2 Samuel 15:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ David was told that Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, “O Lord, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ David was told, Ahithophel [your counselor] is among the conspirators with Absalom. David said, O Lord, I pray You, turn Ahithophel's counsel into foolishness.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

Common English Bible

³¹ David was told that Ahithophel was also among the conspirators with Absalom, so he prayed, “Please, LORD, make Ahithophel’s advice foolish.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Then it was reported to David that Ahithophel also had joined in swearing with Absalom. And David said, " O Lord, I beg you, to uncover the foolishness of the counsel of Ahithophel."

2 Samuel 15:31 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

2 Samuel 17:14

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring ruin on Absalom.

James 3:15

This is not wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.

Psalm 41:9

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted the heel against me.

2 Samuel 16:23

Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the oracle of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel was esteemed both by David and by Absalom.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Psalm 3:1

O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

Job 5:12

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

2 Samuel 15:12

While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. The conspiracy grew in strength, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.

John 13:18

I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But it is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’

Isaiah 19:3

the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their plans; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead and the ghosts and the familiar spirits;

Psalm 109:3

They surround me with words of hate and attack me without cause.

Psalm 55:12

It is not enemies who taunt me— I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me— I could hide from them.

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of soothsayers and makes fools of diviners; who turns back the wise and makes their knowledge foolish;

2 Samuel 17:5

Then Absalom said, “Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear too what he has to say.”

2 Samuel 17:7

Then Hushai said to Absalom, “This time the counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good.”

Psalm 55:10

Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;