King James Bible Dictionary

Divination by an alleged assistance of evil spirits.

Forbidden
Leviticus 19:26-28; Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6; Deuteronomy 18:9-14

Denounced
Isaiah 8:19; Malachi 3:5

Practiced:

By the Egyptians
Isaiah 19:3; Isaiah 19:11-12

By the magicians
Exodus 7:11; Exodus 7:22; Exodus 8:7; Exodus 8:18

By Balaam
Exodus 4:22

By Jezebel
2 Kings 9:22

By the Ninevites
Nahum 3:4-5

By the Babylonians
Isaiah 47:9-13; Ezekiel 21:21-22; Daniel 2:2; Daniel 2:10; Daniel 2:27

By Belshazzar
Daniel 5:7; Daniel 5:15

By Simon Magus
Acts 8:9; Acts 8:11

By Elymas
Acts 13:8

By the damsel at Philippi
Acts 16:16

By vagabond Jews
Acts 19:13

By sons of Sceva
Acts 19:14-15

By astrologers
Jeremiah 10:2; Micah 3:6-7

By false prophets
Jeremiah 14:14; Jeremiah 27:9; Jeremiah 29:8-9; Ezekiel 13:6-9; Ezekiel 22:28; Matthew 24:24

To cease
Ezekiel 12:23-24; Ezekiel 13:23; Micah 5:12

Messages of, false
Ezekiel 21:29; Zech 10:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:9

Diviners shall be confounded
Micah 3:7

Belongs to the works of the flesh
Galatians 5:20

Wickedness of
1 Samuel 15:23

Vainness of
Isaiah 44:25

Punishment for
Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 13:5

Divining by:

Familiar spirits
Leviticus 20:27; 1 Chronicles 10:13; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 19:3; Isaiah 29:4

Entrails
Ezekiel 21:21

Images
2 Kings 23:24; Ezekiel 21:21

Rods
Hosea 4:12

Saul consulted the witch of En-Dor
1 Samuel 28:7-25

Books of, destroyed
Acts 19:19

SOR'CERY, noun Magic; enchantment; witchcraft; divination be the assistance of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits. Adder's wisdom I have learn'd to fence my ears against the sorceries.