Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageNow Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own hometown. And Saul had driven the mediums and spiritists out of the land.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GNow Shemu'el had died, and all Yisra'el had mourned him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Sha'ul had expelled the mediums and spiritists from the land.
KJV
King James VersionNow Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleNow by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.
Footnotes
This verse is a devastating narrative insertion—two facts placed side by side with no commentary. *Ha'ovot* (אֹבוֹת) and *yid'onim* (יִדְּעֹנִים) are necromantic practitioners: those who consult ancestral spirits and 'knowing ones.' The Torah explicitly forbids both (Deut. 18:10–11). The irony is surgical: Saul has expelled the very practitioners he is about to seek, and Samuel—his only legitimate prophetic channel—is dead. Every legitimate avenue to God has been sealed, mostly by Saul's own hand. FOG preserves the Hebrew categorical terms; FOG Message uses their conventional English equivalents.
