Bible Verses About The Oracle Of Delphi

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

Lists familiar spirits and necromancy among forbidden practices.

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.

Direct prohibition of soothsaying and witchcraft.

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

Forbids seeking familiar spirits and wizards.

Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Directly forbids divination and soothsaying.

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?

Warns against mediums and wizards.

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.

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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.

Rejects the misuse of the word oracle and the perversion of God's words.

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

Mocks enchantments and sorceries.

A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

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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:

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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.

Describes inquiring of a staff for oracles as sinful error.

And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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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.

Shows God dismissing the demand for an oracle.

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.

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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.

Challenges astrologers and prognosticators to save themselves.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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

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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.

Says diviners see lies and give empty consolation.

Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

Speaks of the oracles of God, useful as contrast background.

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.

Challenges false gods to predict the future.

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.

Mentions consulting idols, charmers, mediums, and sorcerers.

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:

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So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

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And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

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And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.

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Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

Warns that diviners deceive the people.

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:

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At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

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

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Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

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And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

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Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

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What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

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And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

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