Exo 7:11-12, Deu 13:1-3, 18:9-11, 1Sa 28:7, 1Ch 10:13, Act 8:9-11, 16:18 | TSK | STEP | wise men. sorcerers.{Mechashshaphim,} probably from the Arabic {kashapha,} to discover, reveal, signifies diviners, or those who pretended to reveal futurity, to discover things lost, or to find hidden treasures. they also. enchantments.By the word {lahatim,} from {lahat,} to burn, may be meant such incantations as required lustral fires, fumigations, etc.

Exodus 7:11-12

wise men.

Ge 41:8,38,39; Isa 19:11,12; 47:12,13; Da 2:2,27; 4:7-9; 5:7,11

sorcerers.{Mechashshaphim,} probably from the Arabic {kashapha,} to discover, reveal, signifies diviners, or those who pretended to reveal futurity, to discover things lost, or to find hidden treasures.

they also.

22; 8:7,18; De 13:1-3; Mt 24:24; Ga 3:1; Eph 4:14; 2Th 2:9

Re 13:11-15

enchantments.By the word {lahatim,} from {lahat,} to burn, may be meant such incantations as required lustral fires, fumigations, etc.

but Aaron's.

8:18,19; 9:11; Ac 8:9-13; 13:8-11; 19:19,20; 1Jo 4:4

Deuteronomy 13:1-3

1 Enticers to idolatry;

6 how near soever unto thee;

9 are to be stoned to death.

12 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared.

a prophet.That is, one pretending to the divine inspiration and authority of the prophetic office, or a dreamer of dreams, one who pretends that some deity has spoken to him in the night season, and giveth thee a sign, {oth,} what appears to be a miraculous proof of his mission, or a wonder, {mopheth,} some portentous sign, such as an eclipse, which he, who knew when it would happen, might predict to the people, who knew nothing of the matter, and thereby accredit his pretensions. But no pretended miracles must be admitted as a proof that the people might violate the first and great commandment.

1Ki 13:18; Isa 9:15; Jer 6:13; 23:11; Eze 13:2,3,23; Zec 13:4

Mt 7:15; 24:11; Lu 6:26; 2Pe 2:1; 1Jo 4:1

a dreamer.

Jer 23:25-28; 27:9; 29:8,24; *marg:

Zec 10:2

18:22; Ex 7:22; 1Ki 13:3; Jer 28:9; Mt 7:22,23; 24:24; 2Co 11:13-15

2Th 2:9-11; Re 13:13,14

hearken.

Isa 8:20; Ac 17:11; Eph 4:14; 1Jo 4:1

proveth.

8:2; Ps 66:10; 81:7; Mt 24:24; 1Co 11:19; 2Th 2:11; 1Jo 2:19; 4:4

Re 13:14

ye love the Lord your God.

6:5; 2Co 8:8

Deuteronomy 18:9-11

12:29-31; Le 18:26,27,30

maketh.

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

Ps 106:37,38; Jer 19:4-6; 32:35

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

1 Samuel 28:7

Seek me.

2Ki 1:2,3; 6:33; Isa 8:19,20; La 3:25,26; Hab 2:3

a familiar spirit.

3; De 18:11; Isa 19:3; Ac 16:16

that I may.

Le 19:31; 1Ch 10:13; Isa 8:19

En-dor.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.

Jos 17:11; Ps 83:10