Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 28:11

11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel .

Whose kindness and compassion to him, as he had formerly experienced, so now he expected it in his deep distress▪ This practice of divination by the dead, or by the Ghosts or Souls of dead Persons, called up by Magical Art, was very usual among all Nations, and from them Saul learned it.