1 Samuel 28:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

Samuel said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing Yahweh is departed from you, and is become your adversary?

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  • Judg 5:31 : 31 So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh: But let those who love him be as the sun when he goes forth in his might. The land had rest forty years.
  • 2 Kgs 6:27 : 27 He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress?
  • Ps 68:1-3 : 1 > Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also 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 rejoice with gladness.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
  • Rev 18:20 : 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."
  • Rev 18:24-19:6 : 24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth." 1 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God: 2 for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand." 3 A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever." 4 The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!" 5 A voice came forth from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!" 6 I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

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  • 1 Sam 28:15
    83%

    15Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, 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%

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

    18Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore has Yahweh done this thing to you this day.

    19Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow shall you and your sons be with me: Yahweh will deliver the host of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.

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

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

    27As Samuel turned about to go away, [Saul] laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

    28Samuel said to him, Yahweh 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%

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

    14But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.

  • 1 Sam 13:11
    74%

    11Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

  • 1 Sam 18:12
    74%

    12Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul.

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

    14Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

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

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

    16Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.

    17Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

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

    19Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"

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

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

    11It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

    12Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.

  • 1 Sam 8:5-7
    3 verses
    73%

    5and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

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

    7Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

  • 1 Sam 15:35
    73%

    35Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 16:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.

    2Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 28:12
    72%

    12When 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%

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

  • 1 Sam 9:15
    72%

    15Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

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

    17When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people.

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

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

  • 1 Sam 15:14
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 22:13
    72%

    13Saul 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 inquired 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%

    18He said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

    19Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Yahweh that has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, Go, serve other gods.

  • 1 Sam 24:15
    71%

    15Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.

  • 1 Sam 15:23
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 14:37
    71%

    37Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he didn't answer him that day.

  • 1 Sam 9:27
    71%

    27As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.

  • Jer 15:1
    71%

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

  • Hos 13:10
    70%

    10Where is your king now, that he 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%

    14and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

  • 1 Sam 8:10
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 3:10
    70%

    10Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears.

  • 1 Sam 28:6
    70%

    6When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

  • 1 Sam 28:3
    70%

    3Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 19:17
    69%

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

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    69%

    19but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.