Isaiah 8:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

That peep

Isaiah 29:4

Should not

1 Samuel 28:16

2 Kings 1:3

2 Peter 2:1

For the living

Psalm 106:28

Jeremiah 10:10

1 Thessalonians 1:9

General references

Bible References

That peep

And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be, as of one that is a medium, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

Should not

Then said Samuel, Why then do you ask of me, seeing the LORD has departed from you, and has become your enemy?

But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it because there is not a God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who shall secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

For the living

They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices to the dead.

But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to endure his indignation.

For they themselves show of us what manner of welcome we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

General references

Regard not mediums, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you shall be able to profit, perhaps you may prevail.

Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

And I will cut off sorceries out of your hand; and you shall have no more soothsayers: