Bible Verses About Pagan Oracles

And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

Uses 'oracle of the Lord' in a judgment context.

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

passage on demonic spirits performing signs.

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

Old Testament warning against wooden oracles

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

Inquiry of mediums and the dead

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

Sacrifices to demons, not God

They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Pagan gods called demons

Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Familiar spirits and necromancers forbidden

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Deceitful spirits and demon teachings

And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:

passage on a spirit of divination.

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Do not learn pagan ways

And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,

Unclean demon in synagogue; nearby context only

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

Diviners tell lies

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

Prohibition of divination

For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

Canaanite divination forbidden

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

False prophet and unclean spirits imagery

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

Cup of demons language

He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

Shows divination by omens and images in a pagan setting.

Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

Astrologers cannot save

Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Do not seek mediums or necromancers

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.