Mediums

People who claim to be channels through whom the spirits of the dead speak to the living.

God's people must not be mediums

Deuteronomy 18:10–12

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

God's people must not consult mediums

Isaiah 8:19–20 See also Leviticus 19:31, Leviticus 20:6; 2 Kings 23:24; Jeremiah 27:9

When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Examples of those who turned to mediums

King Saul

1 Samuel 28:3–16; 1 Chronicles 10:13

King Manasseh

2 Kings 21:6 parallel 2 Chronicles 33:6

The Egyptians

Isaiah 19:3