7Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.”
En-dor was about 6–7 kilometres north-east of Shunem.1 Saul would have had to skirt the Philistine camp in order to get there.2 It was a desperate and dangerous journey.
7 Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.”