Then Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, (A)that I may go to her and inquire of her.”

And his servants said to him, “In fact, there is a woman who is a medium at En Dor.”

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11 And in Issachar and in Asher, (A)Manasseh had (B)Beth Shean and its towns, Ibleam and its towns, the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, the inhabitants of En Dor and its towns, the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns—three hilly regions.

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Paul and Silas Imprisoned

16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl (A)possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters (B)much profit by fortune-telling.

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10 Who perished at En Dor,
(A)Who became as refuse on the earth.

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13 So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had [a]committed against the Lord, (A)because he did not keep the word of the Lord, and also because (B)he consulted a medium for guidance.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 10:13 Lit. transgressed

For (A)the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will (B)not lie.
Though it tarries, (C)wait for it;
Because it will (D)surely come,
It will not tarry.

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19 And when they say to you, (A)“Seek those who are mediums and wizards, (B)who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they (C)seek the dead on behalf of the living? 20 (D)To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because (E)there[a] is no light in them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:20 Or they have no dawn

31 ‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after (A)them, to be defiled 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 It is good that one should (B)hope (C)and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.

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The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst;
I will destroy their counsel,
And they will (A)consult the idols and the charmers,
The mediums and the sorcerers.

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33 And while he was still talking with them, there was the messenger, coming down to him; and then the king said, “Surely this calamity is from the Lord; (A)why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

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Now (A)Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of (B)Baal-Zebub,[a] the god of (C)Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.” But the [b]angel of the Lord said to Elijah 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 Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 1:2 Lit. Lord of Flies
  2. 2 Kings 1:3 Or Angel

Saul Consults a Medium(A)

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

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11 (A)or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or (B)one who calls up the dead.

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