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1 Chronicles 10:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Saul died because he was unfaithful and disobeyed the LORD. He even asked advice from a woman who talked to spirits of the dead,

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and even set up the pole for Asherah there. Manasseh practised magic and witchcraft; he asked fortune-tellers for advice and sacrificed his own son. He did many sinful things and made the LORD very angry. Years ago the LORD had told David and his son Solomon: Jerusalem is the place I prefer above all others in Israel. It belongs to me, and there I will be worshipped for ever.

Don't disappoint any of your worshippers, but disappoint all deceitful liars.

Powerful LORD God, all who stay far from you will be lost, and you will destroy those who are unfaithful.

Death is the punishment for witchcraft.

if you do wrong and can never be trusted, you will be rooted out.

“Egypt will be discouraged when I confuse their plans. They will try to get advice from their idols, from the spirits of the dead, and from fortune-tellers.

Someone may say to you, “Go to the fortune-tellers who make soft chirping sounds or ask the spirits of the dead. After all, a nation ought to be able to ask its own gods

Don't make yourselves disgusting to me by going to people who claim they can talk to the dead.

I will be your enemy if you go to someone who claims to speak with the dead, and I will destroy you from among my people.

“Saul has stopped obeying me, and I'm sorry that I made him king.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out in prayer to the LORD all night.

“When the Israelites were on their way out of Egypt, the nation of Amalek attacked them. I am the LORD All-Powerful, and now I am going to make Amalek pay!

Rebelling against God or disobeying him because you are proud is just as bad as worshipping idols or asking them for advice. You refused to do what God told you, so God has decided that you can't be king.”

So he asked the LORD what to do. But the LORD would not answer, either in a dream or by a priest or a prophet.




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