Topic
Familiar Spirits
9 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 They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently.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.
- Leviticus 19:31Nave Consulting of, forbidden
¶ Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 20:6Nave Consulting of, forbidden
¶ And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
- Leviticus 20:27Nave Consulting of, forbidden
¶ A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
- Deuteronomy 18:10Nave Consulting of, forbidden
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
- Deuteronomy 18:11Nave Consulting of, forbidden
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
- 1 Samuel 28:3–25Nave INSTANCES OF THOSE WHO CONSULTED — Saul
¶ Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and…
- 1 Chronicles 10:13Nave INSTANCES OF THOSE WHO CONSULTED — Saul
¶ So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
- Isaiah 8:19Nave Vain
¶ And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
- Isaiah 19:3Nave Vain
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.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 11 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Consulting of, forbidden Le 19:31; 20:6,27; De 18:10,11
- → Vain Isa 8:19; 19:3
- → Those who consulted, to be cut off Le 20:6,27
- → INSTANCES OF THOSE WHO CONSULTED
- Saul 1Sa 28:3-25; 1Ch 10:13
- See DEMONS
- See NECROMANCY
- See WITCHCRAFT
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.