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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Samuel 28 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/28.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/28-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > 1 Samuel 28</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/27.htm" title="1 Samuel 27">◄</a> 1 Samuel 28 <a href="../1_samuel/29.htm" title="1 Samuel 29">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/28-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Philistines Gather against Israel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it will be in those days, and the rovers will gather their camps together for war to fight against Israel. And Achish will say to David, Knowing, thou shalt know that with me thou shalt go forth with the camp, thou and thy men. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And David will say to Achish, For this thou shalt know what thy servant will do. And Achish will say to David, For this I will set thee a watcher for my head all the days.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Samuel died, and all Israel will lament for him; and they will bury him in Ramah, and in his city. And Saul took away the necromancers and the wizards from the land. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the rovers will gather together, and will come and encamp in Shunem: and Saul will gather together all Israel, and they will encamp in Gilboa. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Saul will see the camp of the rovers, and he will fear and his heart will tremble greatly. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Saul will ask through Jehovah, and Jehovah answered him not, also in dreams, also in Lights, also in the prophets.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Saul and the Medium of Endor<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Saul will say to his servants, Seek out for me a woman, mistress of necromancy, and I will go to her and inquire of her. And his servants will say to him, Behold, a woman mistress of necromancy in the Fountain of Dor.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Saul will disguise himself, and will put on other garments, and will go, and two men with him, and he will come to the woman by night: and he will say, Divine to me now, by necromancy, and bring up to me whom I say to thee. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the woman will say to him, Behold, thou knewest what Saul did who cut off the necromancers, and the wizards, from the land; wherefore art thou laying snares for my soul to kill me? <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Saul will swear to her by Jehovah, saying, Jehovah lives, if iniquity shall pierce thee upon this word. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the woman will say, Whom shall I bring up to thee? And he will say, Bring up to me Samuel. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the woman will see Samuel, and she will cry out, with a great voice: and the woman will say to Saul, saying, Why didst thou deceive me? and thou Saul. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the king will say to her, Thou shalt not fear: What sawest thou? And the woman will say to Saul, I saw gods coming up out of the earth. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he will say to her, What his form? And she will say, An old man coming up, and he covered with an upper garment. And Saul knew that he Samuel, and he will bow his face to the earth and worship him.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Samuel will say to Saul, Why didst thou disturb me to bring me up? And Saul will say, Distress to me greatly: and the rovers warring against me, and God departed from me, and he answered me no more, also by the hand of the prophets, also by dreams: and I will call to thee to make known to me what I shall do. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Samuel will say, Why wilt thou ask of me, and Jehovah departed from thee and he will be thine enemy? <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Jehovah will do for him as he spake by my hand, and Jehovah will rend the kingdom from thy hand and give it to thy neighbor, to David. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah, and didst not the anger of his wrath against Amalek, for this, Jehovah did this word to thee this day. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Jehovah will give also Israel with thee into the hand of the rovers; and to-morrow thou and thy sons with me, also the camp of Israel Jehovah will give into the hand of the rovers.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Saul will hasten and fall with the fulness of his stature to the earth, and he will fear greatly from the words of Samuel: also strength was not in him, for he ate not bread all the day and all the night. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the woman will come to Saul, and she will see that he trembled greatly, and she will say to him, Behold, thy servant heard to thy voice, and I will put my soul in my hand, and heard thy words which thou spake to me. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And now, hear now, also thou to the voice of thy servant, and I will set before thee a bit of bread; and eat and strength will be in thee that thou shalt go in the way. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he will refuse, and say, I will not eat And his servants will press upon him, and also the woman, and he will hear to their voice. And he will rise up from the earth and sit upon the bed. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And to the woman a calf of the stall in the house; she will haste and sacrifice it, and take flour and knead and bake it unleavened. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/28-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And she will bring near before Saul, and before his servants; and they will eat, and rise and go away in that night.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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