1 Samuel 28:9

Plain English Version

But the woman said, “I can’t do that. You know, Saul hunted the clever men and women away from Israel. You are making trouble for me. If I do this for you, Saul might send people to kill me dead.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:13

If I kill him, his father will hear about it straight away. He knows everything, and he will kill me dead too. And I reckon you might not help me either. You might say to him, ‘It’s nothing to do with me.’ ”

1 Samuel 28:10

Saul answered, “God is listening, so I tell you straight. Nobody can kill you or do payback to you.”

1 Samuel 28:3

A long time before this, Saul stopped the clever men and women from talking to the spirits of dead people, and he hunted them away from Israel. You see, that is in God’s law. When the old man Samuel died, the Israel mob all cried for him, and they buried him in his own town, called Ramah.