NECROMANCY

Passages on this topic · 17

• Deuteronomy 18:11

  or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

• Deuteronomy 26:14

  I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

• 1 Samuel 28:7

  Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.” His servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor.”

• 1 Samuel 28:8

  Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you.”

• 1 Samuel 28:9

  The woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?”

• 1 Samuel 28:10

  Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, “As Yahweh lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing.”

• 1 Samuel 28:11

  Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up to you?” He said, “Bring Samuel up for me.”

• 1 Samuel 28:12

  When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!”

• 1 Samuel 28:13

  The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What do you see?” The woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”

• 1 Samuel 28:14

  He said to her, “What does he look like?” She said, “An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe.” Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed respect.

• 1 Samuel 28:15

  Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”

• 1 Samuel 28:16

  Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?

• 1 Samuel 28:17

  Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.

• 1 Samuel 28:18

  Because you didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.

• 1 Samuel 28:19

  Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”

• Isaiah 8:19

  When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

• Isaiah 29:4

  You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.