Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 28:7
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1 Samuel28:7
7 ¶ Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit , that I may go to her, and enqui[illegible: 1+ letters]e of her. And his servants said to him , Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor .
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 oft times most malicious and revengeful.
One that converseth with the Devil, and dead mens Ghosts, and by them can discover future things. See Isa. 8. 19.
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.
A place in the Tribe of Manasseh, within Iordan, not very far from the place where the Armies were encamped.
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