Then Saul said to his servants, (A)“Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at (B)En-dor.”

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Paul and Silas in Prison

16 As we were going to (A)the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had (B)a spirit of (C)divination and (D)brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.

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10 who were destroyed at (A)En-dor,
    who became (B)dung for the ground.

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13 So Saul died (A)for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also (B)consulted a medium, seeking guidance.

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11 Also in Issachar and in Asher (A)Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of (B)Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of (C)Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of (D)Megiddo and its villages; (E)the third is Naphath.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 17:11 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

For still (A)the vision awaits its appointed time;
    it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, (B)wait for it;
    (C)it will surely come; it will not delay.

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19 And when they say to you, “Inquire of the (A)mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of (B)the dead on behalf of the living? 20 (C)To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no (D)dawn.

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31 (A)“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

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25 The Lord is good to those who (A)wait for him,
    to the soul who seeks him.
26 (B)It is good that one should wait quietly
    for the salvation of the Lord.

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and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
    and I will confound[a] their (A)counsel;
and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers,
    and (B)the mediums and the necromancers;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:3 Or I will swallow up

33 And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! (A)Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

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Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of (A)Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, (B)whether I shall recover from this sickness.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah (C)the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of (D)Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?

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Now (A)Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him (B)in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put (C)the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.

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11 or a charmer or (A)a medium or a necromancer or (B)one who inquires of the dead,

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