Nave's Topical Index

Sorcery

(Divination by an alleged assistance of evil spirits)

Forbidden—Le 19:26-28,31; 20:6; De 18:9-14

Denounced—Isa 8:19; Mal 3:5

Practiced

By the Egyptians
—Isa 19:3,11,12
By the magicians
—Ex 7:11,22; 8:7,18
By Balaam
—Nu 22:6; 23:23; with 22; 23
By Jezebel
—2Ki 9:22
By the Ninevites
—Na 3:4,5
By the Babylonians
—Isa 47:9-13; Eze 21:21,22; Da 2:2,10,27
By Belshazzar
—Da 5:7,15
By Simon the Sorcerer (Magus)
—Ac 8:9; 11
By Elymas (Bar-Jesus)
—Ac 13:8
By the girl at Philippi
—Ac 16:16
By charlatan Jews
—Ac 19:13
By sons of Sceva
—Ac 19:14,15
By astrologers
—Jer 10:2; Mic 3:6,7
By false prophets
—Jer 14:14; 27:9; 29:8,9; Eze 13:6-9; 22:28; Mt 24:24

To cease—Eze 12:23,24; 13:23; Mic 5:12

Messages of, false—Eze 21:29; Zec 10:2; 2Th 2:9

Diviners will be confounded—Mic 3:7

Belongs to the works of the flesh—Ga 5:20

Wickedness of—1Sa 15:23

Vainness of—Isa 44:25

Punishment for—Ex 22:18; Le 20:27; De 13:5

Divining by familiar spirits (mediums or spiritists)—Le 20:27; 1Ch 10:13; 2Ch 33:6; Isa 8:19; 19:3; 29:4

By entrails—Eze 21:21

By images—2Ki 23:24; Eze 21:21

By rods—Ho 4:12

Saul consulted the Witch of Endor—1Sa 28:7-25

Books of, destroyed—Ac 19:19