Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 18:10 - 18:10

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Treasury Of Scripture Knowledge - Deuteronomy 18:10 - 18:10


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maketh: Deu 12:31; Lev 18:21-30, Lev 20:2-5; 2Ki 16:3, 2Ki 17:17, 2Ki 21:6; 2Ch 28:3; Psa 106:37-38; Jer 19:4-6, Jer 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. Exo 22:18; Lev 19:26, Lev 19:31, Lev 20:26-27; 1Sa 28:3, 1Sa 28:7, 1Sa 28:9; 1Ch 10:13; 2Ch 33:6; Isa 8:19-20, Isa 47:13; Act 19:19; Gal 5:20