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Do not practice divination or soothsaying.
[Taken from LEV 19:26]
"Do not go to mediums or consult
fortune-tellers, for you will be defiled by them. I, the LORD, am
your God." [LEV 19:31]
Balaam, however, perceiving that the LORD was
pleased to bless Israel, did not go aside as before to seek omens,
but turned his gaze toward the desert. [NUM 24:1]
"When you come into the land which the
LORD, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the
abominations of the peoples there. Let there not be found among
you anyone who immolates his son or daughter in the fire, nor a
fortune-teller, soothsayer, charmer, diviner, or caster of spells,
nor one who consults ghosts and spirits or seeks oracles from the
dead. Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD,
and because of such abominations the LORD, your God, is driving
these nations out of your way. You, however, must be altogether
sincere toward the LORD, your God. Though these nations whom you
are to dispossess listen to their soothsayers and fortune-tellers,
the LORD, your God, will not permit you to do so. A prophet like
me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own
kinsmen; to him you shall listen." [DEUT 18:9-15]
This Amorite king, who reigned in Heshbon, Moses had killed, with his vassals, the princes of Midian, who were settled in the land: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba; and among their slain followers the Israelites put to the sword also the soothsayer Balaam, son of
Beor. [Taken from JOSH 13:21-22]
"For a sin like divination is rebellion, and
presumption is the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected
the command of the LORD, he, too, has rejected you as ruler."
[Taken from 1SAM 15:23]
They immolated their sons and daughters by fire,
practiced fortune-telling and divination, and sold themselves into
evil doing in the LORD'S sight, provoking him [Taken from 2KGS 17:17]
[Manasseh] immolated his son by fire. He practiced
soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of
ghosts and spirits. He did much evil in the LORD'S sight and
provoked him to anger. [Taken from 2KGS 21:6]
Further, Josiah did away with the consultation
of ghosts and spirits, with the household gods, idols, and all the
other horrors to be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so
that he might carry out the stipulations of the law written in the
book that the priest Hilkiah had found in the temple of the LORD.
Before him there had been no king who turned to the LORD as he
did, with his whole heart, his whole soul, and his whole strength,
in accord with the entire law of Moses; nor could any after him
compare with him. Yet, because of all the provocations that
Manasseh had given, the LORD did not desist from his fiercely
burning anger against Judah. The LORD said: "Even Judah will
I put out of my sight as I did Israel. I will reject this city,
Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, 'There
shall my name be.'"
[2KGS 23:24-27]
Thus Saul died because of his rebellion against the LORD in disobeying his command, and also because he had sought counsel of a necromancer, and had not rather inquired of the LORD. Therefore the LORD slew him, and transferred his kingdom to David, the son of Jesse. [1CHRON 10:13-14]
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became
king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. He did evil in
the sight of the LORD, following the abominable practices of the
nations whom the LORD had cleared out of the way of the
Israelites. He rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah
had torn down, erected altars for the Baals, made sacred poles,
and prostrated himself before the whole host of heaven and
worshiped them. He even built altars in the temple of the LORD, of
which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be
forever": he built altars to the whole host of heaven in the
two courts of the LORD'S house. It was he, too, who immolated his
sons by fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced augury,
divination and magic, and appointed necromancers and diviners of
spirits, so that he provoked the LORD with the great evil that he
did in his sight.
[2CHRON 33:1-6]
Divination, omens and dreams all are unreal;
what you already expect, the mind depicts. Unless it be a vision
specially sent by the Most High, fix not your heart on it; For
dreams have led many astray, and those who believed in them have
perished. [SIRACH 34:5-7]
You have abandoned your people, the house of
Jacob, Because they are filled with fortunetellers and
soothsayers, like the Philistines; they covenant with strangers.
