Magician

How Nave’s arranged it

• A person who claims to understand and explain mysteries by magicDaniel 1:20
• Failed to interpret Pharaoh's dreamsGenesis 41:8Genesis 41:24
• NebuchadnezzarsDaniel 2:2–13Daniel 4:7
• Wrought apparent miraclesExodus 7:11Exodus 7:12Exodus 7:22Exodus 8:7Exodus 8:18

The passages, in Bible order (10)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 10 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 41:8

   In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 41:82 voices

   “Called for all the magicians - חרטמים chartummim. The word here used may probably mean no more than interpreters of abstruse and difficult subjects; and especially of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, an art which is now entirely lost. It is most likely that the term is Egyptian, and consequently its etymology must remain unknown to us.

   “And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled,....

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2. Genesis 41:24

   And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 41:241 voice

   “And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears,.... See Gill on Gen 41:7, and I told this unto the magicians; just in the same manner as he had to Joseph: but there was none that could declare it unto me; the meaning of it; what all this should signify or portend.

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3. Exodus 7:11

   But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 7:112 voices

   “Three names for the magicians of Egypt are given in this verse. The “wise men” are men who know occult arts. The “sorcerers” are they who “mutter magic formulae,” especially when driving away crocodiles, snakes, asps, etc. It was natural that Pharaoh should have sent for such persons. The “magicians” are the “bearers of sacred words,” scribes and interpreters of hieroglyphic writings.

   “Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers,....

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4. Exodus 7:12

   Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 7:122 voices

   “Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods - As Egypt was remarkably addicted to magic, sorcery, etc., it was necessary that God should permit Pharaoh’s wise men to act to the utmost of their skill in order to imitate the work of God, that his superiority might be clearly seen, and his powerful working incontestably ascertained; and this was fully done when Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. We have already seen that the names of two of the chief of these magicians were Jannes and Jambres; see Clarke on Exo 2:10 (note), and 2Ti 3:8 (note).

   “For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents,....

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5. Exodus 7:22

   But the magicians of Egypt did the same things by their magic arts. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

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   “And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments,....

   “And the magicians - did so - But if all the water in Egypt was turned into blood by Moses, where did the magicians get the water which they changed into blood? This question is answered in Exo 7:24. The Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink, and it seems that the water obtained by this means was not bloody like that in the river: on this water therefore the magicians might operate.

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6. Exodus 8:7

   But the magicians did the same thing by their magic arts, and they also brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 8:72 voices

   “And the magicians did so with their enchantments, &c.

   “The magicians would seem to have been able to increase the plague, but not to remove it; hence, Pharaoh’s application to Moses, the first symptoms of yielding.

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7. Exodus 8:18

   The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.

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   “And the magicians did so with their enchantments, to bring forth lice,....

   “After these plagues, gnats are brought forth. This animal flies through the air suspended on wings. But it is so subtle and minute that it escapes being seen by the eye unless one looks closely. But when it lands on the body it drills in …

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8. Daniel 1:20

   In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.

   ›Commentary on Daniel 1:202 voices

   “Verse 20. "And every word of wisdom and understanding the king inquired of them, he found it in them ten times as great as all the soothsayers and magicians put together who were to be found in his entire realm." For "soothsayers" and "magicians" the Vulgate edition translated "sophists" and "philosophers" - terms to be understood not in the sense of the philosophy and sophistic erudition which Greek learning holds forth, but rather in the sense of the lore of a barbarian people, which the Chaldeans pursue as philosophy even to this day.

   “And in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them,....

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9. Daniel 2:2–13

   So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to explain his dreams. When they came and stood before the king,

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   “Then the king commanded to call the magicians,....

   “Verse 2. "Wherefore the king commanded that the soothsayers, the magi, the charmers, and the Chaldeans show the king his dream. And when they came, they stood in the presence of the king." Those whom we have translated as "soothsayers" (harioli) others have rendered as epaoidoi, that is, "enchanters." Well then, it seems to me that enchanters are people who perform a thing by means of words; magi are those who pursue individual lines of philosophic enquiry; charmers are those who employ blood and animal sacrifices and often have contact with corpses.

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10. Daniel 4:7

    When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners came in, I told them the dream, and they could not interpret it for me.

    ›Commentary on Daniel 4:72 voices

    “Then he described what happened in his second vision, as none of the magicians, soothsayers, and Chaldeans were able to declare the matter to the king, until Daniel was called who also described to Nebuchadnezzar his first vision, so that in all things God might glorify his own slaves the prophets beyond the other barbarians and foreign nations, who pretend to be flattered in their human wisdom, having practiced earthly learning.

    “Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers,.... See Gill on Dan 2:2, and I told the dream before them, but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof; because they could not; before they pretended, if the dream was told, they could give the interpretation of it; but now, though it was told, they could not do it; which shows the vanity of their art, the falsehood of their pretensions, and that they were but jugglers and impostors.

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