1 Kings 22:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ until a certain spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ 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)

²¹ And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah, and said, I will entice him.

Common English Bible

²¹ until one particular spirit approached the LORD and said, ‘I’ll persuade him.’ ‘How?’ the LORD asked.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ 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

²¹ 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 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 22:22

‘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.’

1 Kings 22:23

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.”

2 Chronicles 18:21

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.’

Job 2:1

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.

Revelation 16:14

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.