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.’

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.