and they made their sons and daughters pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in Adonai’s eyes, to provoke Him.
Leviticus 19:31 - Tree of Life Version “Do not turn to those who are mediums or to soothsayers. Do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am Adonai your God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Turn not to those [mediums] who have familiar spirits or to wizards; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. American Standard Version (1901) Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor unto the wizards; seek them not out, to be defiled by them: I am Jehovah your God. Common English Bible Do not resort to dead spirits or inquire of spirits of divination—you will be made unclean by them; I am the LORD your God. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not turn aside to astrologers, nor consult with soothsayers, so as to be polluted through them. I am the Lord your God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Go not aside after wizards: neither ask any thing of soothsayers, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. |
and they made their sons and daughters pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in Adonai’s eyes, to provoke Him.
He also made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in Adonai’s eyes to provoke Him.
Moreover, Josiah got rid of the necromancers and the mediums, the teraphim and the idols, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem—in order to confirm the words of the Torah that were written in the scroll that Hilkiah the kohen found in the House of Adonai.
So Saul died because of his unfaithful acts that he committed against the word of Adonai, which he did not keep, and he even consulted a medium for guidance
Furthermore, he made his children pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom and practiced witchcraft, divination and sorcery, and consulted ghosts and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of Adonai, provoking Him to anger.
You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground. From the dust where you are prostrate your speech will come. Your voice will be like a ghost out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
You are weary of your consultations. So many! So let the astrologers, star-gazers, predicting by new moons, stand up and save you from what will come upon you.
When they say to you: “Consult the mediums and necromancers who chirp and mutter,” shouldn’t a people seek their God? Should a people consult the dead on behalf of the living?
“You are not to eat any meat with the blood still in it, nor are you to use enchantments, or practice sorcery.
“Each one of you is to respect his mother and his father, and keep My Shabbatot. I am Adonai your God.
“A man or a woman who is a medium or is a soothsayer should surely be put to death. They should stone them with rocks, and their blood should be on them.’”
And they kept paying attention to him, because for a long time he had astonished them with his magical arts.
idolatry, witchcraft, hostility, strife, jealousy, rage, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,
But for the cowardly and faithless and detestable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars—their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented him and buried him in Ramah, his hometown. Saul had removed from the land those who were mediums and spiritists.