1 Samuel 28:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Seek me a woman, rather than a man; for he thought that sex most likely to be given to those wicked arts, as being the weaker sex, and so aptest to be deceived, and most prone to superstition, and ofttimes most malicious and revengeful. That hath a familiar spirit; one that converseth with the devil, and dead men's ghosts, and by them can discover future things. See Isaiah 8:19. His servants said to him; instead of dissuading him from this wicked and destructive practice, which they should and would have done, if they had either loved God or their king, they further him in it. En-dor; a place in the tribe of Manasseh, within Jordan, not very fir from the place where the armies were encamped.

1 Samuel 28:7

7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.