1 Samuel 28:9
<03772> [how he hath.]
trapping <05367> [wherefore.]
Exodus 22:18
Leviticus 19:31
Leviticus 20:6
spirits <0178> [familiar.]
prostitution <02181> [go.]
cut ... off <03772> [cut him.]
In the days of Moses, superstition was almost the {sensus communis} of the human race, which then made severe punishment necessary: by means of the Christian dispensation such errors are now exploded, the cultivation of philosophy and natural history having harmonised and contributed their feebler share of light, so that we no longer have to deplore mischiefs occasioned by the silly curiosity attempting to unfold future events.
Leviticus 20:27
spirit <0178> [a familiar.]
blood <01818> [their blood.]
Deuteronomy 18:10-11
son <01121> [maketh.]
or ......... divination .... reader <07081 07080> [that useth divination.]
The precise import of the terms here used to express these unhallowed practices cannot be clearly ascertained: he that useth divination, {kosaim, kesamim,} seems a general term for the various species after specified; observer of times, {meonain,} one who pretends to foretell by the clouds, planets, etc.; enchanter {menachesh,} a diviner, either by means of serpents, or by inspecting the entrails of beasts, the flight of birds, etc.; a witch, {mecashsheph,} one who used magical fumigations, etc.; a charmer, {chover chaver,} one who uses spells, or a peculiar conjunction of words, or tying knots, etc.; a consulter with familiar spirits, {shoel ov,} a pythoness; a wizard, {yidoni,} a cunning man; necromancer, {doresh el hammaithim} one who seeks enquiries of the dead.
necromancer <01875> [or a necromancer.]
Acts 16:16-19
we <2257> [as.]
who had <2192> [possessed.]
enabled ... to foretell the future by supernatural means <4436> [divination. or, Python. which.]
She ........... These <3778> [These.]
servants <1401> [the servants.]
Most High <5310> [the most.]
way <3598> [the way.]
became greatly annoyed <1278> [being.]
I command <3853> [I command.]
hope <1680> [the hope.]
seized <1949> [they.]
marketplace <58> [market-place. or, court.]
