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The Witch of Endor is a name occasionally given to ships, both real and in fiction, such as in the Horatio Hornblower novels [32] and the Sci Fi series The Expanse. [33] In music, the Witch of Endor is mentioned in the last verse of the song "Lover, Leaver" by Greta Van Fleet. [citation needed] The Witch of Endor is also a plot point in The ...
1 Samuel 28 is the twenty-eighth chapter of the First Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible or the first part of the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel , with additions by the prophets Gad and Nathan , [ 2 ] but modern scholars view it as a ...
The exact difference between the three forbidden forms of necromancy mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:11 is a matter of uncertainty; yidde'oni ("wizard") is always used together with ob ("consulter with familiar spirits"), [7] and its semantic similarity to doresh el ha-metim ("necromancer", or "one who directs inquiries to the dead") raises the ...
Saul consults the witch of Endor, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. Endor was first mentioned in Joshua 17:11, when Endor fell within the tribal allotments of Manasseh. In 1 Samuel 28:4–25, Saul consulted a medium or witch at Endor (1 Samuel 28:7), [3] who lived in the village, on the evening before the Battle of Gilboa, in which ...
However, the so-called witch was shocked at the presence of a familiar spirit in the image of Samuel for in I Sam 28:7 states "Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor" and in I Sam 28:12 says, "when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice", and the familiar spirit questioned his reawakening, asking as if he ...
While the Witch of Endor remains anonymous in the Biblical account, the rabbinical Midrash maintains that she was Zephaniah, the mother of Abner (Yalḳ, Sam. 140, from Pirḳe R. El.). That a supernatural appearance is here described is inferred from the repeated emphasis laid on the statement that Samuel had died and had been buried (I Sam ...
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1 Samuel 26 is the twenty-sixth chapter of the First Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible or the first part of the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel , with additions by the prophets Gad and Nathan , [ 2 ] but modern scholars view it as a ...