Divination

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Samuel 28:11 OT

  Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up to you?” He said, “Bring Samuel up for me.”

• 1 Samuel 28:12 OT

  When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!”

• Ezekiel 21:21 OT

  For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.

• Ezekiel 21:22 OT

  In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.

• Genesis 44:2 OT

  Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, with his grain money.” He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

• Genesis 44:5 OT

  Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’ ”

• Hosea 4:12 OT

  My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

• Jeremiah 29:8 OT

  For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

• Zechariah 10:2 OT

  For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

• 2 Chronicles 33:5 OT

  He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 33:6 OT

  He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to…

• Acts 19:19 NT

  Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

• Numbers 22:7 OT

  The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

• Acts 16:16 NT

  As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

• Daniel 2:12 OT

  Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

• Acts 8:9 NT

  But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

• Daniel 2:2 OT

  Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

• Daniel 4:6 OT

  Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

• Isaiah 8:19 OT

  When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

• Ezekiel 13:7 OT

  Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”

• Isaiah 44:25 OT

  who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

• Numbers 23:23 OT

  Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

• Leviticus 19:26 OT

  “ ‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

• Leviticus 19:31 OT

  “ ‘Don’t turn to those who are mediums, nor to the wizards. Don’t seek them out, to be defiled by them. I am Yahweh your God.