1 Samuel 28:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Samuel said, Why then do you ask me, seeing that the Lord has turned from you and has become your enemy?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And Samuel said, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary?

Common English Bible

¹⁶ “Why do you ask me,” Samuel said, “since the LORD has turned away from you and has become your enemy?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And Samuel said, "Why do you question me, though the Lord has withdrawn from you, and has crossed over to your rival?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And Samuel said: Why askest thou me, seeing the Lord has departed from thee, and is gone over to thy rival?

1 Samuel 28:16 Cross References

2 Kings 6:27

He said, “If the Lord does not help you, where would my help come from? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; he has killed all those in whom we took pride in the tent of daughter Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, laid in ruins its strongholds, and multiplied in daughter Judah mourning and lamentation.

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her condemnation of you.

Revelation 18:24

And in you was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slaughtered on earth.”

Judges 5:31

So perish all your enemies, O Lord! But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.” And the land had rest forty years.

1 Samuel 28:15

Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams, so I have summoned you to tell me what I should do.”

1 Samuel 28:17

The Lord has done to you just as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.