²¹ Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will ^[a]entice him.’ ²² And the Lord said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and ^(A)be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You shall ^[b]entice him, and you will also prevail. Go and do so.’ ²³ Now then, behold, ^(B)the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours; and the Lord has declared disaster against you.”