"Witch of Endor In the Hebrew Bible, the Witch of Endor is a woman who summons the prophet Samuel's spirit, at the demand of King Saul of the Kingdom of Israel in the 28th chapter of the ""First Book of Samuel"". The witch is absent from the version of that event recounted in the deuterocanonical ""Book of Sirach"" (46:19–20). She is called in Biblical Hebrew אֵ֥שֶׁת בַּֽעֲלַת־אֹ֖וב בְּעֵ֥ין דֹּֽור (""’êšeṯ ba‘ălaṯ-’ōḇ bə-‘Êndōr""), ""a woman, possessor of an ""’ōḇ"" at Endor"". The word אֹ֖וב ""’ōḇ"" has been suggested by Harry Hoffner to refer to a ritual pit for summoning the dead"
"of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite."" Jael gave him drink, covered him with a blanket, and when, exhausted from battle, Sisera slept, Jael picked up a tent peg and a hammer and drove the peg into his temple all the way into the ground and he died. The Witch of Endor is a woman who summons the prophet Samuel's spirit, at the demand of King Saul of the Kingdom of Israel in the 28th chapter of the ""First Book of Samuel"". Saul, the current King of Israel, seeks wisdom from God in choosing a course of action"
"king goes to consult the Witch of Endor. The medium, unaware of his identity, reminds him that the king has made witchcraft a capital offence, but he assures her that Saul will not harm her. She conjures the spirit of the prophet Samuel, who before his death had prophesied that Saul would lose the kingdom. The shade of Samuel tells the king that God will no longer hear his prayers and that the next day he will lose both the battle and his life. Saul collapses in fear, and the medium restores him with food. In Book VI, the Philistines"
"the deceased was summoned hears the voice but fails to see anything. Antoine Augustin Calmet briefly mentioned the witch of Endor in his ""Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires ou les revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c."" (1759): The Church Fathers and some modern Christian writers have debated the theological issues raised by this text. The story of King Saul and the Witch of Endor would appear at first sight to affirm that it is possible (though forbidden) for humans to summon the spirits of the dead by magic. In the Septuagint (2nd century BC) the"
"the death penalty to practitioners of necromancy (), this warning was not always heeded. One of the foremost examples is when King Saul had the Witch of Endor invoke the Spirit of Samuel, a judge and prophet, from Sheol using a ritual conjuring pit (). However, the so-called witch was shocked at the presence of the real spirit of Samuel for in I Sam 28:12 it says, ""when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice."" Samuel questioned his reawakening asking, ""Why hast thou disquieted me?"" Saul did not receive a death penalty (his being the highest"
"(Exodus 22:17). Judaism's most famous reference to a medium is undoubtedly the Witch of Endor whom Saul consults, as recounted in 1 Samuel 28. Divination, and magic in Islam, encompass a wide range of practices, including black magic, warding off the evil eye, the production of amulets and other magical equipment, evocation, casting lots, and astrology. Muslims do commonly believe in magic (""sihr"") and explicitly forbid its practice. ""Sihr"" translates from Arabic as sorcery or black magic. The best known reference to magic in Islam is surah al-Falaq of the Qur'an, which is known as a prayer to God to"
"Saul threw a javelin close past his head in frustration. Saul summons David to court again as both Michal and Merab express their faith that God will protect David. Jonathan tries to explain to Saul why David has not responded to his summons. Saul rages against both David and Jonathan. In despair, and though aware it is unlawful, Saul asks the Witch of Endor to raise the ghost of Samuel the prophet. Asked for advice, the ghost of Samuel reminds Saul that he had once predicted his downfall for sparing the king of the Amalekites whom Samuel had ordered killed."
