申命记 18:11

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

念咒的、問鬼的、行巫術的、過陰的。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
用 迷 术 的 、 交 鬼 的 、 行 巫 术 的 、 过 阴 的 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, don't learn to do the hateful things the other nations do. ¹⁰ Don't let anyone among you offer a son or daughter as a sacrifice in the fire. Don't let anyone use magic or witchcraft, or try to explain the meaning of signs. ¹¹ Don't let anyone try to control others with magic, and don't let them be mediums or try to talk with the spirits of dead people. ¹² The Lord hates anyone who does these things. Because the other nations do these things, the Lord your God will force them out of the land ahead of you. ¹³ But you must be innocent in the presence of the Lord your God. ¹⁴ The nations you will force out listen to people who use magic and witchcraft, but the Lord your God will not let you do those things.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

or a necromancer: 1 Samuel 28:11-14

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:18 - General 1 Samuel 15:23 - witchcraft 1 Samuel 28:3 - put away 1 Samuel 28:7 - a familiar spirit 1 Samuel 28:8 - I pray thee Psalms 58:5 - charming never so wisely Isaiah 8:19 - Seek Isaiah 65:4 - remain

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Abraham bowed facedown on the ground and laughed. He said to himself, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth to a child when she is ninety?"

Genesis 17:24
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised.

Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were very old. Since Sarah was past the age when women normally have children,

Genesis 18:12
she laughed to herself, "My husband and I are too old to have a baby."

Genesis 18:18
Abraham's children will certainly become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.

Genesis 18:21
I will go down and see if they are as bad as I have heard. If not, I will know."

Genesis 31:35
Rachel said to her father, "Father, don't be angry with me. I am not able to stand up before you because I am having my monthly period." So Laban looked through the camp, but he did not find his idols.

Leviticus 15:19
"‘When a woman has her monthly period, she is unclean for seven days; anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening.

Luke 1:7
But they had no children, because Elizabeth could not have a baby, and both of them were very old.

Luke 1:18
Zechariah said to the angel, "How can I know that what you say is true? I am an old man, and my wife is old, too."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Or a charmer,.... That pretends to cure diseases by charms, or a charmer of serpents; according to Jarchi, one that gathers together serpents and scorpions, and other animals, into one place; with which agree the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem,

"which bind serpents and scorpions, and all kind of creeping things;''

but, according to Aben Ezra, one that says certain words to gather demons together:

or a consulter with familiar spirits; or the inquirer of "Ob", or the bottle, which the Jews interpret of Python, or one that has the spirit of Python; see Acts 16:16, a ventriloquist, one that spoke or seemed to speak out of his belly, or from under his armpits; so it is said in the Misnah h of Ob, this is Python, one that speaks out of his arm holes; agreeably to which, Jarchi says, this is that sort of witchcraft which is called Python, and he speaks from his arm holes, and brings up the dead thither: of Baal Ob, or the master of the bottle, say some Jewish writers, one way he uses is, he takes the skull of a dead man, the flesh of which is consumed from it, and he hides it and burns incense to it, and mutters words by it, and hears from it, as if from a dead man k: or a wizard: a knowing one, as the word signifies, such an one as we call a cunning man; Acts 16:16- :

or a necromancer that inquiries of the dead, or seeks instruction from them, as the Targum of Jerusalem. Aben Ezra describes him as one that goes to burying grounds, and takes the bone of a dead man, and because of his wild imagination there appears to him the likeness of forms; or as Maimonides l, better still, he is one that fasts and sleeps in graveyards, and utters words; and, according to his imagination, sees future things in dreams.

h Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 7. k Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. l In ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A charmer - i. e., one who fascinates and subdues noxious animals or men, such as the famous serpent-charmers of the East Psalms 58:4-5.

A consulter with familiar spirits ... a wizard - Compare Leviticus 19:31 note.

Recromancer - literally, “one who interrogates the dead.” The purpose of the text is obviously to group together all the known words belonging to the practices in question. Compare 2 Chronicles 33:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 18:11. A charmer — חבר חבר chober chaber, one who uses spells; a peculiar conjunction, as the term implies, of words, or things, tying knots, c., for the purposes of divination. This was a custom among the heathen, as we learn from the following verses: -

Necte TRIBUS NODIS ternos, Amarylli, colores:

Necte, Amarylli, modo et Veneris, dic, vincula necto.

Virg. Ecl. viii., ver. 77.

"Knit with three KNOTS the fillets, knit them straight;

Then say, these KNOTS to love I consecrate."

DRYDEN.

A consulter with familiar spirits — שאל אוב shoel ob, a Pythoness, one who inquires by the means of one spirit to get oracular answers from another of a superior order. Leviticus 19:31.

A wizard — ידעני yiddeoni, a wise one, a knowing one. Wizard was formerly considered as the masculine of witch, both practising divination by similar means. Exodus 22:13, and Leviticus 19:31.

Or a necromancer. — דרש אל המתים doresh el hammethim, one who seeks from or inquires of the dead. Such as the witch at Endor, who professed to evoke the dead, in order to get them to disclose the secrets of the spiritual world.