Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 28:13

13 And the king said unto her, Be not asraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth .

i. e. A god, a Divine Person, Glorious, and full of Majesty and Splendor, exceeding not onely Mortal men, but common Ghosts. She useth the Plural Number, gods, either after the manner of the Hebrew Language, which commonly useth that word of one Person: or, after the Language and Custom of the Heathens. But the whole Coherence shows that it was but one. For Saul desired but one, v. 11. and he enquires, and the Woman answers onely of one, v. 14.

As if it came from the place of the dead.

Marginal references: Or, a god.