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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他回答：‘我要出去，在亞哈所有先知的口中，作說謊的靈。’耶和華說：‘你可以去引誘他，你也必能成功，你去這樣行吧！’

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 问 他 说 ： 你 用 何 法 呢 ？ 他 说 ： 我 去 ， 要 在 他 众 先 知 口 中 作 谎 言 的 灵 。 耶 和 华 说 ： 这 样 ， 你 必 能 引 诱 他 ， 你 去 如 此 行 罢 ！

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ When Micaiah came to Ahab, the king asked him, "Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth in Gilead or not?" Micaiah answered, "Attack and win! The Lord will hand them over to you." ¹⁶ But Ahab said to Micaiah, "How many times do I have to tell you to speak only the truth to me in the name of the Lord ?" ¹⁷ So Micaiah answered, "I saw the army of Israel scattered over the hills like sheep without a shepherd. The Lord said, ‘They have no leaders. They should go home and not fight.'" ¹⁸ Then Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I told you! He never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad." ¹⁹ But Micaiah said, "Hear the message from the Lord : I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with his heavenly army standing near him on his right and on his left. ²⁰ The Lord said, ‘Who will trick Ahab into attacking Ramoth in Gilead where he will be killed?' "Some said one thing; some said another. ²¹ Then one spirit came and stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will trick him.' ²² "The Lord asked, ‘How will you do it?' "The spirit answered, ‘I will go to Ahab's prophets and make them tell lies.' "So the Lord said, ‘You will succeed in tricking him. Go and do it.'" ²³ Micaiah said, "Ahab, the Lord has made your prophets lie to you, and the Lord has decided that disaster should come to you." ²⁴ Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up to Micaiah and slapped him in the face. Zedekiah said, "Has the Lord 's spirit left me to speak through you?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a lying spirit: Job 1:8-11, Job 2:4-6, John 8:44, Acts 5:3, Acts 5:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 John 4:6, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 12:10, Revelation 13:14, Revelation 16:13, Revelation 16:14, Revelation 20:3, Revelation 20:7, Revelation 20:10

Thou shalt: 1 Kings 22:20, Judges 9:23, Job 12:16, Psalms 109:17, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, Revelation 17:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:21 - I will harden 1 Samuel 16:14 - evil spirit 1 Samuel 26:19 - stirred 1 Kings 22:6 - Go up 2 Kings 3:13 - the prophets 2 Chronicles 18:21 - General 2 Chronicles 32:15 - persuade Nehemiah 6:14 - on the prophetess Job 2:7 - So went Psalms 78:49 - by sending Psalms 141:4 - Incline not Proverbs 19:27 - General Isaiah 9:15 - the prophet Isaiah 44:25 - frustrateth Jeremiah 27:14 - they Daniel 2:9 - for Hosea 9:8 - but Zechariah 13:2 - cause Matthew 8:32 - Go Mark 5:13 - gave Luke 8:32 - he suffered Acts 13:6 - a false 2 Corinthians 4:4 - blinded 1 Timothy 4:2 - lies 2 Timothy 3:8 - resist

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto him, wherewith?.... What way and method did he propose, to persuade Ahab to go up to Ramoth? the Lord is introduced in this visionary narrative as asking this question, not as ignorant of the scheme of the evil spirit, but in order to bring it out, and lead on to the following account:

and he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets; put them on encouraging Ahab to go up, and promising him success, as he had in former battles with the king of Syria, and which might both encourage them to give forth such a prediction, and him to believe it to be true; this proposal was quite agreeable to the character of the devil, as the father of lies:

and he said, thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also; not only make use of this artifice to persuade, but succeed also; the Lord knew that what he should suggest to the prophets, and they should deliver to Ahab, would be agreeable to his inclination, nor would he do anything in the course of his providence to hinder its taking effect:

go forth, and do so; which was giving leave to try his skill in the art of persuasion, in which he knew he would succeed, and bring on the righteous judgment of God upon Ahab; with this compare John 13:27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The difficulties which attach to this passage are considerable. On the one hand, it is hard to suppose one of the holy Angels a “lying spirit;” on the other, hard to find Satan, or an evil spirit, included among “the host of heaven” 1 Kings 22:19 and acting as the minister of God. Still, Job 1:6; Job 2:1, lend countenance to the latter point, and 2 Thessalonians 2:11 to the former. But it may be doubted whether we ought to take literally, and seek to interpret exactly, each statement of the present narrative. Visions of the invisible world can only be a sort of parables; revelations, not of the truth as it actually is, but of so much of the truth as can be shown through such a medium. The details of a vision, therefore, cannot safely be pressed, anymore than the details of a parable. Portions of each must be accommodations to human modes of thought, and may very inadequately express the realities which they are employed to shadow forth to us.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 22:22. Go forth, and do so. — This is no more than, "God has permitted the spirit of lying to influence the whole of thy prophets; and he now, by my mouth, apprises thee of this, that thou mayest not go and fall at Ramoth-gilead." Never was a man more circumstantially and fairly warned; he had counsels from the God of truth, and counsels from the spirit of falsity; he obstinately forsook the former and followed the latter. He was shown by this parable how every thing was going on, and that all was under the control and direction of God, and that still it was possible for him to make that God his friend whom by his continual transgressions he had made his enemy; but he would not: his blood was therefore upon his own head.