21 ‘“I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,” he said.

‘“You will succeed in enticing him,” said the Lord. “Go and do it.”

22 ‘So now the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you.’

23 Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. ‘Which way did the spirit from[a] the Lord go when he went from me to speak to you?’ he asked.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 18:23 Or Spirit of