And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
Samuel
1 Samuel 25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and …
Isaiah 57:1,2 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful …
put away
1 Samuel 28:9 And the woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how …
Exodus 22:18 You shall not suffer a witch to live.
Leviticus 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, …
Leviticus 20:6,27 And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and …
Deuteronomy 18:10,11 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …
Acts 16:16-19 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed …
And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
he was afraid
Job 15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
Job 18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Psalm 48:5,6 They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hurried away…
Psalm 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly …
Proverbs 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come on him: but the desire of the …
Isaiah 7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate …
Isaiah 21:3,4 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold on …
Isaiah 57:20,21 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose …
Daniel 5:6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled …
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
enquired
1 Samuel 14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? …
1 Chronicles 10:14 And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the …
Proverbs 1:27,28 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as …
Lamentations 2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her …
Ezekiel 20:1-3 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the …
John 9:31 Now we know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper …
James 4:3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume …
by dreams
Genesis 28:12-15 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the …
Genesis 46:2-4 And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, …
Numbers 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, …
Job 33:14-16 For God speaks once, yes twice, yet man perceives it not…
Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has …
Matthew 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD …
by Urim
Exodus 28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall …
Numbers 27:21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel …
Deuteronomy 33:8 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your …
by prophets
Psalm 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there …
Lamentations 2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her …
Ezekiel 20:3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus …
Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
Seek me
2 Kings 1:2,3 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that …
2 Kings 6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down …
Isaiah 8:19,20 And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, …
Lamentations 3:25,26 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him…
Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall …
a familiar spirit
1 Samuel 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried …
Deuteronomy 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, …
Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle thereof; and I will …
Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed …
that I may
Leviticus 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, …
1 Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the …
Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, …
En-dor En-dor, a city of Manasseh, was situated in the plain of Jezreel; and Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that it was a great town in their days, four miles south from Mount Tabor, near Nain, towards Scythopolis. This agrees with Maundrell, who says, that not many miles eastward of Tabor, you see mount Hermon, at the foot of which is seated nain and Endor; and Burckhardt says, that in two hours and a half from Nazareth, towards Scythopolis or Bisan, they came to the village of Denouny, near which are the ruins of Endor; where the witch's grato is shown.
Joshua 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, …
Psalm 83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
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.
disguised
1 Kings 14:2,3 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray you, and disguise yourself, …
1 Kings 22:30,34 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, …
Job 24:13-15 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the …
Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? said …
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, …
I pray thee
Deuteronomy 18:11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, …
1 Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the …
Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, …
bring me
1 Samuel 28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me …
And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
sware
1 Samuel 14:39 For, as the LORD lives, which saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan …
1 Samuel 19:6 And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As the …
Genesis 3:5 For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes …
Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the …
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …
2 Samuel 14:11 Then said she, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, …
Matthew 26:72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.
Mark 6:23 And he swore to her, Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give it …
Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.
And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Why hast
1 Samuel 28:8,11 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, …
I am sore
Proverbs 5:11-13 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed…
Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a …
Jeremiah 2:17,18 Have you not procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken …
the Philistines
1 Samuel 28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched …
God
1 Samuel 16:13,14 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle …
1 Samuel 18:12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and …
Judges 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be on you, Samson. And he awoke out …
Psalm 51:11 Cast me not away from your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
Hosea 9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that …
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, …
answereth
1 Samuel 28:6 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither …
1 Samuel 23:2,4,9,10 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite …
prophets [heb] the hand of prophets
therefore
Luke 16:23-26 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham …
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:
to him. or, hor himself The LXX, read (), and the Vulgate {tibi}, to {thee}; which is the reading of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., as well as both the Bibles printed at Venice in
Proverbs 16:4 The LORD has made all things for himself: yes, even the wicked for …
as he spake
1 Samuel 13:13,14 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly: you have not kept …
1 Samuel 15:27-29 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold on the skirt …
me [heb] mine hand
thy neighbour
1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said to him, The LORD has rent the kingdom of Israel from …
1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle …
1 Samuel 24:20 And now, behold, I know well that you shall surely be king, and that …
Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
obeyedst
1 Samuel 13:9 And Saul said, Bring here a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. …
1 Samuel 15:9,23-26 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and …
1 Kings 20:42 And he said to him, Thus said the LORD, Because you have let go out …
1 Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the …
Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed …
hath the Lord
Psalm 50:21,22 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that …
Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
the Lord
1 Samuel 12:25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you …
1 Samuel 31:1-6 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel …
1 Kings 22:20,28 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and …
and to-morrow There is considerable diversity of opinion, both among learned and pious men, relative to this appearance to Saul. but the most probable opinion seems to be, that {Samuel himself} did actually appear to Saul, not by the power of enchantment, but by the appointment and especial mercy of God, to warn this infatuated monarch of his approaching end, that he might be reconciled with his Maker. There is not the smallest intimation of {chicanery or Satanic} influence given in the text; but on the contrary, from the plain and obvious meaning of the language employed, it is perfectly evident that it was {Samuel himself}, {Shemooel hoo.}as it is expressed in ver.
1 Samuel 28:14 And he said to her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man …
Exodus 9:18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very …
Jeremiah 28:16,17 Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, I will cast you from off the …
Daniel 5:25-28 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN…
Matthew 26:24 The Son of man goes as it is written of him…
Acts 5:5,9,10 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: …
Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
I will
1 Kings 21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the …
Proverbs 25:20 As he that takes away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar on …
compelled him
2 Kings 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great …
Luke 14:23 And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, …
Luke 24:29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward …
Acts 16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she sought us, saying, …
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that …
And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
