Bad translation in 1 Kings 22:21

Bad translation in 1 Kings 22:21

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Why do all the translations I know of mistranslate 1 Kings 22:21? In Hebrew there is the expression הרוח or ha ruah or “a spirit” in the translations, and in the Hebrew there is the definite article ה in the text, the correct would be “the spirit” and not “a spirit”.

Don’t the translators want to correlate the context of God wanting to deceive the prophets using a divine attribute but an entity alien to God himself? This is an intentional adulteration, worse than several modern translations are emerging and nothing to correct this aberration.

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