"no legitimate northern king to address"". A different Oded is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 15, as being the father of the prophet Azariah. Oded (prophet) Oded is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned in 2 Chronicles 28. He was from Samaria, and met the army of the northern kingdom of Israel, who were returning with captives from Judah. In a speech from verse 9 to verse 11, he urged them to return the slaves. He was joined in this plea by some of the Samaritan leaders, and it was successful. William Schniedewind notes that Oded is the only prophet"
"angels. The archangels' names all include ""-el"", such as ""Uriel"" ('flame of God') and ""Michael"" ('who is like God'). Another name is given as ""Gadreel"", who is said to have tempted Eve; Schmidt lists the name as meaning 'the helper of God.' Book of Enoch The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ ""mets’iḥāfe hēnoki"") is an ancient Jewish religious work, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) of the text are estimated to date from about 300 BCE, and the latest part (Book of Parables)"
"heavenly journey during which they learned cosmic and divine secrets. Figures familiar to Jews would have included Enoch (from the Book of Genesis and a popular non-Biblical work called 1 Enoch); the 5th-century sage Ezra; Baruch the companion of the prophet Jeremiah (from a work called 2 Baruch, in which Baruch is promised he will ascend to heaven after 40 days); Levi the ancestor of priests; the Teacher of Righteousness from the Qumran community; the prophet Elijah (from 2 Kings); Moses, who was deified on entering heaven; and the children of Job, who according to the Testament of Job ascended"
"Jonah Jonah or Jonas is the name given in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE. He is the eponymous central figure of the Book of Jonah, in which he is called upon by God to travel to Nineveh and warn its residents to repent of their sins or face divine wrath. Instead, Jonah boards a ship to Tarshish. Caught in a storm, he orders the ship's crew to cast him overboard, whereupon he is swallowed by a giant fish. Three days later, after Jonah agrees to"
"Simeon and Anna. Anna the Prophetess Anna (, ) or Anna the Prophetess is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in during the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. The passage mentioning Anna is as follows: From these three verses in Luke, the following is known of Anna: Luke describes Anna as ""very old"". Many Bibles and older commentaries state that she was 84 years old. The Greek text states καὶ αὐτὴ χήρα"
"Miriam Miriam () is described in the Hebrew Bible as the daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and the sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess and first appears in the Book of Exodus. The Torah refers to her as ""Miriam the Prophetess"" and the Talmud names her as one of the seven major female prophets of Israel. Scripture describes her alongside of Moses and Aaron as delivering the Jews from exile in Egypt: ""For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses,"
"Selaphiel Saint Selaphiel the Archangel or Saint Sealtiel, Selatiel (Aramaic צלתיאל ""Tzelathiel"" ""Prayer of God"", Heb. שאלתיאל ""Shealtiel""), sometimes identified with Salathiel from the Second Book of Esdras. He is one of the seven archangels in the Byzantine Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. Selaphiel appears in verse 31:6 of the apocryphal Jewish and Christian text ""The Conflict of Adam and Eve"", which describes how God sends him and Suriyel to help rescue Adam and Eve from Satan’s deception, commanding Selaphiel “to bring them down from the top of the high mountain and to take them to the Cave of Treasures.”"
"Anna the Prophetess Anna (, ) or Anna the Prophetess is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. According to that Gospel, she was an elderly woman of the Tribe of Asher who prophesied about Jesus at the Temple of Jerusalem. She appears in during the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. The passage mentioning Anna is as follows: From these three verses in Luke, the following is known of Anna: Luke describes Anna as ""very old"". Many Bibles and older commentaries state that she was 84 years old. The Greek text states καὶ αὐτὴ χήρα ὡς ἐτῶν ὀγδοηκοντατεσσάρων,"
"Pethor Pethor or Petor is identified in the Hebrew Bible as the home of the prophet (or diviner) Balaam, near to the Euphrates River (literally, the River). According to the Book of Numbers, Balak, the king of Moab, sent messengers to Pethor to meet with Balaam in order to elicit a curse upon the Israelite people who had left Egypt and were approaching Moab to occupy the land. Balaam required the messengers to stay overnight in Pethor and to await his response until the next morning. In Deuteronomy, Baalam is described as ""Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of"
