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First Book of Samuel, Chapter 28

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1 Samuel 28 NWT - New World Translation1 Samuel 28 NWT - New World Translation

Chapter 28 of 1 Samuel—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ And it came about in those days that the Phi·lisʹtines began to collect their camps for the army to make war against Israel.1 So Aʹchish said to David: “You undoubtedly know that it is with me that you should go out into the camp, you and your men.”2
  2. At that David said to Aʹchish: “That is why you yourself[a] know what your servant is to do.” Accordingly Aʹchish said to David: “That is why guardian of my head I shall appoint you always.”3
  3. ¶ Now Samuel himself had died, and all Israel had proceeded to bewail him and bury him in Raʹmah his own city.4 As for Saul, he had removed the spirit mediums[b] and the professional foretellers of events from the land.5
  4. ¶ Subsequently the Phi·lisʹtines collected together and came and pitched camp in Shuʹnem.6 So Saul collected all Israel together and they pitched camp in Gil·boʹa.7
  5. When Saul got to see the camp of the Phi·lisʹtines he became afraid, and his heart began to tremble very much.8
  6. Although Saul would inquire of Jehovah,9 Jehovah never answered him,10 either by dreams11 or by the Uʹrim12 or by the prophets.13
  7. Finally Saul said to his servants: “Seek for me a woman who is a mistress of spirit mediumship,14 and I will go to her and consult her.” Then his servants said to him: “Look! There is a woman who is a mistress of spirit mediumship in En-dor.”15
  8. ¶ So Saul disguised16 himself and clothed himself with other garments and went, he and two men with him; and they came to the woman by night.17 He now said: “Employ divination,18 please, for me by spirit mediumship and bring up for me the one whom I shall designate to you.”
  9. However, the woman said to him: “Here you yourself well know what Saul did, how he cut off the spirit mediums and the professional foretellers of events from the land.19 Why, then, are you acting like a trapper against my soul to have me put to death?”20
  10. Immediately Saul swore to her by Jehovah, saying: “As Jehovah is alive,21 guilt for error will not befall you in this matter!”
  11. At this the woman said: “Whom shall I bring up for you?” To this he said: “Bring up Samuel for me.”22
  12. When the woman saw “Samuel”23 she began crying out at the top of her voice;[c] and the woman went on to say to Saul: “Why did you trick me, when you yourself are Saul?”
  13. But the king said to her: “Do not be afraid, but what did you see?” And the woman went on to say to Saul: “A god[d]24 I saw coming up out of the earth.”
  14. At once he said to her: “What is his form?” to which she said: “It is an old[e] man coming up, and he has himself covered with a sleeveless coat.”25 At that Saul recognized that it was “Samuel,”26 and he proceeded to bow low with his face to the earth and to prostrate himself.
  15. ¶ And “Samuel” began to say to Saul: “Why have you disturbed me by having me brought up?”27 To this Saul said: “I am in very sore straits,28 as the Phi·lisʹtines are fighting against me, and God[f] himself has departed29 from me and has answered me no more, either by means of the prophets or by dreams;30 so that I am calling you to let me know what I shall do.”31
  16. ¶ And “Samuel” went on to say: “Why, then, do you inquire of me, when Jehovah himself has departed from you32 and proves to be your adversary?[g]33
  17. And Jehovah will do for himself[h] just as he spoke by means of me, and Jehovah will rip the kingdom away from your hand34 and give it to your fellowman David.35
  18. As you did not obey the voice of Jehovah,36 and you did not execute his burning anger against Amʹa·lek,37 that is why this is the thing that Jehovah will certainly do to you this day.
  19. And Jehovah will also give Israel with you into the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines,38 and tomorrow you39 and your sons40 will be with me.[i] Even the camp of Israel Jehovah will give into the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines.”41
  20. ¶ At that Saul quickly fell down his full length to the earth and became very much afraid because of “Samuel’s” words. Also, there happened to be no power in him, because he had not eaten food the whole day and the whole night.
  21. The woman now came to Saul and saw that he had been greatly disturbed. So she said to him: “Here your maidservant has obeyed your voice, and I proceeded to put my soul in my palm42 and obey the words that you spoke to me.
  22. And now, please, you, in turn, obey the voice of your maidservant; and let me set before you a piece of bread, and you eat, that power may come to be in you, because you will go on your way.”
  23. But he refused and said: “I am not going to eat.” However, his servants and also the woman kept urging him. Finally he obeyed their voice and rose up from the earth and sat on the couch.
  24. Now the woman had a fattened calf43 in the house. So she quickly sacrificed[j] it44 and took flour and kneaded dough and baked it into unfermented cakes.
  25. Then she served them to Saul and his servants, and they ate. After that they rose up and went away during that night.45

