’ to their own people. … They contended that whereas Isaiah extolled those who brought ‘good tidings,’ Abinadi spoke ill. Under such interpretation, Abinadi’s curses conflicted with Isaiah and were held by the priests to be false and unlawful.
“Abinadi rebutted the priests in several ways. He accused them of misunderstanding and disobeying the law. He extracted from them an admission that salvation requires obedience to the law and then rehearsed to them the Ten Commandments” (Ludlow, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 1:6) .