What does the Bible say about divination?

  Question: "What does the Bible say about divination?" 

Answer:  The word divination comes from the Latin divinare, meaning  “to foresee” or “to be inspired by a god.” To practice divination is to  uncover hidden knowledge by supernatural means. It is associated with  the occult and involves fortune-telling or soothsaying, as it used to be  called.

From ancient times, people have used divination to gain knowledge of the  future or as a way to make money. The practice continues as those who  claim supernatural insight read palms, tea leaves, tarot cards, star  charts, and more.

God tells us His view of divination in Deuteronomy 18:10: “There shall not be found among you . . . anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens.” First Samuel 15:10 compares rebellion to the “sin of divination.”

Practicing divination is listed as one of the reasons for Israel’s exile (2 Kings 17:17). Jeremiah 14:14  spoke of the false prophets of the time, saying, “They are prophesying  to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own  minds.” So, compared to God’s truth, divination is false, deceitful,  and worthless.

As Luke traveled with Paul and Silas in the city of Philippi, he  recorded an encounter with a diviner: “We were met by a slave girl who  had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by  fortune-telling” (Acts 16:16).  The girl’s ability to penetrate mysteries was due to a demon that  controlled her. Her masters received “much gain” from their slave. Paul  eventually exorcised the demon (verse 18), freeing the girl from her  spiritual bondage and angering the slave owners (verse 19).

Divination in any form is sin. It is not harmless entertainment or an  alternate source of wisdom. Christians should avoid any practice related  to divination, including fortune-telling, astrology, witchcraft, tarot  cards, necromancy, and spell-casting. The spirit world is real, but it  is not innocent. According to Scripture, those spirits that are not the  Holy Spirit or angels are evil spirits.

Christians need not fear the spirits involved in divination; neither are  Christians to seek wisdom from them. The Christian’s wisdom comes from  God (James 1:5). 

Source: http://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-divination.html