1st Samuel Chapter 28 verse 8 Holy Bible
And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Divine unto me, I pray thee, by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomsoever I shall name unto thee.
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So Saul, putting on other clothing, so that he might not be seen to be the king, took two men with him and went to the woman by night; and he said, Now, with the help of the spirit which you have, make the person whose name I will give you come up.
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And Saul disguised himself, and put on other garments, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and he said, I pray thee, divine to me by the spirit of Python, and bring me [him] up whom I shall name to thee.
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And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
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And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring up for me whom I shall name to thee.
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Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whoever I shall name to you.
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And Saul disguiseth himself and putteth on other garments, and goeth, he and two of the men with him, and they come in unto the woman by night, and he saith, `Divine, I pray thee, to me by the familiar spirit, and cause to come up to me him whom I say unto thee.'
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) And Saul disguised himself.--The disguise and the time chosen for the expedition served a double purpose. The king would, he thought, be unknown in the darkness and disguise when he came to the witch's dwelling, and there was, too, a far greater probability of his escaping his Philistine foes, whose army lay between him and the village of En-dor.Divine unto me by the familiar spirit.--Literally, divine unto me by the ob. Keil's remark is interesting: "Prophesying by the ob was probably performed by calling up a departed spirit from Sheol, and obtaining prophecies--i.e., disclosures--concerning one's own fate through the medium of such a spirit." No other commentator touches on the ob here, and Keil leaves it in doubt as to whether he considered the ob was some special spirit devoted to the service of the mistress of the ob, or the spirit or soul of one already dead, who, through some occult power, was to be brought back again for a season to this earth. As far as we can judge of these old mysteries, the sorcerer or sorceress possessed, or was supposed to possess, a "familiar." Through the aid of this "familiar," the departed spirit was compelled or induced to re-visit this world, and to submit to certain questioning. The Hebrew rendered "divine unto me" is of Syriac origin, like most of those words describing illicit vaticinations.--Speaker's Commentary. This miserable power, if it did exist, was one of the things the Israelites learned from the original inhabitants of Canaan. These "black" arts, as they have been called, have, in all ages, in every degree of civilisation, always had an extraordinary fascination for men. It is well known that even in our own "cultured age" similar pretensions are put forth, and the dead are still invoked, summoned, and questioned, as they were in the half-barbarous age when Saul and his companions, in their desperate strait, sought the witch of En-dor.And bring me him up.--The popular idea has always been that Sheol, the place of departed spirits, is somewhere beneath the ground or earth on which we live, just as heaven, the abode of God and His holy angels, is in a region above the earth. St. Paul speaks in this popular language (Ephesians 4:9), where he refers to the lower parts of the earth as the abode of departed spirits. Hence we have here, "bring me him up." The Christian Church, Bishop Wordsworth reminds us, has adopted this language into her creeds, where she says that Christ in His human soul descended into hell (Hades). Keil well remarks on this human idea of what is "above" and "below": "With our modes of thought, which are so bound up with time and space, it is impossible to represent to ourselves in any other way the difference and contrast between blessedness with God and shade-life in death."Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewSo Saulשָׁא֗וּל (šā·’ūl)Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelitesdisguised himselfוַיִּתְחַפֵּ֣שׂ (way·yiṯ·ḥap·pêś)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 2664: To seek, to conceal oneself, maskby putting onוַיִּלְבַּשׁ֙ (way·yil·baš)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 3847: Wrap around, to put on a, garment, clothedifferentאֲחֵרִ֔ים (’ă·ḥê·rîm)Adjective - masculine pluralStrong's 312: Hinder, next, otherclothes,בְּגָדִ֣ים (bə·ḡā·ḏîm)Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillageand he set outוַיֵּ֣לֶךְ (way·yê·leḵ)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 1980: To go, come, walkwithעִמּ֔וֹ (‘im·mōw)Preposition | third person masculine singularStrong's 5973: With, equally withtwoוּשְׁנֵ֤י (ū·šə·nê)Conjunctive waw | Number - mdcStrong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)of his men.אֲנָשִׁים֙ (’ă·nā·šîm)Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 582: Man, mankindThey cameוַיָּבֹ֥אוּ (way·yā·ḇō·’ū)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine pluralStrong's 935: To come in, come, go in, gotoאֶל־ (’el-)PrepositionStrong's 413: Near, with, among, tothe womanהָאִשָּׁ֖ה (hā·’iš·šāh)Article | Noun - feminine singularStrong's 802: Woman, wife, femaleat night,לָ֑יְלָה (lā·yə·lāh)Noun - masculine singularStrong's 3915: A twist, night, adversityand Saul said,וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (way·yō·mer)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 559: To utter, say“Consultקָֽסֳמִי־ (qā·so·mî-)Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singularStrong's 7080: To distribute, determine by lot, magical scroll, to divinea spirit for me.בָּא֔וֹב (bā·’ō·wḇ)Preposition, Article | Noun - masculine singularStrong's 178: A bottle (made from animal skin), a necromancerBring upוְהַ֣עֲלִי (wə·ha·‘ă·lî)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - feminine singularStrong's 5927: To ascend, in, activelyfor meלִ֔י (lî)Preposition | first person common singularStrong's Hebrew the oneאֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)Pronoun - relativeStrong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order thatI name.?אֹמַ֖ר (’ō·mar)Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singularStrong's 559: To utter, sayJump to PreviousClothes Clothing Conjure Consult Disguised Divine Night Please Putting Raiment Saul Spirit Whomever Whomsoever
