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12 And it happened—the woman saw Samuel and screamed. She said to Saul, “You tricked me! You are Saul.”

13 The king said to the woman, “Don’t be afraid! What do you see?”

The woman said, “I see a spirit coming up out of the ground.[a]

14 Saul asked, “What does he look like?”

The woman answered, “He looks like an old man wearing a special robe.”

Then Saul knew it was Samuel, and he bowed down. His face touched the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 28:13 ground Or “Sheol, the place of death.”

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