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 12:6He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
• 1 Sam 14:37Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.
• Lam 2:9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
• Num 27:21He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall 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 20:1–3In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
• Jer 23:28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.
• Deut 33:8About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.
• John 9:31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
• Exod 28:30You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.
• Jas 4:3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
• Ps 74:9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
• Matt 1:20But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
• Prov 1:1–33The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
• Exod 28:20and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
• Gen 28:12–15He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
• Gen 46:2–4God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”
• Prov 27:1Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
• Job 33:14–16For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.
• 1 Chr 10:13–14So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,

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