"Huldah Huldah () was a prophet mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in and . According to Jewish tradition, she was one of the ""seven prophetesses"", with Sarah, Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, and Esther. After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon's Temple, on the order of King Josiah, Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah approach her to seek the Lord's opinion. She was the wife of Shallum, son of Tokhath (also called Tikvah), son of Harhas (also called Hasrah), keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District or Second"
"in the Old Testament. In the New Testament this Enoch prophesies ""to"" ungodly men, that God shall come with His holy ones to judge and convict them (). In early Christianity, use of the Book of Enoch as a divinely inspired text was widespread, since the canon had not yet been established definitively in the Church. Church Fathers such as Justin Martyr, Athenagoras of Athens, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian, and Lactantius all speak highly of Enoch and contain many allusions to the Book of Enoch as well as in some instances advocating explicitly for the use of the"
"Ethiopian eunuch The Ethiopian eunuch is a figure in the New Testament of the Bible. The story of his conversion to Christianity is recounted in Acts 8. Philip the Evangelist was told by an angel to go to the road from Jerusalem to Gaza, and there he met the Ethiopian eunuch, the treasurer of Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians,(Ancient Greek: Κανδάκη), was the Meroitic language term for ""queen"" or possibly ""royal woman"" . He had been to Jerusalem to worship (), and was returning home. The eunuch was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah, and had come"
"Arakiel Arakiel (Aramaic: פלא פקתן, Greek: ‘Αραθάκ Κιμβρά), also spelled Arâkîba, Araqiel, Araqael, Araciel, Arqael, Sarquael, Arkiel or Arkas, is a fallen angel, the second mentioned of the 20 Watcher leaders of the 200 fallen angels in the Book of Enoch, who taught the ""signs of the earth"" (which suggests geomancy) to humans during the days of Jared. Arakiel is also called Aretstikapha (meaning ""world of distortion"" [the combination of ""arets"" + ""kaphah""]) in Chapter 69. His name is generally translated as ""earth of God""; the combination of ""araq""-earth (Babylonian in origin) and ""El""-God. Michael Knibb lists him as a"
"Enêpsigos Enêpsigos (Enêpsigos) is a fallen angel mentioned in the Testament of Solomon who takes three forms as her abode is the moon, and at times is conjured as Kronos. In it, she is said to have been bound by triple-link chains and to have given a prophecy to King Solomon who did not believe the prophecy and then proceeded to rebound her in chains, this time, unbreakable. Enêpsigos is an angel mentioned in the Testament of Solomon 64: 1-7 where King Solomon asked Enêpsigos which angel she was frustrated by. However, Enêpsigos refers to herself as a goddess, replying"
"Turiel Turiel (or Tûrêl; Aramaic: טוריאל; Greek: Τουριήλ) is a fallen Watcher in the ancient apocryphal text known as the Book of Enoch. In later translations, he is one of the 20 leaders of 200 fallen angels, mentioned eighteenth. The name is believed to originate from ""tuwr"" ""rock"" and ""El"" ""God"", meaning ""rock of God"", while the translation taken from M. A. Knibb's work on the Ethiopic Book of Enoch is either ""Mountain of God"" or ""Rock of God"". There is a grimoire called ""The Secret Grimoire of Turiel"" in which the magician is given instructions on how to contact"
"emissary sent to deliver messages of fate. Elisha directly compares Gad to Meshulah. Gad delivers a message to Elisha telling him of the ongoing war in Palestine, and his intents to recruit Elisha. Sacrificing his future, Elisha surrenders to his fate. Elisha - Named after Jewish prophet Elisha who appears in the Old Testament's Book of Kings, and in the New Testament as well. Beggar - Hassidic Literature states how beggars may be prophet Elijah in disguise, visiting earth to offer men who treat him well eternal life. Not only could he be prophet Elijah but the Angel of Death,"
"of the Ascension (Jerusalem)) The cave is considered holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians. Huldah Huldah () was a prophet mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in and . According to Jewish tradition, she was one of the ""seven prophetesses"", with Sarah, Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, and Esther. After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon's Temple, on the order of King Josiah, Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah approach her to seek the Lord's opinion. She was the wife of Shallum, son of Tokhath (also called Tikvah), son of Harhas (also called Hasrah),"
