Therefore you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves with the children of strangers.
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover from this disease.
And the LORD rejected all the people of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he did not keep, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it;
And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.
Rejoice not, all Philistia, because the rod of him that struck you is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
And when they shall say to you, Seek after those who have familiar spirits, and wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek after their God? for the living should they go to the dead?
And the soul that turns after those who have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD’S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all those who are clothed with strange apparel.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse for me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? tell us with what we shall send it to its place.