Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Divine - Compare to I Samuel 6:2, note; Numbers 23:23, note.
Bring me him up - The art of the ventriloquist seems to have been always connected with necromancy. The Greeks had necromancers who called up departed spirits to give answers to those who consulted them.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Samuel 28:8:
Leviticus 19:31
Isaiah 8:19
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