[ISA 2:6]
See, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud on his
way to Egypt; The idols of Egypt tremble before him, the hearts of
the Egyptians melt within them. I will rouse Egypt against Egypt:
brother will war against brother, Neighbor against neighbor, city
against city, kingdom against kingdom. The courage of the
Egyptians ebbs away within them, and I will bring to nought their
counsel; They shall consult idols and charmers, ghosts and
spirits. I will deliver Egypt into the power of a cruel master, A
harsh king who shall rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of
hosts. [Taken from ISA 19:1-4]
Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, who formed
you from the womb: I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone
stretched out the heavens; when I spread out the earth, who was
with me? It is I who bring to nought the omens of liars, who make
fools of diviners; I turn wise men back and make their knowledge
foolish. [ISA 44:24-25]
But upon you shall come evil you will not know
how to predict; Disaster shall befall you which you cannot allay.
Suddenly there shall come upon you ruin which you will not expect.
Keep up, now, your spells and your many sorceries. Perhaps you can
make them avail, perhaps you can strike terror! You wearied
yourself with many consultations, at which you toiled from your
youth; Let the astrologers stand forth to save you, the stargazers
who forecast at each new moon what would happen to you. Lo, they
are like stubble, fire consumes them; They cannot save themselves
from the spreading flames. This is no warming ember, no fire to
sit before. Thus do your wizards serve you with whom you have
toiled from your youth; Each wanders his own way, with none to
save you. [Taken from ISA 47:11-15]
At that time, says the LORD, the bones of the kings and princes of Judah, the bones of the priests and the prophets, and the bones of the citizens of Jerusalem will be emptied out of their graves and spread out before the sun and the moon and the whole army of heaven, which they loved and served, which they followed, consulted, and worshiped. They will not be gathered up for burial, but will lie like dung upon the ground. Death will be preferred to life by all the survivors of this wicked race who remain in any of the places to which I banish them, says the LORD of hosts.
[JER 8:1-3]
Lies these prophets utter in my name, the LORD
said to me. I did not send them; I gave them no command nor did I
speak to them. Lying visions, foolish divination, dreams of their
own imagination, they prophesy to you. Therefore, thus says the
LORD: Concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, though I
did not send them; who say, "Sword and famine shall not
befall this land": by the sword and famine shall these
prophets meet their end. The people to whom they prophesy shall be
cast out into the streets of Jerusalem by famine and the sword. No
one shall bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters,
for I will pour out upon them their own wickedness. [JER 14:14-16]
You, however, must not listen to your prophets,
to your diviners and dreamers, to your soothsayers and sorcerers,
who say to you, "You need not serve the king of
Babylon." For they prophesy lies to you, in order to drive
you far from your land, to make me banish you so that you will
perish. The people that submits its neck to the yoke of the king
of Babylon to serve him I will leave in peace on its own land,
says the LORD, to till it and dwell in it. [JER 27:9-11]
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
Do not let yourselves be deceived by the prophets and diviners who
are among you; do not listen to those among you who dream dreams.
For they prophesy lies to you in my name; I did not send them,
says the LORD. [Taken from JER 29:8-9]
A sword upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, upon
Babylon's people, her princes and wise men! A sword upon the
soothsayers, that they may become fools! A sword upon her
warriors, that they may tremble; A sword upon her motley throng,
that they may become women! A sword upon her treasures, that they
may be plundered; A sword upon her waters, that they may dry up!
For it is a land of idols, and they shall be made frantic by
fearful things. [Taken from JER 50:35-38]
Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of
man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel:
"The days drag on, and no vision ever comes to
anything"? Say to them therefore: Thus says the Lord GOD: I
will put an end to this proverb; they shall never quote it again
in Israel. Rather, say to them: The days are at hand, and also the
fulfillment of every vision. Whatever I speak is final, and it
shall be done without further delay. In your days, rebellious
house, whatever I speak I will bring about, says the Lord GOD.
