Meaning
Sorcery Divination by an alleged assistance of evil spirits.
Forbidden
Lev 19:28; Lev 19:31; Lev 20:6; Deu 18:14
Denounced
Isa 8:19; Mal 3:5
Practiced:
- By the Egyptians
Isa 19:3; Isa 19:12
- By the magicians
Exo 7:11; Exo 7:22; Exo 8:7; Exo 8:18
- By Balaam
Num 22
- By Jezebel
2Ki 9:22
- By the Ninevites
Nah 3:5
- By the Babylonians
Isa 47:13; Eze 21:22; Dan 2:2; Dan 2:10; Dan 2:27
- By Belshazzar
Dan 5:7; Dan 5:15
- By Simon Magus
Act 8:9; Act 8:11
- By Elymas
Act 13:8
- By the damsel at Philippi
Act 16:16
- By vagabond Jews
Act 19:13
- By sons of Sceva
Act 19:15
- By astrologers
Jer 10:2; Mic 3:7
- By false prophets
Jer 14:14; Jer 27:9; Jer 29:9; Eze 13:9; Eze 22:28; Mat 24:24
To cease
Eze 12:24; Eze 13:23; Mic 5:12
Messages of, false
Eze 21:29; Zec 10:2; 2Th 2:9
Diviners shall be confounded
Mic 3:7
Belongs to the works of the flesh
Gal 5:20
Wickedness of
1Sa 15:23
Vainness of
Isa 44:25
Punishment for
Exo 22:18; Lev 20:27; Deu 13:5
Divining by:
- Familiar spirits
Lev 20:27; 1Ch 10:13; 2Ch 33:6; Isa 8:19; Isa 19:3; Isa 29:4
- Entrails
Eze 21:21
- Images
2Ki 23:24; Eze 21:21
- Rods
Hos 4:12
Saul consulted the witch of En-Dor
1Sa 28:25
Books of, destroyed
Act 19:19
