1 Samuel 28:8

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Y Saúl se disfrazó poniéndose otra ropa, y se fue con dos hombres, y vinieron de noche a aquella mujer; y él dijo: Yo te ruego que me adivines por el espíritu de pitón, y me hagas subir a quien yo te dijere.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Saúl se disfrazó poniéndose otras ropas y fue con dos hombres; llegaron a la mujer de noche, y él dijo: Te ruego que evoques por mí a un espíritu, y que hagas subir al que yo te diga.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Samuel 28:8"> 8 Y disfrazóse Saúl, y púsose otros vestidos, y fuése con dos hombres, y vinieron á aquella mujer de noche; y él dijo: Yo te ruego que me adivines por el espíritu de pythón, y me hagas subir á quien yo te dijere.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y se disfrazó Saúl, y se puso otros vestidos, y se fue con dos hombres, y vinieron a aquella mujer de noche; y él dijo: Yo te ruego que me adivines por el espíritu de pitón, y me hagas subir a quien yo te dijere.

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

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.