said: I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And He said: Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also; go forth and do so.” So the Lord put a lying spirit in the mouth of all Ahab’s prophets; and he went up to Ramoth-Gilead, and was wounded between the joints of his harness, and was brought back a dead man, and the dogs licked up his blood. (1 Kings 22:19–38.) A spirit of hell was allowed to go forth to inflame and deceive him to his ruin. And so it is in this