2 Samuel 16:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give us your counsel; what shall we do?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your counsel. What shall we do?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give your counsel what we shall do.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your advice then. What should we do?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Present a counsel as to what we ought to do."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult what we are to do.

2 Samuel 16:20 Cross References

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.

2 Samuel 16:19

Moreover, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? Just as I have served your father, so I will serve you.”

2 Samuel 16:21

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines, the ones he has left to look after the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and his anointed, saying,

Exodus 1:10

Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Isaiah 29:15

Woe to those who hide a plan too deep for the Lord, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”

Isaiah 8:10

Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to naught; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Matthew 27:1

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death.