Isaiah 8:19

Modern English Version

When they say to you, “Seek after the mediums and the wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek after their God? Should they consult the dead for the living?

Cross References

Genesis 41:24

And the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. So I told this to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

2 Kings 1:3

But the 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 not a God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron?’

2 Kings 21:6

He made his son pass through the fire, was conjuring and seeking omens, and dealt with mediums and soothsayers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

2 Kings 23:24

Moreover, Josiah disposed of the mediums, the soothsayers, the teraphim, the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he established the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 10:13

So Saul died for his unfaithful deeds against the Lord, because he did not keep the word of the Lord, and because he consulted a medium, seeking guidance.

2 Chronicles 33:6

He even made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom; and he had conjurers, and practitioners of divination and sorcery, and necromancers, and mediums. So he did a great amount of evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that God was provoked.

Psalm 106:28

They joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

Isaiah 19:3

The spirit of Egypt shall be discouraged in their midst, and I will destroy their counsel; then they shall seek for the idols and for the charmers and for the mediums and the sorcerers.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead shall not live; the departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore, You have punished and destroyed them and made all remembrance of them to perish.

Isaiah 29:4

You shall be brought down, and shall speak from the ground, and from the dust where you are prostrate your speech shall come; your voice shall also be as that of a ghost from the ground; and your speech shall whisper from the dust.

Isaiah 30:2

they walk down to Egypt and have not asked from My mouth, to strengthen themselves in the safety of Pharaoh and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

Isaiah 45:11

Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel and his maker: Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons, and you shall commit to Me the work of My hands.

Isaiah 47:12

Stand fast now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries in which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you shall be able to profit, perhaps you may cause trembling.

Isaiah 47:13

You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from these things that shall come upon you.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and an everlasting King. At His wrath the earth trembles, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

Jeremiah 27:9

Therefore do not listen to your prophets, or to your diviners, or to your dreamers, or to your enchanters, or to your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon.”

Leviticus 19:31

Do not turn to spirits through mediums or necromancers. Do not seek after them to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:6

The person who turns to spirits through mediums and necromancers in order to whore after them, I will even set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

Micah 5:12

then I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you will no longer have fortune-tellers.

Acts 16:16

On one occasion, as we went to the place of prayer, a servant girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

Deuteronomy 18:10

There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or uses witchcraft, or an interpreter of omens, or a sorcerer,

Deuteronomy 18:11

or one who casts spells, or a spiritualist, or an occultist, or a necromancer.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves declare how we were received by you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

2 Peter 2:1

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

1 Samuel 28:11

Then said the woman, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” And he said, “Bring up Samuel for me.”

1 Samuel 28:16

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

1 Samuel 28:7

Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek 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 woman who is a medium at En-dor.”

1 Samuel 28:8

So Saul disguised himself, put on other clothes, and he went with two of his men. And they came to the woman by night and he said, “Please divine for me by a spirit, and bring up for me whom I will name to you.”