1 Samuel 28:6
Good News Translation
and so he asked the LORD what to do. But the LORD did not answer him at all, either by dreams or by the use of Urim and Thummim or by prophets.

New Revised Standard Version
When Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, not by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.

Contemporary English Version
So he asked the LORD what to do. But the LORD would not answer, either in a dream or by a priest or a prophet.

New American Bible
He consulted the LORD; but the LORD gave no answer, neither in dreams nor by Urim nor through prophets.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.

enquired

1 Samuel 14:37 And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he answered him not that day.

1 Chronicles 10:14 And trusted not in the Lord: therefore he slew him, and transferred his kingdom to David the son of Isai.

Proverbs 1:27,28 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me: . . .

Lamentations 2:9 Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed, and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:1-3 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month: there came men of the ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me. . . .

John 9:31 Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.

James 4:3 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

by dreams

Genesis 28:12-15 And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it. . . .

Genesis 46:2-4 He heard him, by a vision in the night, calling him, and saying to him: Jacob, Jacob. And he answered him: Lo, here I am. . . .

Numbers 12:6 He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

Job 33:14-16 God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time. . . .

Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?

Matthew 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.

by Urim

Exodus 28:20 In the fourth a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl. They shall be set in gold by their rows.

Numbers 27:21 If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.

Deuteronomy 33:8 To Levi also he said: Thy perfection, and thy doctrine be to thy holy man, whom thou hast proved in the temptation, and judged at the waters of contradiction:

by prophets

Psalm 74:9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.

Lamentations 2:9 Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed, and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:3 Son of man, speak to the ancients of Israel and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Are you come to inquire of me? As I live, I will not answer you, saith the Lord God.

Context
Philistines Gather Against Israel
5And Saul saw the army of the Philistines, and was afraid, and his heart was very much dismayed. 6And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.
Cross References
Exodus 28:30
And thou shalt put in the rational of judgment doctrine and truth, which shall be on Aaron's breast, when he shall go in before the Lord: and he shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his breast, in the sight of the Lord always.

Leviticus 8:8
And binding it with the girdle, he fitted it to the rational, on which was Doctrine and Truth.

Numbers 12:6
He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

Numbers 27:21
If any thing be to be done, Eleazar the priest shall consult the Lord for him. He and all the children of Israel with him, and the rest of the multitude shall go out and go in at his word.

1 Samuel 14:37
And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he answered him not that day.

1 Samuel 28:5
And Saul saw the army of the Philistines, and was afraid, and his heart was very much dismayed.

1 Samuel 28:15
And Samuel said to Saul: Why hast thou disturbed my rest, that I should be brought up? And 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 thee, that thou mayst shew me what I shall do.

2 Samuel 22:42
They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord, and he shall not hear them.

1 Chronicles 10:13
So Saul died for his iniquities, because he transgressed the commandment of the Lord, which he had commanded, and kept it not: and moreover consulted also a witch,

1 Chronicles 10:14
And trusted not in the Lord: therefore he slew him, and transferred his kingdom to David the son of Isai.

Proverbs 1:24
You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass after this, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy: your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

Micah 3:7
Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.

1 Samuel 28:5
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