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Sorcery

 

SORCERY ;

(Divination by an alleged assistance of evil spirits)

Forbidden - Le 19:26-28,31; 20:6; De 18:9-14

Denounced - Isa 8:19; Mal 3:5

Practiced

• By the Egyptians
- Isa 19:3,11,12
• By the magicians
- Ex 7:11,22; 8:7,18
• By Balaam
- Nu 22:6; 23:23; with 22; 23
• By Jezebel
- 2Ki 9:22
• By the Ninevites
- Na 3:4,5
• By the Babylonians
- Isa 47:9-13; Eze 21:21,22; Da 2:2,10,27
• By Belshazzar
- Da 5:7,15
• By Simon the Sorcerer (Magus)
- Ac 8:9; 11
• By Elymas (Bar-Jesus)
- Ac 13:8
• By the girl at Philippi
- Ac 16:16
• By charlatan Jews
- Ac 19:13
• By sons of Sceva
- Ac 19:14,15
• By astrologers
- Jer 10:2; Mic 3:6,7
• By false prophets
- Jer 14:14; 27:9; 29:8,9; Eze 13:6-9; 22:28; Mt 24:24

To cease - Eze 12:23,24; 13:23; Mic 5:12

Messages of, false - Eze 21:29; Zec 10:2; 2Th 2:9

Diviners will be confounded - Mic 3:7

Belongs to the works of the flesh - Ga 5:20

Wickedness of - 1Sa 15:23

Vainness of - Isa 44:25

Punishment for - Ex 22:18; Le 20:27; De 13:5

Divining by familiar spirits (mediums or spiritists) - Le 20:27; 1Ch 10:13; 2Ch 33:6; Isa 8:19; 19:3; 29:4

By entrails - Eze 21:21

By images - 2Ki 23:24; Eze 21:21

By rods - Ho 4:12

Saul consulted the Witch of Endor - 1Sa 28:7-25

Books of, destroyed - Ac 19:19

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