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Summary
Saul sees Samuel at Endor.

I Samuel 28:7-20

'''28:7. Saul said to his servants: Seek me a woman that has a divining spirit, and I will go to her, and enquire by her. His servants said to him: There is a woman that has a divining spirit at Endor.'''

28:8. Then he disguised himself: and put on other clothes, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, and he said to her: Divine to me by your divining spirit, and bring me up him whom I shall tell you.

28:9. The woman said to him: Behold you know all that Saul has done, and how he has rooted out the magicians and soothsayers from the land: why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to be put to death?

28:10. Saul swore unto her by the Lord, saying: As the Lord lives, there shall no evil happen to you for this thing.

'''28:11. The woman said to him: Whom shall I bring up to you? He said, Bring me up Samuel.'''

'''28:12. When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and said to Saul: Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul.'''

'''28:13. The king said to her: Fear not: what have you seen? And the woman said to Saul: I saw gods ascending out of the earth.'''

'''28:14. He said to her: What form is he of? She said: An old man comes up, and he is covered with a mantle. Saul understood that it was Samuel, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground, and adored.'''

Understood that it was Samuel. . .It is the more common opinion of the holy fathers, and interpreters, that the soul of Samuel appeared indeed: and not, as some have imagined, an evil spirit in his shape. Not that the power of her magic could bring him thither, but that God was pleased for the punishment of Saul, that Samuel himself should denounce unto him the evils that were falling upon him. See Eccli. 46.23.

'''28:15. Samuel said to Saul: Why have you disturbed my rest, that I should be brought up? Saul said: I am in great distress: for the Philistines fight against me, and God is departed from me, and would not hear me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may show me what I shall do.'''

28:16. Samuel said: Why do you ask me, seeing the Lord has departed from you, and is gone over to your rival?

28:17. For the Lord will do to you as he spoke by me, and he will rend your kingdom out of your hand, and will give it to your neighbor David:

'''28:18. Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord, neither did you execute the wrath of his indignation upon Amalec. Therefore has the Lord done to you what you suffer this day.'''

28:19. The Lord also will deliver Israel with you into the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me: and the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

With me. . .That is, in the state of the dead, and in another world, though not in the same place.

28:20. Forthwith Saul fell all along on the ground; for he was frightened with the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all that day.