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “Yourself,” MSy; LXXVg, “now.”
  2. ^ “Spirit mediums.” Human agents used as a vessel for a demon of divination. LXX, “ventriloquists”; Lat., maʹgos, “astrologers.” See Ac 16:16.
  3. ^ Lit., “with a great voice.”
  4. ^ “A god.” Heb., ʼelo·himʹ, pl., evidently to denote excellence and applying to an individual even though the verb “coming” is pl., for the woman saw only the form of an old man come up. See 5:7 ftn.
  5. ^ “Old,” MSyVg; LXXItLegionensis(margin), “erect.”
  6. ^ “And God.” Heb., wEʼ·lo·himʹ, pl. to denote excellence, with the sing. verb “has departed.”
  7. ^ “Your adversary,” MVg; LXXSy, “with your fellowman (neighbor).”
  8. ^ “For himself,” M; LXXVg and five Heb. mss, “to you.”
  9. ^ According to MSyVg; LXX, “tomorrow you and your sons with you will fall.”
  10. ^ “Sacrificed,” MLXX.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Jg 3:2; 1Sa 14:52
  2. ^ 1Sa 27:12; 29:3
  3. ^ 1Sa 29:2
  4. ^ 1Sa 25:1; Is 57:1
  5. ^ Ex 22:18; Le 19:31; 20:6, 27; De 18:11; Re 21:8
  6. ^ Jos 19:18; 1Ki 1:3; 2Ki 4:8; Sg 6:13
  7. ^ 1Sa 31:1; 2Sa 1:21; 21:12
  8. ^ De 28:20; 1Sa 28:20; Pr 10:24; Is 57:21
  9. ^ 1Sa 14:37; 1Ch 10:14
  10. ^ Pr 1:28; 28:9; Is 1:15; Eze 20:3; Mc 3:4
  11. ^ Nu 12:6; Mt 1:20
  12. ^ Ex 28:30; Nu 27:21; De 33:8
  13. ^ Ps 74:9; La 2:9
  14. ^ Ex 22:18; Le 19:31; 20:6; 1Sa 15:23; 28:3; Is 8:19; Heb 3:12
  15. ^ Jos 17:11; Ps 83:10
  16. ^ 1Ki 14:2; 22:30
  17. ^ 1Sa 28:25
  18. ^ De 18:10; 1Ch 10:13; Is 8:19
  19. ^ 1Sa 28:3
  20. ^ Ex 22:18; Le 20:27
  21. ^ 1Sa 14:39; Is 48:1; Je 44:26
  22. ^ Ro 1:28
  23. ^ 1Sa 28:3; Ps 146:4; Ec 9:5; 2Co 4:4; 11:14
  24. ^ Ps 82:6; Jn 10:34
  25. ^ 1Sa 15:27
  26. ^ 2Th 2:10, 11
  27. ^ 2Sa 12:23; Ps 115:17; 146:4; Ec 9:5, 10
  28. ^ Pr 14:14; Je 2:17; Ga 6:7
  29. ^ 1Sa 15:23
  30. ^ 1Sa 28:6
  31. ^ Le 19:31
  32. ^ 1Sa 15:23; 16:14; 2Ki 6:27
  33. ^ De 28:15
  34. ^ 1Sa 13:14; 15:28
  35. ^ 1Sa 16:13; 24:20
  36. ^ 1Sa 13:11; 1Ch 10:13
  37. ^ 1Sa 15:9; Je 48:10
  38. ^ 1Sa 12:25; 28:1; 31:1
  39. ^ 1Sa 31:5
  40. ^ 1Sa 31:2; 2Sa 2:8
  41. ^ 1Sa 31:7
  42. ^ Le 20:27; Jg 12:3; 1Sa 19:5; Jb 13:14
  43. ^ Ge 18:7; Lu 15:23
  44. ^ De 12:15
  45. ^ 1Sa 28:8

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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