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Deuteronomy 18:9-12
When you come into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of these nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, Or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. read more.
For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and it is because of these abominable practices that the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

Micah 2:1
Woe (judgment is coming) to those who devise wickedness
And plot evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they practice evil
Because it is in the power of their hands.
 Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstPlansPower, HumanEvil PlansRising EarlyEvil DevicesPlottingDecadenceDeliberationIn The MorningWoe To The WickedGod's People SinningPowerNatural Disasterswickednessaccomplishment

Zephaniah 3:7

“I said, ‘Most certainly you will [reverently] fear Me;
Accept correction.’
So Jerusalem’s dwelling will not be cut off
In accordance with all that I have appointed concerning her [punishment],
But they were eager [even rising early] to make all their deeds corrupt. Verse ConceptseagernessPunishment, By GodRashnessFear Of God, Results OfRising EarlyFear God!Roses

Proverbs 27:14

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be counted as a curse to him [for it will either be annoying or his purpose will be suspect].
 Verse ConceptsPraying LoudlyIn The MorningPeople BlessingEarly RisingBest FriendsHaving A Good Daycurses

Isaiah 5:11

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who rise early in the morning to pursue intoxicating drink,
Who stay up late in the night till wine inflames them!
 Verse ConceptsAlcoholdrinking, abstention fromLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfRising Early, Examples OfHedonismRising EarlyAlcohol AbuseStrong DrinkFrom Morning Till EveningLatenessWoe To The WickedAlcoholicsDrunkennessEarly RisingOvercoming Hard TimesStaying Strong During Hard Timesheroesbeeralcoholismdrunkards

Jeremiah 27:9
And as for you, do not listen to your [counterfeit] prophets, your diviners, your dreams and dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers, who say to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ Verse ConceptsListeningMediumsFortunetellingOccultismDivinationMisleading DreamsFalse Prophets DenouncedAvoid SorceryDo Not Listen!SorceryDreams And False Prophetsmagic

Jeremiah 14:14
Then the Lord said to me, “The [counterfeit] prophets are prophesying lies in My Name. I have neither sent them nor authorized them nor spoken to them. They are prophesying to you made-up visions [pretending to call forth responses from handmade gods], a worthless divination and the deceit of their own mind. Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByDeception Through False TeachersVisionsDivinationWicked ProphetsProphets Who Were Not SentFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

Jeremiah 29:8-9
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your [false] prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you; pay no attention and attach no significance to your dreams which you dream or to theirs, For they prophesy falsely to you in My name. I have not sent them, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:28
Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God’—when the Lord has not spoken. Verse ConceptsVisionsWhiteDivinationWhitewashingFalse VisionsProphesying LiesProphets Who Were Not SentFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

Matthew 24:24
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and they will provide great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect (God’s chosen ones). Verse ConceptsAdding to the BibleFalse TeachingsFalse ChristsGuidance, Need For God'sAntichristMiracles, Nature OfFalse Prophets, Examples OfMiraculous SignsSatan, Agents OfSatan, As DeceiverFalse Miracles, Nature OfPredestination, Spiritual EventsLying WondersPossibilities For PeopleBeing MisleadFalse PeopleSigns Of EvilPossible For PeopleDeception In The End TimesSigns Of The Timesend times prophecyMiracles CounterfeitedDeceptionSigns Of The End Timesmath

Ezekiel 13:6-9
They have seen falsehood and lying divination, saying, The Lord says; but the Lord has not sent them. Yet they have hoped and made men to hope for the confirmation of their word. Have you not seen a false vision and have you not spoken a lying divination when you say, The Lord says, although I have not spoken? Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken empty, false, and delusive words and have seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord God. read more.
And My hand shall be against the prophets who see empty, false, and delusive visions and who give lying prophecies. They shall not be in the secret council of My people, nor shall they be recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord God.

Daniel 2:2
Then the king gave a command to call the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. Verse ConceptsStandingAnger Of Man, CauseAstrologersDivinationOccultismDrugs

Daniel 2:27
Daniel answered the king and said, “Regarding the mystery about which the king has inquired, neither the wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor astrologers are able to answer the king, Verse ConceptsAstrologyClairvoyancesNecromancyPeople's Inability To UnderstandDisclosuresUnable To Understandpsychics

Ezekiel 21:21-22
For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the fork of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows to and fro, he consults the teraphim (household gods), he looks at the liver. In his right hand is the lot marked for Jerusalem: to set battering rams, to open the mouth calling for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a war cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up siege mounds, and to build siege towers.

Isaiah 47:9-13
But these two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day: loss of children and widowhood. They shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of the multitude of [your claims to] power given you by the assistance of evil spirits, in spite of the great abundance of your enchantments. For you [Babylon] have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart and mind, I am, and there is no one besides me. Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know the dawning of it or how to charm it away. And a disaster and evil shall fall upon you that you shall not be able to atone for [with all your offerings to your gods]; and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, about which you shall know nothing or how to avert it. read more.
Persist, then, with your enchantments and the multitude of your sorceries [Babylon], in which you have labored from your youth; and see if perhaps you will be able to profit, if you will prevail and strike terror! You are wearied with your many counsels and plans. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and make known to you and save you from the things that shall come upon you [Babylon].

