For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: And in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Where no counsel is, the people fall: But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Every purpose is established by counsel: And with good advice make war.
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.