1 Kings 22:22

Easy To Read Version

The Lord answered, ‘How will you trick King Ahab?’ The angel answered, ‘I will confuse all of Ahab’s prophets. I will tell the prophets to speak lies to King Ahab. The messages from the prophets will be lies.’ So the Lord said, ‘Good! Go and trick King Ahab. You will succeed.’”

Cross References

1 Kings 13:18

Then the old prophet said, “But I am also a prophet like you.” Then the old prophet told a lie. He said, “An angel from the Lord came to me. The angel told me to bring you to my home and allow you to eat and drink with me.”

1 Kings 22:20

The Lord said, ‘Will any of you trick King Ahab? I want him to go and fight against the army of Aram at Ramoth. Then he will be killed.’ The angels did not agree about what they should do.

1 Kings 22:21

Then one angel went to the Lord and said, ‘I will trick him!’

2 Kings 3:13

Elisha said to the king of Israel (Jehoram), “What do you want from me? Go to the prophets of your father and mother!”

Job 1:12

The Lord said to Satan, “All right. Do anything you want to the things Job has. But don’t hurt his body.”

Job 12:16

God is strong and always wins.\par Winners and losers all belong to God!\par

Psalm 109:17

That evil man loved to ask for bad things\par to happen to other people.\par So let those bad things happen to him.\par That evil man never asked for good things\par to happen to people.\par So don’t let good things happen to him.\par

Isaiah 19:14

The Lord made the leaders confused. They wander and lead Egypt in the wrong ways. Everything the leaders do is wrong. They are like drunk people rolling with sickness on the ground.

Ezekiel 14:9

And if a prophet is foolish enough to give his own answer, then I will show him how foolish he is! I will use my power against him. I will destroy him and remove him from among my people, Israel.

Zechariah 13:2

The Lord All-Powerful says, “At that time, I will remove all the idols from the earth. People will not even remember their names. And I will remove the \{false\} prophets and unclean {\cf2\super [31]} spirits from the earth.

John 8:44

Your father is the devil. You belong to him. You want to do what he wants. The devil was a murderer from the beginning. He was always against the truth. There is no truth in him. He is like the lies he tells. Yes, the devil is a liar. He is the father of lies.

1 Timothy 4:1

The Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [16]} clearly says that in the later times some people will stop believing the \{true\} faith (teaching). Those people will obey spirits that tell lies. And those people will follow the teachings of demons. {\cf2\super [17]}

1 John 4:6

But we are from God. So the people who know God listen to us. But the people who are not from God don’t listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit {\cf2\super [16]} that is true and the spirit that is false.

Revelation 13:14

This second animal fools the people that live on the earth. He fools them by using the miracles that he has been given the power to do. He does these miracles to serve the first animal. The second animal ordered people to make an idol {\cf2\super [96]} to honor the first animal. This was the animal that was wounded by the sword but did not die.

Revelation 17:17

God made the ten horns want to do his purpose: They agreed to give the animal their power to rule. They will rule until the things God has said are completed.

Revelation 20:10

And Satan (the one who tricked those people) was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur with the animal and the false prophet. {\cf2\super [155]} There they will be tortured (punished) day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 20:3

The angel threw the snake into the bottomless pit and closed it. The angel locked it over the snake. The angel did this so that the snake could not trick the people of the earth until the 1,000 years were ended. After 1,000 years the snake must be made free for a short time.

Revelation 20:7

When the 1,000 years are ended, Satan (the devil) will be made free from his prison \{in the bottomless pit\}.

1 Samuel 16:14

The Lord’s Spirit left Saul. Then the Lord sent a bad spirit to Saul. It caused him much trouble.

1 Samuel 18:10

The next day, a bad spirit from God took control of Saul. Saul became wild [166] in his house. David played the harp like he usually did.

1 Samuel 19:9

But a bad spirit from the Lord came on Saul. Saul was sitting in his house. Saul had his spear in his hand. David was playing the harp.