Question: What prophetic book of the King James Version spawned the tradition that Satan was a fallen angel named Lucifer?
Answer: Isaiah. (Isaiah 14:12)
Comments: The association between the name Lucifer and Satan stems from the King James Version's translation of Isaiah 14:3-20. The passage speaks of a figure fallen from heaven who is given the name of "Day Star" or "Morning Star", which in Latin is Lucifer. The King James Version and New King James Version utilize Lucifier in conncetion with this figure while most modern translations do not (AMP, ASV, CEV, ESV, Message, NASB, NIV, NLT, NRSV, RSV).
In the Vulgate (the Latin translation of the Bible), the same Latin word is used of the morning star in II Peter 1:19 with no relation to Satan.
"How you have fallen from heaven,
O star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!" (Isaiah 14:12, NASB)
The name "Lucifer" as used for Satan was popularized in literature in works such as Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)'s Inferno and John Milton (1608-1674)'s Paradise Lost.
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