1 Samuel 28:8

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Lalu menyamarlah Saul, ia mengenakan pakaian lain dan pergilah ia dengan dua orang. Ketika mereka pada waktu malam sampai kepada perempuan itu, berkatalah Saul: "Cobalah engkau menenung bagiku dengan perantaraan arwah, dan panggillah supaya muncul kepadaku orang yang akan kusebut kepadamu."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu menyamarlah Saul, ia mengenakan pakaian lain dan pergilah ia dengan dua orang. Ketika mereka pada waktu malam sampai kepada perempuan itu, berkatalah Saul: "Cobalah engkau menenung bagiku dengan perantaraan arwah, dan panggillah supaya muncul kepadaku orang yang akan kusebut kepadamu."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka Saulpun menyamarkan dirinya serta bertukar pakaian, lalu pergilah ia dengan dua orang sertanya, maka ketiganya sampailah kepada perempuan itu pada malam, lalu titah Saul: Pertenunglah engkau akan daku dan bangkitkanlah akan daku orang yang akan kukatakan kepadamu.

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

disguised: 1 Kings 14:2, 1 Kings 14:3, 1 Kings 22:30, 1 Kings 22:34, Job 24:13-15, Jeremiah 23:24, John 3:19

I pray thee: Deuteronomy 18:11, 1 Chronicles 10:13, Isaiah 8:19

bring me: 1 Samuel 28:15

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 18:29 - I will disguise Ezekiel 12:6 - cover

Cross-References

Genesis 24:3
And I wyll make thee sweare by the Lorde God of heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Chanaanites, amongest which I dwel:

Genesis 28:1
And so Isahac called Iacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and sayde vnto hym: See thou take not a wyfe of the daughters of Chanaan:

1 Samuel 8:6
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, geue vs a king to iudge vs: And Samuel prayed vnto the lorde.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment,.... Stripped himself of his royal robes, or military apparel, as supreme commander, and clothed himself in the habit of a peasant or a common soldier; and this not only that he might not be known by the woman, but that he might pass from his army incognito, and it might not be known that he was gone, and especially whither he was gone:

and he went, and two men with him: these, according to the tradition of the Jews e, were Abner and Amasa; but it is not probable that Saul should leave his army destitute of their general at such a time as this:

and they came to the woman by night; not only that they might not be seen, but because it was a work of darkness they were going about, and it was only in the night season that such persons exercised their black art; though the Jews f say it was day, only because of their distress it was like tonight with them; but the literal sense is best:

and he said, I pray thee divine unto me by the familiar spirit; exercise her art of divination, by the assistance of the familiar spirit she conversed with:

and bring me up whom I shall name unto thee: that is, from the dead; for necromancy was the kind of divination she professed; and such persons pretended to have a power to bring up a deceased person, and consult with him about secret and future things.

e Vajikra Rabba, sect. 26. fol. 167. 1. Shalshalet ib. f Tanchuma apud Jarchiura in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Divine - Compare to 1 Samuel 6:2, note; Numbers 23:23, note.

Bring me him up - The art of the ventriloquist seems to have been always connected with necromancy. The Greeks had necromancers who called up departed spirits to give answers to those who consulted them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 28:8. Saul disguised himself — That he might not be known by the woman, lest she, being terrified, should refuse to use her art.