Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Samuel 28:7 - 28:7

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Samuel 28:7 - 28:7


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Seek me a woman, rather than a man; for he thought that sex most likely to be given to those wicked arts, as being the weaker sex, and so aptest to be deceived, and most prone to superstition, and ofttimes most malicious and revengeful. That hath a familiar spirit; one that converseth with the devil, and dead men’s ghosts, and by them can discover future things. See Isa_8:19.



His servants said to him; instead of dissuading him from this wicked and destructive practice, which they should and would have done, if they had either loved God or their king, they further him in it.



En-dor; a place in the tribe of Manasseh, within Jordan, not very fir from the place where the armies were encamped.