Deuteronomy 18:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

A charmer - i. e., one who fascinates and subdues noxious animals or men, such as the famous serpent-charmers of the East Psalms 58:4-5.

A consulter with familiar spirits ... a wizard - Compare Leviticus 19:31 note.

Recromancer - literally, “one who interrogates the dead.” The purpose of the text is obviously to group together all the known words belonging to the practices in question. Compare 2 Chronicles 33:6.

Deuteronomy 18:11

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.