1 Chronicles 10:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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for. In this book the reason; in. Samuel only the event. See App-56.

transgression. disobedience, shown in his faithlessness or defection. Hebrew. ma'al. App-44. Compare 1 Samuel 13:13; 1 Samuel 13:14; 1 Samuel 15:1-9; 1 Samuel 28:7.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. Note it is not Elohim (God).

familiar spirit. See note on Leviticus 19:31.

to enquire. to seek and consult. Hebrew. darash, to seek earnestly. Saul sought thus with the medium, but not with Jehovah.

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1 Chronicles 10:13

13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committede against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;