1 Samuel 28:7

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu berkatalah Saul kepada para pegawainya: "Carilah bagiku seorang perempuan yang sanggup memanggil arwah; maka aku hendak pergi kepadanya dan meminta petunjuk kepadanya." Para pegawainya menjawab dia: "Di En-Dor ada seorang perempuan yang sanggup memanggil arwah."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berkatalah Saul kepada para pegawainya: "Carilah bagiku seorang perempuan yang sanggup memanggil arwah; maka aku hendak pergi kepadanya dan meminta petunjuk kepadanya." Para pegawainya menjawab dia: "Di En-Dor ada seorang perempuan yang sanggup memanggil arwah."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu titah Saul kepada hambanya: Caharikanlah aku seorang perempuan yang menaruh syaitan tenungan, supaya boleh aku pergi meminta ikhtiar kepadanya. Maka sembah hambanya kepadanya: Bahwasanya di Endor adalah seorang perempuan yang menaruh syaitan tenungan.

Contextual Overview

⁷ Then sayd Saul vnto his seruautes: Seeke me a woman that hath a familier spirite, that I may go to her, and aske of her. And his seruauntes sayd to him: Beholde, there is a woman that hath a familier spirite at Endor. ⁸ And Saul chaunged him selfe, and put on other rayment, and then went he & two men with him, and they came to the woman by nyght, and he sayde: I pray thee coniecture vnto me by the familier spirite, & bring me him vp whom I shall name vnto thee. ⁹ And the woman saide vnto him: Beholde, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath destroyed the sorcerers, and the soothsayers out of the land: Wherfore then layest thou a snare for my soule, to cause me to die? ¹⁰ And Saul sware to her by the Lord, saying: As the Lorde lyueth, there shall no harme come to thee for this thyng. ¹¹ Then saide the woman: Whom shall I fetch vp vnto thee? He aunswered: Bring me vp Samuel. ¹² When the woman sawe Samuel, she cryed with a loude voyce, and spake to Saul, saying: Why hast thou deceaued me? for thou art Saul. ¹³ And the king saide vnto her: Be not afrayd: What sawest thou? The woman saide vnto Saul: I sawe gods ascending vp out of the earth. ¹⁴ He saide vnto her againe: What fashion is he of? She aunswered: There cometh vp an olde man with a mantel vpon him. And Saul perceaued that it was Samuel, and he stowped with his face to the ground, and bowed him selfe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Seek me: 2 Kings 1:2, 2 Kings 1:3, 2 Kings 6:33, Isaiah 8:19, Isaiah 8:20, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Habakkuk 2:3

a familiar spirit: 1 Samuel 28:3, Deuteronomy 18:11, Isaiah 19:3, Acts 16:16

that I may: Leviticus 19:31, 1 Chronicles 10:13, Isaiah 8:19

Endor: En-dor, a city of Manasseh, was situated in the plain of Jezreel; and Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that it was a great town in their days, four miles south from Mount Tabor, near Nain, towards Scythopolis. This agrees with Maundrell, who says, that not many miles eastward of Tabor, you see mount Hermon, at the foot of which is seated Nain and Endor; and Burckhardt says, that in two hours and a half from Nazareth, towards Scythopolis or Bisan, they came to the village of Denouny, near which are the ruins of Endor; where the witch's grotto is shewn. Joshua 17:11, Psalms 83:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:27 - a familiar Deuteronomy 18:10 - that useth divination Acts 19:19 - used

Cross-References

Genesis 27:43
Nowe therefore my sonne heare my voyce: make thee redy, and flee to Laban my brother at Haran,

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy dayes may be long in the lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth thee.

Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall feare euery man his mother and his father, & kepe my Sabbathes: I am the Lorde your God.

Proverbs 1:8
My sonne, heare thy fathers doctrine, & forsake not the lawe of thy mother:

Proverbs 30:17
Who so laugheth his father to scorne, and setteth his mothers commaundement at naught, the rauens of the valley picke out his eyes, and deuoured be he of the young Egles.

Ephesians 6:1
Chyldren, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lorde: for this is ryght.

Ephesians 6:3
That thou mayest prosper, and lyue long on earth.

Colossians 3:20
Chyldren, obey your fathers and mothers in all thynges, for that is well pleasyng vnto the Lorde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said Saul unto his servants,.... That waited upon him, to some of them, to such as he could place most confidence in to keep a secret; perhaps only the two after mentioned:

seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her; that was mistress of the bottle, a ventriloquist, that spoke out of her belly, or seemed to do; who had the spirit of Python or divination, conversed with the devil, and by his assistance pretended to bring up a dead person, and thereby foretell things to come; :-; a woman is pitched upon, because such were most addicted to those wicked arts, and being of the weaker sex, were more easily imposed upon by Satan; and Saul showed himself to be as weak, to seek after such persons; but being left of God, he acted the part of a mad man, as well as of a bad man:

and his servants said to him, behold, [there is] a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor; a city in the tribe of Manasseh, of which see

Joshua 17:11; it was not far from Gilboa. Mr. Maundrell speaks c of it as near Nain, at the foot of Mount Hermon; and turning, a little southward, he says, you have in view the high mountains of Gilboa. It is a tradition of the Jews d that this woman was the mother of Abner, the wife of Zephaniah; some say her name was Zephaniah; but, as Abarbinel observes, if so she would have known Saul, and also Saul would have known her, and what she was, if, as they say, she was spared because of her relation to him; nor needed he to have inquired of his servants for such a woman.

c Journey from Aleppo, p. 115. d Pirke Eliezer, c. 33. foi. 35. 2. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 8. 1. Hieron. Trad. Heb. in lib. Reg. fol. 77. B.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Enquire - A different word from that in 1 Samuel 28:6, though nearly synonymous with it. It is more frequently applied to inquiry of a false god, as e. g. 2 Kings 1:2; Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 19:3.

En-dor (see Joshua 11:2 note) was seven or eight miles from the slopes of Gilboa, on the north of little Hermon, where the Philistines were encamped; so that Saul must have run great risks in going there.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 28:7. Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit — Literally, Seek me a woman, בעלת אוב baalath ob, the mistress of the Ob or Pythonic spirit - one who had a familiar spirit, whom she could invoke when she pleased, and receive answers from him relative to futurity.

Strange that a man, who had banished all such from the land, as dangerous to the state, as impostors and deceivers, should now have recourse to them as the only persons in whom he could safely put his confidence in the time in which Jehovah had refused to help him!

At En-dor. — This was a city in the valley of Jezreel, at the foot of Mount Gilboa, where the army of Saul had now encamped.