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18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
19 Then Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: aI saw the Lord sitting on His throne, band all the host of heaven standing by, on His right hand and on His left.  
20 And the Lord said, ‘Who will persuade Ahab to go up, that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ So one spoke in this manner, and another spoke in that manner.
21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will persuade him.’
22 The Lord said to him, ‘In what way?’ So he said, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And the Lord said, a‘You shall persuade him, and also prevail. Go out and do so.’  
23 aTherefore look! The Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the Lord has declared disaster against you.”  
24 Now Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near and astruck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, b“Which way did the spirit from the Lord go from me to speak to you?”  
25 And Micaiah said, “Indeed, you shall see on that day when you go into an ainner chamber to hide!”  
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That was not happy news to Ahab. We do not need to go any further. We just need to see this little view into the councils of heaven where God had drawn into His government spirit beings, even enemies of His, to counsel Him on how some portion of His governance of the earth would be handled.

God then gave the assignment to a spirit being who went out and convinced the false prophets that this was the way to go. Now, did the false prophets see a ghost? Did something cause them to have a dream? There is no indication of that. The indication is to me (at least because so many of them were involved—four hundred) that the spirit somehow stirred up the spirit that was in the men and put the thoughts into their minds and made them think it was theirs. When they all came up with the same answer, surely it must have been right. But alas, they were unanimously wrong, being led by a lying spirit.

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