QQ 2:151

Necromancy

The market is busy today, Father.

Indeed, I wonder what’s going on, Zaid?

“Alms for the dead, alms for the dead! Give a coin, and we will remember your ancestors for you!”

Tsk, cultists. Leave the dead to be dead. Live life!

When they say to you: “Consult the mediums and necromancers who chirp and mutter,” shouldn’t a people seek their God? Should a people consult the dead on behalf of the living?

TLV, Isaiah 8:19

¹⁰ There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or a fortune-teller, soothsayer, omen reader, or sorcerer, ¹¹ or one who casts spells, or a medium, a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. ¹² For whoever does these things is an abomination to Adonai, and because of these abominations Adonai your God is driving them out from before you.

TLV, Deuteronomy 18:10-12

⁵ For the living know that they will die,
    but the dead know nothing.
They have no further reward,
    even the memory of them is forgotten.
⁶ Their love, their hatred, and their zeal
    have already perished;
never again will they have a share
    in anything that is done under the sun.

TLV, Ecclesiastes 9:5–6

But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead.”

LSB, Matthew 8:22