For by wise counsel you shall wage your war: and in a multitude of counselors there is safety.
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice wage war.
Without counsel plans go wrong: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first, and consults whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand?
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Therefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.