Daniel 2:10
The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who can tell the king this matter, for no king, lord or ruler has ever asked such a thing as this of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean. Verse ConceptsAstrologyDivinationUnique EventsNo One Available

Numbers 22:6
Now please come, curse these people for me, for they are too powerful for me; perhaps I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know [your reputation] that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.” Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyInvitationsSorcery And MagicCursing IsraelPeople Blessing

Numbers 23:23

“For there is no enchantment or omen against Jacob,
Nor is there any divination against Israel.
At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob
And to Israel, what has God done!
 Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicDivinationWhat Does God Do?SorceryEclipseisraelmagicadvertisingOccult Being Powerless Before God

Micah 3:6-7
Therefore it shall be night to you, so that you shall have no vision; yes, it shall be dark to you without divination. And the sun shall go down over the false prophets, and the day shall be black over them. And the seers shall be put to shame and the diviners shall blush and be confounded; yes, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

Jeremiah 10:2
Thus says the Lord,

“Do not learn the way of the [pagan] nations,
And do not be terrified and distressed by the signs of the heavens
Although the pagans are terrified by them;
 Verse ConceptsAstrologySkySuperstitionHeathenOccultismFear, Of UnknownDivinationFruitless LearningSigns In The SkyEclipsecultureatheismalignment

Exodus 7:11
Then Pharaoh called for the wise men [skilled in magic and omens] and the sorcerers [skilled in witchcraft], and they also, these magicians (soothsayer-priests) of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts and enchantments. Verse ConceptsImitating OthersMagical Arts, Practice OfSecrecySorcery And MagicWisdom, Human NatureFalse Miracles, Examples OfLying WondersMagiciansNecromancyWise MenKings SummoningSorcerymagic

Exodus 8:7
But the magicians (soothsayer-priests) did the same thing with their secret arts and enchantments, and brought up [more] frogs on the land of Egypt. Verse ConceptsImitating OthersMiracles, Nature OfSecrecyFalse Miracles, Examples OfLying WondersMagiciansNecromancyMiracles Counterfeitedmagic

Exodus 7:22
But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts and enchantments; so Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said. Verse ConceptsImitating OthersFalse Miracles, Examples OfLying WondersStiffnecked PeopleObstinate Individualsmagic

Exodus 8:18
The magicians (soothsayer-priests) tried by their secret arts and enchantments to create gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats on man and animal. Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicFliesBoth Men And Animals AffectedUnable To Do Other Thingsmagic

Isaiah 19:3

“Then the spirit of the Egyptians will become exhausted within them and emptied out;
And I will confuse their strategy,
So that they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
And mediums and soothsayers.
 Verse ConceptsadvisersHuman EmotionGuidance, Need For God'sHeart, HumanMediumsPessimismPlansSpiritsDivinationNecromancyLosing CourageOccultismOccult Being Powerless Before God

Isaiah 19:11-12
The princes of Zoan [ancient capital of the Pharaohs] are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become witless (stupid). How can you say to Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings? Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now [if they are so wise], and let them make known what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt [if they can].

Acts 19:14-15
Seven sons of a certain Jewish chief priest named Sceva were doing this. But [one] evil spirit retorted, Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?

Acts 8:9
Now there was a man named Simon, who previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great. Verse ConceptsClaimsPride, Examples OfSelf ConfidenceSuperiorityBoastersGreat IndividualsSorcerymagic

Daniel 5:7
The king called aloud to bring in the enchanters (Magi), the Chaldeans [who were master astrologers] and the diviners. The king said to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever can read this writing and explain its interpretation to me shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold put around his neck, and have authority as the third ruler in the kingdom.” Verse ConceptsInscriptionsClothingChainsGoldRulersWisdom, Human NatureWisdom, Source Of HumanColors, PurpleRich ApparelDressGold ChainsPurple ClothesGold OrnamentsJewelleryThird PersonReading Other Matter

Daniel 5:15
Now the wise men and the enchanters, were brought in before me so that they might read this writing and reveal its meaning to me, but they could not give the interpretation of the message. Verse ConceptsInscriptionsInterpreting LanguageReading Other Matterpsychics

Acts 16:16
It happened that as we were on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination [that is, a demonic spirit claiming to foretell the future and discover hidden knowledge], and she brought her owners a good profit by fortune-telling. Verse ConceptsMagical Arts, Practice Ofdemons, Kinds ofMastersMoney, Uses OfPredictionsDivinationFortunetellingNecromancyWhere To PraySorceryThe Futuremagicpsychics

Acts 19:13
Then some of the traveling Jewish exorcists also attempted to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I implore you and solemnly command you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches!” Verse ConceptsMagical Arts, Practice Ofdriving outSuperstitionAdjurationWanderersPeople Casting Out DemonsIn The Name Of ChristThose DemonisedDemonsCasting Out Demons

Nahum 3:4-5
All because of the multitude of the harlotries [of Nineveh], the well-favored harlot, the mistress of deadly charms who betrays and sells nations through her whoredoms [idolatry] and peoples through her enchantments. Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will lift up your skirts over your face, and I will let the nations look on your nakedness [O Nineveh] and the kingdoms on your shame.

2 Kings 9:22
When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?” And he answered, “What peace [can exist] as long as the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?” Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryMothers, Examples OfMothers Of KingsAvoid Sorcerywitchesjezebel

Acts 13:8
But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is how his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from accepting the faith. Verse ConceptsConfrontationFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsGospel, Responses ToCausing People To TurnMeaningSorcery

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