1 Samuel 28:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then Samuel said, Why do you ask me, seeing the LORD has departed from you and has become your enemy?

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  • Judg 5:31 : 31 So let all your enemies perish, O LORD; but let those who love Him be as the sun when it comes out in its strength. And the land had rest for forty years.
  • 2 Kgs 6:27 : 27 And he said, If the LORD does not help you, how shall I help you? from the threshing floor, or from the winepress?
  • Ps 68:1-3 : 1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him. 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. 3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yes, let them exceedingly rejoice.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord was like an enemy: He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces: He has destroyed His strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
  • Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.
  • Rev 18:24-19:6 : 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth. 1 And after these things I heard a great voice of a multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, to the Lord our God: 2 For true and righteous are His judgments: for He has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Hallelujah. And her smoke rose up forever and ever. 4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah. 5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you His servants, and you that fear Him, both small and great. 6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord God omnipotent reigns.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 28:15
    83%

    15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am in great distress; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me and does not answer me anymore, neither by prophets nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.

  • 1 Sam 28:17-19
    3 verses
    81%

    17 The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me: for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, to David.

    18 Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, nor execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you today.

    19 Moreover, the LORD will also deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines. Tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me: the LORD will also deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 15:26-28
    3 verses
    78%

    26 And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you: for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.

    27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it tore.

    28 And Samuel said to him, The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

  • 1 Sam 13:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: for now the LORD would have established your kingdom upon Israel forever.

    14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: the LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him to be captain over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.

  • 1 Sam 13:11
    74%

    11 And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines gathered at Michmash,

  • 1 Sam 18:12
    74%

    12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and had departed from Saul.

  • 1 Sam 16:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

    15 And Saul's servants said to him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.

  • 1 Sam 15:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night. And he said to him, Speak on.

    17 And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel?

    18 And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.

    19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but flew upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?

  • 1 Sam 15:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10 Then came the word of the LORD to Samuel, saying,

    11 It grieves Me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried to the LORD all night.

    12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a place for himself, and has gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 8:5-7
    3 verses
    73%

    5 And said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

    6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the LORD.

    7 And the LORD said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you: for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

  • 1 Sam 15:35
    73%

    35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 16:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.

    2 And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 28:12
    72%

    12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice, and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul.

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    72%

    1 Samuel also said to Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over His people, over Israel: now therefore listen to the voice of the words of the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 9:15
    72%

    15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,

  • 1 Sam 9:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said to him, Behold the man who I spoke to you of! this same shall reign over my people.

    18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate and said, Tell me, I pray you, where the seer's house is.

    19 And Samuel answered Saul and said, I am the seer: go up before me to the high place; for you shall eat with me today, and tomorrow I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.

  • 1 Sam 15:14
    72%

    14 And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

  • 1 Sam 22:13
    72%

    13 And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

  • 1 Sam 26:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 And he said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? What have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

    19 Now, therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, cursed are they before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.'

  • 1 Sam 24:15
    71%

    15 The LORD therefore be judge and judge between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.

  • 1 Sam 15:23
    71%

    23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has also rejected you from being king.

  • 1 Sam 14:37
    71%

    37 Saul inquired of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But He did not answer him that day.

  • 1 Sam 9:27
    71%

    27 And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand still a while, that I may show you the word of God.

  • Jer 15:1
    71%

    1 Then the LORD said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

  • Hos 13:10
    70%

    10 I will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?

  • 1 Chr 10:14
    70%

    14 And he did not inquire of the LORD. Therefore He killed him and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

  • 1 Sam 8:10
    70%

    10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked of him a king.

  • 1 Sam 3:10
    70%

    10 And the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for your servant hears.

  • 1 Sam 28:6
    70%

    6 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

  • 1 Sam 28:3
    70%

    3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had expelled those with familiar spirits and the wizards from the land.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    70%

    9 And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your harm?

  • 1 Sam 19:17
    69%

    17 And Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me so, and sent away my enemy, so that he has escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill you?

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    69%

    19 And you have this day rejected your God, who Himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, No, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.