Deu 18:10-12, Psa 106:37-39, Jer 7:31, 19:5, Eze 20:26 | TSK | STEP | maketh. that useth divination.The precise import of the terms here used to express these unhallowed practices cannot be clearly ascertained: he that useth divination, {kosaim, kesamim,} seems a general term for the various species after specified; observer of times, {meonain,} one who pretends to foretell by the clouds, planets, etc.; enchanter {menachesh,} a diviner, either by means of serpents, or by inspecting the entrails of beasts, the flight of birds, etc.; a witch, {mecashsheph,} one who used magical fumigations, etc.; a charmer, {chover chaver,} one who uses spells, or a peculiar conjunction of words, or tying knots, etc.; a consulter with familiar spirits, {shoel ov,} a pythoness; a wizard, {yidoni,} a cunning man; necromancer, {doresh el hammaithim} one who seeks enquiries of the dead.

Deuteronomy 18:10-12

maketh.

12:31; Le 18:21-30; 20:2-5; 2Ki 16:3; 17:17; 21:6; 2Ch 28:3

that useth divination.The precise import of the terms here used to express these unhallowed practices cannot be clearly ascertained: he that useth divination, {kosaim, kesamim,} seems a general term for the various species after specified; observer of times, {meonain,} one who pretends to foretell by the clouds, planets, etc.; enchanter {menachesh,} a diviner, either by means of serpents, or by inspecting the entrails of beasts, the flight of birds, etc.; a witch, {mecashsheph,} one who used magical fumigations, etc.; a charmer, {chover chaver,} one who uses spells, or a peculiar conjunction of words, or tying knots, etc.; a consulter with familiar spirits, {shoel ov,} a pythoness; a wizard, {yidoni,} a cunning man; necromancer, {doresh el hammaithim} one who seeks enquiries of the dead.

Ex 22:18; Le 19:26,31; 20:26,27; 1Sa 28:3,7,9; 1Ch 10:13; 2Ch 33:6

Isa 8:19,20; 47:13; Ac 19:19; Ga 5:20

or a necromancer.

1Sa 28:11-14

9:4; Le 18:24,27

Psalms 106:37-39

they sacrificed.However unnatural and horrid human sacrifices may appear, it is certain, that they did not only exist, but almost universally prevailed in the heathen world, especially among the Canaanites and Phoenicians.

De 12:30,31; 18:10; 2Ki 16:3; 17:17; 21:6; Isa 57:5; Jer 7:31; 32:35

Eze 16:20,21; 20:26; 23:37,47

devils.

Le 17:7; De 32:17; 2Ch 11:15; 1Co 10:20; Ro 9:20

shed.

De 21:9; 2Ki 21:16; 24:4; Jer 2:34

the land.

Nu 35:33; Isa 1:15; 26:21; Eze 7:23; 22:3

defiled.

Isa 24:5,6; 59:3; Eze 20:18,30,31,43

went.

Ex 34:16; Le 17:7; 20:5,6; Nu 15:39; Jer 3:1,2,6-9; Eze 16:15-63