Albert Barnes Commentary 1 Samuel 28:11

"Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel." — 1 Samuel 28:11 (ASV)

Bring me up Samuel - Dr. Trench observes, “All human history has failed to record a despair deeper or more tragic than his, who, having forsaken God and being forsaken by God, is now seeking to move hell; and infinitely guilty as he is, there is assuredly something unutterably pathetic in that yearning of the disanointed king to exchange words with the friend and counselor of his youth, and if he must hear his doom, to hear it from no other lips but his” (Shipwrecks of Faith, p. 47).