Topic
Charmers and Charming
5 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 18:11Nave Prohibited
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
- Psalms 58:4Nave Of serpents
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
- Psalms 58:5Nave Of serpents
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
- Isaiah 19:3Nave General scriptures concerning
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
- Jeremiah 8:17Nave General scriptures concerning
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
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Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.