1 Kings 22:21 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²¹ Then a 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, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.

1 Kings 22:22

And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go forth and do so.’

1 Kings 22:23

Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has spoken evil concerning you.”

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, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; 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 also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

Revelation 16:14

for they 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.