And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, so that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ Then one said one thing, and another said another,
1 Kings 22:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 until a certain spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then there came forth a spirit [of whom I am about to tell] and stood before the Lord and said, I will entice him. American Standard Version (1901) And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah, and said, I will entice him. Common English Bible until one particular spirit approached the LORD and said, ‘I’ll persuade him.’ ‘How?’ the LORD asked. Catholic Public Domain Version But then a spirit went out and stood before the Lord. And he said, 'I will mislead him.' And the Lord said to him, 'By what means?' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said: I will deceive him. And the Lord said to him: By what means? |
And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, so that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ Then one said one thing, and another said another,
‘How?’ the Lord asked him. He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then the Lord said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do it.’
So you see, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has decreed disaster for you.”
He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then the Lord said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do it.’
One day the heavenly beings came to present themselves before the Lord, and the accuser also came among them to present himself before the Lord.
These are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.