"as one of the earliest prophets, regardless of which view they hold. Enoch (ancestor of Noah) Enoch () is of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible. Enoch was son of Jared and fathered Methuselah. This Enoch is not to be confused with Cain's son Enoch (). The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God. The text reads that Enoch ""walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him"" (), which some Christians interpret as Enoch's entering Heaven alive. Enoch is the subject of many Jewish and"
"receives, and David flees to escape the king's anger. David and Abishai come upon Saul's camp when all are asleep. David takes Saul's spear and water container to show he has been by the king but has not harmed him. He shouts from the hilltop to arouse the camp and pleads for reconciliation, but this is forestalled by the arrival of Samuel, who before dying anoints David the new king of Israel. Saul's jealousy flares again, and David flees with Michal. Saul and Abner prevail upon the Witch of Endor to raise Samuel's spirit from the dead. Saul beseeches Samuel"
"Oded (prophet) Oded is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned in 2 Chronicles 28. He was from Samaria, and met the army of the northern kingdom of Israel, who were returning with captives from Judah. In a speech from verse 9 to verse 11, he urged them to return the slaves. He was joined in this plea by some of the Samaritan leaders, and it was successful. William Schniedewind notes that Oded is the only prophet in the Book of Chronicles who does not address a king. Schniedewind argues that this is because ""in the Chronicler's view there was"
"and also called Enoch the scribe of judgment. The New Testament has three references to Enoch from the lineage of Seth (Luke 3:37, Hebrews 11:5, Jude 1:14–15). Enoch appears in the Book of Genesis of the Pentateuch as the seventh of the ten pre-Deluge Patriarchs. Genesis recounts that each of the pre-Flood Patriarchs lived for several centuries. Genesis 5 provides a genealogy of these ten figures (from Adam to Noah), providing the age at which each fathered the next, and the age of each figure at death. Enoch is considered by many to be the exception, who is said to"
"ghostly apparition of Samuel, called up by the Witch of Endor at King Saul's command. Another is a mention by the Prophet Daniel of those who sleep in the earth rising to either everlasting life or everlasting abhorrence. Early Hebrew views were more concerned with the fate of the nation of Israel as a whole, rather than with individual immortality. A stronger belief in an afterlife for each person developed during the Second Temple period but was contested by various Jewish sects. Pharisees believed that in death, people rest in their graves until they are physically resurrected with the coming"
"fell within the tribal allotments of Manasseh. In , Saul consulted a medium or witch at Endor, who lived in the village, on the evening before the Battle of Gilboa, in which he perished. According to , it was the scene of the rout of Jabin and Sisera after being defeated by Barak and Deborah in . The location of the ancient site of Endor is widely debated and many locations have been suggested. From the biblical accounts, an Endor that is located on the south edge of the Jezreel Valley seems to fit best. The tribal allotments of Manasseh,"
"dead. This is also paralleled by the use of the Akkadian cognate word ""ilu"" ""god"" in a similar fashion. In the Greek Septuagint, she is called ἐγγαστρίμυθος ἐν Αενδωρ ""engastrímythos en Aendōr"", while the Latin Vulgate as ""pythonem in Aendor"", both terms referencing then-contemporary pagan oracles. When Samuel dies, he is buried in Ramah. Saul, the current King of Israel, seeks wisdom from God in choosing a course of action against the assembled forces of the Philistines. He receives no answer from dreams, prophets, or the Urim and Thummim. Having driven out all necromancers and magicians from Israel, Saul searches"
"Metatron Metatron (Hebrew מטטרון) or Mattatron is a character mentioned in a few brief passages in the Aggadah and in mystical Kabbalistic texts within the Rabbinic literature. The name Metatron is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and how the name originated is a matter of debate. In folkloristic tradition, he is the highest of the angels and serves as the celestial scribe or ""recording angel"". In early kabbalah, Metatron is the name Enoch received after his transformation into an angel. In Jewish apocrypha Genesis 5:24 is often cited as evidence of Enoch's bodily ascension into heaven: ""And Enoch walked"
"to him again, but the miracle made no abiding impression on him. Jeroboam offered hospitality to the man of God but this was declined, not out of contempt but in obedience to the command of God. The prophecy is fulfilled in . This ""man of God"" who warned Jeroboam has been equated with a seer named Iddo. The wife of Jeroboam is a character in the Hebrew Bible. She is unnamed in the Masoretic Text, but according to the Septuagint, she was an Egyptian princess called Ano: In 1 Kings 14, Jeroboam's son Abijah gets sick, and he sends his"