There shall no longer be any false visions or deceitful
divinations within the house of Israel, because it is I, the LORD,
who will speak. Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of man,
listen to the house of Israel saying, "The vision he sees is
a long way off; he prophesies of the distant future!" Say to
them therefore: Thus says the Lord GOD: None of my words shall be
delayed any longer; whatever I speak is final, and it shall be
done, says the Lord GOD. [EZEK 12:21-28]
Thus the word of the LORD came to me: Son of
man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, prophesy! Say to
those who prophesy their own thought: Hear the word of the LORD:
You did not step into the breach, nor did you build a wall about
the house of Israel that would stand firm against attack on the
day of the LORD. Was not the vision you saw false, and your
divination lying? Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you
have spoken falsehood and have seen lying visions, therefore see!
I am coming at you, says the Lord GOD. For the very reason that
they led my people astray, saying, "Peace!" when there
was no peace, and that, as one built a wall, they would cover it
with whitewash, say then to the whitewashers: I will bring down a
flooding rain; hailstones shall fall, and a storm wind shall break
out. And when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked: Where is
the whitewash you spread on? Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: In
my fury I will let loose storm winds; because of my anger there
shall be a flooding rain, and hailstones shall fall with
destructive wrath. I will tear down the wall that you have
whitewashed and level it to the ground, laying bare its
foundations. When it falls, you shall be crushed beneath it; thus
you shall know that I am the LORD. When I have spent my fury on
the wall and its whitewashers, I tell you there shall be no wall,
nor shall there be whitewashers - those prophets of Israel who
prophesied to Jerusalem and saw for it visions of peace when there
was no peace, says the Lord GOD. [EZEK 13:1-2,5,7-8,10-16]
Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to those prophets
who are fools, who follow their own spirit and have seen no
vision. Like foxes among ruins are your prophets, O Israel! Their
visions are false and their divination lying. They say, "Thus
says the LORD!" though the LORD did not send them; then they
wait for him to fulfill their word! But I will stretch out my hand
against the prophets who have false visions and who foretell lies.
They shall not belong to the community of my people, nor be
recorded in the register of the house of Israel, nor enter the
land of Israel; thus you shall know that I am the LORD. [EZEK 13:3-4,6,9]
Now, son of man, turn toward the daughters of
your people who prophesy their own thoughts; against these,
prophesy: Thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have disheartened
the upright man with lies when I did not wish him grieved, and
have encouraged the wicked man not to turn from his evil conduct
and save his life; therefore you shall no longer see false visions
and practice divination, but I will rescue my people from your
power. Thus you shall know that I am the LORD. [EZEK 13:17,22-23]
As for you, son of man, prophesy: Thus says the
Lord GOD against the Ammonites and their insults: A sword, a sword
is drawn for slaughter, burnished to consume and to flash
lightning, because you planned with false visions and lying
divinations to lay it on the necks of depraved and wicked men
whose day has come when their crimes are at an end. Return it to
its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of
your origin, I will judge you. I will pour out my indignation upon
you, breathing my fiery wrath upon you, I will hand you over to
ravaging men, artisans of destruction. You shall be fuel for the
fire, your blood shall flow throughout the land. You shall not be
remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken. [EZEK 21:33-37]
Her prophets cover them with whitewash,
pretending to visions that are false and performing lying
divinations, saying, "Thus says the Lord GOD," although
the LORD has not spoken. [EZEK 22:28]
The king asked Daniel, whose name was
Belteshazzar, "Can you tell me the dream that I had, and its
meaning?" In the king's presence Daniel made this reply:
"The mystery about which the king has inquired, the wise men,
enchanters, magicians, and astrologers could not explain to the
king. But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he
has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what is to happen in days to come;
this was the dream you saw as you lay in bed." [Taken from
DAN 2:26-28]
I will abolish the means of divination from your
use, and there shall no longer be soothsayers among you. [MICAH
5:11]
For the teraphim speak nonsense, the diviners
have false visions: Deceitful dreams they tell, empty comfort they
offer. This is why they wander like sheep, wretched: they have no
shepherd. [ZECH 10:2]
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