seating themselves among the burial places, who also pass the night even in the watch huts, eating the flesh of the pig, even the broth of foul things being in their vessels;

They would sit among burial places, which in itself would make them unclean. (Num. 19:14-16) Their purpose in doing so likely was to communicate with the dead​—something that God viewed as detestable. (Deut. 18:10-12; Isa. 8:19-22) Moreover, they were eating swine’s flesh, another thing directly contrary to the written law of God then in force. (Deut. 14:7, 8)