1 Samuel 28:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the wizards out of the land.

Cross References

Exodus 22:17

If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equivalent to the marriage present for virgins.

Exodus 22:18

“You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

Leviticus 19:31

“Do not turn to mediums or wizards; 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 wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.”

Leviticus 20:6

“If a person turns to mediums and wizards, playing the harlot after them, I will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as 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, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose 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, and there also he administered justice to Israel. And he built there an altar to the Lord.