Bible Verses About Divination
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for divination, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,356 votes, led by Leviticus 19:31. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Divination
Leviticus 19:31127 votes
Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
2 Kings 21:6115 votes
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Deuteronomy 18:9-12114 votes
When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Deuteronomy 18:9-1486 votes
When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
Leviticus 19:26-3178 votes
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Leviticus 19:2675 votes
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
Leviticus 20:2774 votes
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:673 votes
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Jeremiah 27:968 votes
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
Daniel 2:2763 votes
Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
Acts 19:1962 votes
Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
2 Kings 17:1761 votes
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
1 Samuel 15:2360 votes
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Isaiah 8:1959 votes
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
2 Kings 9:2258 votes
And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
Acts 16:1656 votes
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
Galatians 5:2056 votes
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Acts 8:9-1354 votes
But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Micah 5:1250 votes
And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Genesis 44:549 votes
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
Exodus 22:1848 votes
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Jeremiah 14:1448 votes
Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
1 Samuel 28:747 votes
Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En–dor.
Deuteronomy 18:1045 votes
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Deuteronomy 18:1443 votes
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
What does the Bible say about divination?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 19:31 on the subject of divination. Across 3,356 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Kings 21:6, Deuteronomy 18:9-12, Deuteronomy 18:9-14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.