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I Księga Samuela 28:6

A przetoż pytał Saul Pana, ale mu Pan nic nie odpowiedział, ani przez sen, ani przez urym, ani przez proroki.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Familiar Spirits;   Samuel;   Saul;   Urim and Thummim;   Thompson Chain Reference - Error;   Forsaken;   Mysteries-Revelations;   Prayer;   Revelation;   Sin;   Sin's;   Sin-Saviour;   Transgression;   Urim and Thummim;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;   Urim and Thummim;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dream;   Endor;   Urim and Thummin;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Samuel;   Saul, king of israel;   Urim and thummim;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Descent into Hell (Hades);   Magic;   Priest, Christ as;   Urim and Thummim;   War, Holy War;   Word;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - High Priest;   Magic;   Saul;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - David;   Divination;   Dream;   High Priest;   King;   Saul;   Urim and Thummim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Divination and Magic;   Dreams;   Inquire of God;   Samuel, Books of;   Urim and Thummim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   En-Dor;   Eschatology;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Priests and Levites;   Urim and Thummim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Descent into Hades;   Dream (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ephod;   Urim and Thummim;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Magic;   Saul;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Divination;   U'rim and Thum'mim;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Breastplate;   Dreams;   Urim and Thummim;   War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Army;   Famine;   God;   Inquire;   Intercession;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Urim and Thummim;   War;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abraham Ha-Levi ben Eliezer Ha-Zaḳen;   Dreams;   Endor, the Witch of;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
I radził się Saul Pana; ale mu nie odpowiedział Pan ani przez sny, ani przez urym, ani przez proroki;
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Pytał PANA o radę, ale PAN mu nie odpowiedział ani przez sny, ani przez urim, ani przez proroków.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Więc Saul radził się WIEKUISTEGO, ale WIEKUISTY mu nie odpowiedział, ani przez sny, ani przez Urym, ani przez proroków.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
I radził się Saul Pana; ale mu nie odpowiedział Pan ani przez sny, ani przez urym, ani przez proroki;
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
I Saul radził się PANA, lecz PAN mu nie odpowiedział ani przez sny, ani przez Urim, ani przez proroków.
Biblia Warszawska
I pytał się Saul Pana, ale Pan nie dał mu odpowiedzi ani przez sny, ani przez święte losy, ani przez proroków.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

inquired: 1 Samuel 14:37, 1 Chronicles 10:14, Proverbs 1:27, Proverbs 1:28, Lamentations 2:9, Ezekiel 20:1-3, John 9:31, James 4:3

by dreams: Genesis 28:12-15, Genesis 46:2-4, Numbers 12:6, Job 33:14-16, Jeremiah 23:28, Matthew 1:20

by Urim: Exodus 28:20, Numbers 27:21, Deuteronomy 33:8

by prophets: Psalms 74:9, Lamentations 2:9, Ezekiel 20:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:22 - inquire Exodus 28:30 - General 1 Samuel 23:4 - yet again 1 Samuel 28:15 - answereth 1 Samuel 30:8 - he answered him 2 Samuel 5:19 - And the Lord 2 Samuel 22:42 - unto the Lord 2 Kings 4:31 - neither voice 2 Kings 6:33 - this evil is of the Lord Ezra 2:63 - Urim Song of Solomon 5:6 - I sought Jeremiah 21:2 - Inquire Ezekiel 14:3 - should Ezekiel 20:31 - and shall Amos 8:11 - but Micah 3:7 - no John 10:35 - unto John 11:51 - being

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Saul inquired of the Lord,.... And this being not done truly and heartily, nor continued in, it was as if he had not inquired, and especially after he had inquired of one that had a familiar spirit, as Kimchi observes; for so it is said, 1 Chronicles 10:14;

the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams; which he dreamed himself, from whence he could not conclude anything relating to the will of God; so the Targum,

"the Lord did not receive his prayer even by dreams;''

or by dreamers, diviners, who pretended to give answers by dreams:

nor by Urim; there being no priest to consult in this way, Abiathar having fled with the ephod, in which were the Urim and Thummim, to David, 1 Samuel 23:9; though some think that he sent to Abiathar, who was with David, to inquire for him; and others that he made another ephod with Urim, and appointed another priest to consult by them; neither of which are probable:

nor by prophets; of which there was a school not far from him, even at Naioth in Ramah, of which Samuel in his lifetime was president; but neither by the one nor the other could Saul get an answer from God, who for his sins had departed from him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When Saul inquired of the Lord ... - It is said 1 Chronicles 10:14 that one reason why the Lord killed Saul, and gave his kingdom to David, was because he inquired not of the Lord. The explanation of this apparent discrepancy is to be found in the fact that inquiring of the familiar spirit was positively antagonistic to inquiring of the Lord. That Saul received no answer - when he “inquired of the Lord” by dreams, which was an immediate revelation to himself; by Urim, which was an answer through the high priest clothed in the ephod; or by prophets, which was an answer conveyed through some seer speaking by the Word of the Lord 1 Samuel 22:5 - was a reason for self-abasement and self-examination, to find out and, if possible, remove the cause, but was no justification whatever of his sin in asking counsel of familiar spirits.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 28:6. The Lord answered him not — He used the three methods by which supernatural intelligence was ordinarily given:-

1. Dreams. - The person prayed for instruction; and begged that God would answer by a significant dream.

2. Urim. - This was a kind of oracular answer given to the high priest when clothed with the ephod, on which were the Urim and Thummim. How these communicated the answer, is not well known.

3. Prophets. - Who were requested by the party concerned to consult the Lord on the subject in question, and to report his answer. The prophets at that time could only be those in the schools of the prophets, which Samuel had established at Naioth and Gibeah. These were the only successors of Samuel that we know of.


 
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