1 Samuel 28:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. Saul had expelled the mediums and the wizards from the land.

Cross References

Exodus 22:17

But if her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay an amount equal to the bride-price for virgins.

Exodus 22:18

“You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live.

Leviticus 19:31

“Do not turn to mediums and spiritualists; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:27

“A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritualist shall be put to death; they shall be stoned to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.”

Leviticus 20:6

“If any turn to mediums or spiritualists, prostituting themselves to them, I will set my face against them and will cut them off from the people.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is no less a sin than divination, and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

1 Samuel 25:1

Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

1 Samuel 28:9

The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the wizards from the land. Why then are you laying a snare for my life to bring about my death?”

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would come back to Ramah, for his home was there; he administered justice there to Israel and built there an altar to the Lord.