1 Samuel 28:3
Konteks28:3 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented over him and had buried him in Ramah, his hometown. 1 In the meantime Saul had removed the mediums 2 and magicians 3 from the land.
1 Samuel 28:1
Konteks28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops 4 for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” 5
Kisah Para Rasul 14:5
Konteks14:5 When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made 6 an attempt to mistreat 7 them and stone them, 8
[28:3] 1 tn Heb “in Ramah, even in his city.”
[28:3] 2 tn The Hebrew term translated “mediums” actually refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits (see 2 Kgs 21:6). In v. 7 the witch of Endor is called the owner of a ritual pit. See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401. Here the term refers by metonymy to the owner of such a pit (see H. A. Hoffner, TDOT 1:133).
[28:3] 3 sn See Isa 8:19 for another reference to magicians who attempted to conjure up underworld spirits.
[28:1] 4 tn Heb “their camps.”
[28:1] 5 tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran
[14:5] 6 tn Grk “So there came about an attempt” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
[14:5] 7 tn On this verb see BDAG 1022 s.v. ὑβρίζω.
[14:5] 8 tn The direct object “them” is repeated after both verbs in the translation for stylistic reasons, although it occurs only after λιθοβολῆσαι (liqobolhsai) in the Greek text.