9The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?”
The woman is wary of strangers who might possibly be out to expose her secret practices in an attempt to trap and get rid of her.1 She accuses Saul of endangering her life.2 She doesn’t know him and if he were to speak about her to the right people, her life would be forfeit.
9 The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?”