11 “Whom do you want me to conjure up?” the woman asked him. “Conjure up Samuel for me,” he replied.
12 When the woman saw Samuel, she shrieked at the top of her voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”
13 But the king said to her, “Do not be afraid. What do you see?” “I see a god rising from the earth,” she replied.
14 “What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up wrapped in a robe,” she replied. Saul knew that it was Samuel, and so he bowed his face to the ground in homage.
15 Samuel then said to Saul, “Why do you disturb me by conjuring me up?” Saul replied: “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are waging war against me and God has turned away from me. Since God no longer answers me through prophets or in dreams, I have called upon you to tell me what I should do.”
16 To this Samuel said: “But why do you ask me, if the Lord has abandoned you for your neighbor?
17 The Lord has done to you what he declared through me: he has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor David.