16Samuel said, |Why then do you ask of me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?


In Context

13 The king said to her, |Don't be afraid. For what do you see?| The woman said to Saul, |I see a god coming up out of the earth.|

14 He said to her, |What does he look like?| She said, |An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe.| Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.

15 Samuel said to Saul, |Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?| Saul answered, |I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.|

16 Samuel said, |Why then do you ask of me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?

17 Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.

18 Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you this day.

1 Samuel 28:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

28:16Samuel said, "Why do you consult me, now that the Lord has turned away from you and become your enemy?

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:16Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:16And Samuel said: Why askest thou me, seeing the Lord has departed from thee, and is gone over to thy rival:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:16And Samuel said, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:16And Samuel said, Why then dost thou inquire of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:16And Samuel said, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:16Then said Samuel, Why then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD hath departed from thee, and hath become thy enemy?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:16And Samuel saith, 'And why dost thou ask me, and Jehovah hath turned aside from thee, and is thine enemy?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:16Then said Samuel, Why then do you ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from you, and is become your enemy?