THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
The Lord did not respond to him through visions or manifestations. The Lord did not respond to him through visions or manifestations.
1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 28:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.
וַיִּשְׁאַ֤ל שָׁאוּל֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה וְלֹ֥א עָנָ֖הוּ יְהוָ֑ה גַּ֧ם בַּחֲלֹמ֛וֹת גַּ֥ם בָּאוּרִ֖ים גַּ֥ם בַּנְּבִיאִֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Sam 14:37And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he answered him not that day.
- Num 12:6He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.
- Lam 2:9Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed, and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
- Num 27:21If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.
- Jas 4:3You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
- Matt 1:20But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.
- John 9:31Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.
- Ezek 20:1And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month: there came men of the ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.