Witchcraft

<p class="default">Topic: WITCHCRAFT

Category: CONCEPT

Text:

-Law concerning,

(Exo.22v18; Lev.19v31; Lev.20v6; Lev.20v27.)

-The Witch of Endor,

(1Sam.28v7-25.)

-Witches destroyed,

(1Sam.28v3,9.)

{See SORCERY.}

Topic: SORCERY

Category: ACTION or PROCESS, CONCEPT

Text:

power over natural forces; black magic, betwitchment, conjuring,

enchantment, incantation, necromancy, witchcraft],

-divination by an alleged assistance of evil spirits.

-Forbidden,

(Lev.19v26-28; Lev.19v31; Lev.20v6; Deut.18v9-14.)

-Denounced,

(Isa.8v19; Mal.3v5.)

-Practiced:

-By the Egyptians,

(Isa.19v3; Isa.19v11-12;)

-by the magicians,

(Exo.7v11; Exo.7v22; Exo.8v7; Exo.8v18;)

-by Balaam.

(Num.22v6; Num.23v23,)

with

(Num.22-23;)

-by Jezebel,

(2Kgs.9v22;)

-by the Ninevites,

(Nah.3v4-5;)

-by the Babylonians,

(Isa.47v9-13; Eze.21v21-22; Dn.2v2,10; Dn.2v27;)

-by Belshazzar,

(Dn.5v7,15;)

-by Simon the Sorcerer [Magus],

(Ac.8v9,11;)

-by Elymas [Bar-Jesus],

(Ac.13v8;)

-by the girl at Philippi,

(Ac.16v16;)

-by charlatan Jews,

(Ac.19v13;)

-by sons of Sceva,

(Ac.19v14-15;)

-by astrologers,

(Jer.10v2; Mic.3v6-7;)

-by false prophets,

(Jer.14v14; Jer.27v9, Jer.29v8-9; Eze.13v6-9; Eze.22v28; Matt.24v24.)

-To cease,

(Eze.12v23-24; Eze.13v23; Mic.5v12.)

-Messages of, false,

(Eze.21v29; Zech.10v2; 2Th.2v9.)

-Diviners will be confounded,

(Mic.3v7.)

-Belongs to the works of the flesh,

(Gal.5v20.)

-Wickedness of,

(1Sam.15v23.)

-Vainness of,

(Isa.44v25.)

-Punishment for,

(Exo.22v18; Lev.20v27; Deut.13v5.)

-Divining by familiar spirits [mediums or spiritists],

(Lev.20v27; 1Chr.10v13; 2Chr.33v6; Isa.8v19; Isa.19v3; Isa.29v4;)

-by entrails,

(Eze.21v21;)

-by images,

(2Kgs.23v24; Eze.21v21;)

-by rods,

(Hos.4v12.)

-Saul consulted the Witch of Endor,

(1Sam.28v7-25.)

-Books of, destroyed,

(Ac.19v19.)</p>