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Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 8:19

Seek: Isaiah 19:3, Leviticus 20:6, Deuteronomy 18:11, 1 Samuel 28:8, 1 Chronicles 10:13, 2 Chronicles 33:6 that peep: Isaiah 29:4 should not: 1 Samuel 28:16, 2 Kings 1:3, 2 Peter 2:1 for the living: Psalms 106:28, Jeremiah 10:10, 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Reciprocal: Genesis 40:8 - Do not Genesis 41:8 - the magicians of Egypt Leviticus 19:31 - General Deuteronomy 18:10 - that useth divination Judges 18:14 - now therefore 1 Samuel 15:23 - witchcraft 1 Samuel 28:7 - Seek me 2 Kings 17:17 - used 2... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 8:19

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?And when they — The Israelites, who are fallen from God, into superstition and idolatry.You — My children, whom the prophet arms against the common temptation.Mutter — That speak with a low voice, as these two words signify, which they affected to do, speaking rather inwardly in their bellies, than audibly... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 8:19

19. Distrusting Jehovah, and afraid of Assyria, some of the people were resorting to sorcerers for counsel. The blended folly and impiety of this our prophet now exposes. Familiar spirits These were necromancers, conjurers, supposed to be able to call up the dead, who could give information of the future world or future events. Obhath is the plural of a word meaning hollow, and in its secondary or concrete tropical sense it means the conjurers themselves evoking, as with ventriloquising... read more

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