the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Chinese Union (Simplified)
撒母耳记上 28:9
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那女人回答他：“你是知道掃羅所作的，他已經把交鬼的和行巫術的，都從國中剪除了，你為甚麼要陷害我的命，使我死呢？”
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
how he hath: 1 Samuel 28:3
wherefore: 2 Samuel 18:13, 2 Kings 5:7
Reciprocal: Exodus 22:18 - General Deuteronomy 18:10 - that useth divination
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the woman said unto him,.... Not knowing who he was:
behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done; for by his speech and habit she perceived he was an Israelite, and so must be acquainted with what had passed in the nation, especially of a public nature, and which made a great noise, as doubtless this, lid:
how he both cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards,
out of the land; as many of them as he had knowledge of, or information about; and by this it appears that he did not merely expel them his dominions, but he put them to death, according to the law of God, Exodus 22:18; so the putting them out of the land, 1 Samuel 28:3, was putting them to death, and the woman's after reasoning confirms this: one should think for Saul to be told this to his face must fill him with shame and confusion, and his conscience must accuse him of sin and folly to make this attempt; and he must stand self-convicted and self-condemned; and it was enough to have deterred him from pursuing his scheme, had not his heart been strangely hardened:
wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die? she suspected that Saul and his men were persons that came to entrap her; that when they had prevailed upon her to exercise her art, would turn informers against her, to the taking away of her life, it being death to practise it.
