1 Samuel 28:9

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:13

On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life[1] (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof."

2 Kings 5:7

And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me."

Leviticus 19:31

"Do not turn to mediums or wizards;[3] do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.

1 Samuel 28:10

But Saul swore to her by the LORD, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing."

1 Samuel 28:3

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 necromancers out of the land.