430 FISH NOT IN SACRIFICE OR AUGURY 



As regards the diviners, etc., we find in Isaiah ii. 6, " Thou 

 hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be 

 filled with customs from the East and are soothsayers like the 

 Philistines," and in Deut. xviii. 10-12, " one that useth 

 divination, or practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, 

 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, 

 or a necromancer," all these are abominations unto the Lord.^ 



^ T. Davies in Magic Divination and Demonology among the Hebrews, etc., 

 1898, especially in chs. ii. and iii., has much of interest on these subjects. 



