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1Sa 6:2 Strong Concordance And the Philistines [06430] called [07121] for the priests [03548] and the diviners [07080], saying [0559], What shall we do [06213] to the ark [0727] of the LORD [03068]? tell [03045] us wherewith we shall send [07971] it to his place [04725].
  King James And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners--The designed restoration of the ark was not, it seems, universally approved of, and many doubts were expressed whether the prevailing pestilence was really a judgment of Heaven. The priests and diviners united all parties by recommending a course which would enable them easily to discriminate the true character of the calamities, and at the same time to propitiate the incensed Deity for any acts of disrespect which might have been shown to His ark.
 
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2 Then the king [04428] commanded [0559] to call [07121] the magicians [02748], and the astrologers [0825], and the sorcerers [03784], and the Chaldeans [03778], for to shew [05046] the king [04428] his dreams [02472]. So they came [0935] and stood [05975] before [06440] the king [04428].
11 Then Pharaoh [06547] also called [07121] the wise men [02450] and the sorcerers [03784]: now the magicians [02748] of Egypt [04714], they also did [06213] in like manner [03651] with their enchantments [03858].
21 For the king [04428] of Babylon [0894] stood [05975] at the parting [0517] of the way [01870], at the head [07218] of the two [08147] ways [01870], to use [07080] divination [07081]: he made his arrows [02671] bright [07043], he consulted [07592] with images [08655], he looked [07200] in the liver [03516].
22 At his right hand [03225] was the divination [07081] for Jerusalem [03389], to appoint [07760] captains [03733], to open [06605] the mouth [06310] in the slaughter [07524], to lift up [07311] the voice [06963] with shouting [08643], to appoint [07760] battering rams [03733] against the gates [08179], to cast [08210] a mount [05550], and to build [01129] a fort [01785].
10 There shall not be found [04672] among you any one that maketh his son [01121] or his daughter [01323] to pass [05674] through the fire [0784], or that useth [07080] divination [07081], or an observer of times [06049], or an enchanter [05172], or a witch [03784],