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People who claim to be channels through whom the spirits of the dead speak to the living.

God's people must not be mediums

Deuteronomy 18:10-12

God's people must not consult mediums

Isaiah 8:19-20 See also Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6; 2 Kings 23:24; Jeremiah 27:9

Examples of those who turned to mediums

King Saul

1 Samuel 28:3-16; 1 Chronicles 10:13

King Manasseh

2 Kings 21:6 pp 2 Chronicles 33:6

The Egyptians

Isaiah 19:3

See also

1025  God, anger of
1690  word of God
4185  sorcery and magic
4190  spiritism
5288  dead, the
7141  people of God, OT
8021  faith
8460  pleasing God
8754  fear