Sorcery

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Daniel 5:7 OT

  The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a…

• Daniel 5:15 OT

  Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

• 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,

• Acts 11:1-30 NT

  Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him, saying, “You went in to…

• Acts 13:8 NT

  But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

• 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.

• Acts 19:13 NT

  But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

• Acts 19:14 NT

  There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

• Acts 19:15 NT

  The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”

• Jeremiah 10:2 OT

  Yahweh says, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

• Micah 3:6 OT

  “Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

• Micah 3:7 OT

  The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.”

• Jeremiah 14:14 OT

  Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

• Jeremiah 27:9 OT

  But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”

• 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.

• Jeremiah 29:9 OT

  For they prophesy falsely to you in my name. I have not sent them,” says Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 13:6-9 OT

  They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed. Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination,…

• Ezekiel 22:28 OT

  Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.

• Matthew 24:24 NT

  For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

• Ezekiel 12:23 OT

  Tell them therefore, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel;” ’ but tell them, ‘ “The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

• Ezekiel 12:24 OT

  For there will be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 13:23 OT

  Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

• Micah 5:12 OT

  I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.

• Ezekiel 21:29 OT

  while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day has come in the time of the iniquity of the end.