Sorcery

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Leviticus 19:26-28 OT

  “ ‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery. “ ‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard. “ ‘You shall not make any cuttings…

• 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.

• Leviticus 20:6 OT

  “ ‘The person that turns to those who are mediums and wizards, to play the prostitute after them, I will even set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people.

• Deuteronomy 18:9-14 OT

  When you have come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one…

• 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?

• Malachi 3:5 OT

  I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and…

• Isaiah 19:3 OT

  The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

• Isaiah 19:11 OT

  The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

• Isaiah 19:12 OT

  Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

• Exodus 7:11 OT

  Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.

• Exodus 7:22 OT

  The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

• Exodus 8:7 OT

  The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 8:18 OT

  The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal.

• Numbers 22:6 OT

  Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom…

• 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!’

• 2 Kings 9:22 OT

  When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”

• Nahum 3:4 OT

  because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

• Nahum 3:5 OT

  “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

• Isaiah 47:9-13 OT

  But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments. For you have…

• 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.

• 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 2:10 OT

  The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, “There is not a man on the earth who can show the king’s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.

• Daniel 2:27 OT

  Daniel answered before the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded can’t be shown to the king by wise men, enchanters, magicians, or soothsayers;