1 Samuel 28:6

Saul inquires of the LORD, but God gives no answer by dreams, Urim, or prophets. Heaven's silence reflects Saul's persistent disobedience.

Cross-references · 19

• Num 12:6And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
• 1 Sam 14:37And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.
• Lam 2:9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
• Num 27:21And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
• Ezek 20:1–3And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
• Jer 23:28The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
• Deut 33:8And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
• John 9:31Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
• Exod 28:30And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron’s heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
• Jas 4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
• Ps 74:9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
• Matt 1:20But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
• Prov 1:1–33The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
• Exod 28:20And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.
• Gen 28:12–15And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
• Gen 46:2–4And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
• Prov 27:1Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
• Job 33:14–16For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
• 1 Chr 10:13–14So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;

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