1 Kings 22:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him.

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King 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?

1 Kings 22:21 Cross References

1 Kings 22:20

And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner; and another said on that manner.

1 Kings 22:22

And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also: go forth, and do so.

1 Kings 22:23

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

2 Chronicles 18:21

And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also: go forth, and do so.

Job 2:1

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

Revelation 16:14

for they are spirits of devils, working signs; which go forth unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.