2 Samuel 17:14

Legacy Standard Bible

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

Cross References

Genesis 32:28

Then He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

2 Samuel 15:31

Now David informed them, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Yahweh, I pray, make the counsel of Ahithophel foolishness.”

2 Samuel 15:34

But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant,’ then you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

2 Samuel 16:23

Now the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in those days, was as if one asked of the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel regarded by both David and Absalom.

2 Chronicles 10:15

So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of events from God, that Yahweh might establish His word, which He spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

2 Chronicles 10:8

But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had counseled him, and took counsel with the young men who grew up with him and stood before him.

2 Chronicles 25:16

Now it happened that as he was talking with him, the king said to him, “Have we given you to be a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped and said, “I know that God has counseled to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

2 Chronicles 25:20

But Amaziah would not listen, for it was from God, that He might give them into the hand of Joash because they had sought the gods of Edom.

Nehemiah 4:15

Now it happened that when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had thwarted their counsel, then all of us returned to the wall, each one to his work.

Job 12:17

“He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made; In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Psalm 9:16

Yahweh has made Himself known; He has executed judgment. In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.

Exodus 9:16

But, indeed, for this reason I have caused you to stand, in order to show you My power and in order to recount My name through all the earth.

Proverbs 19:21

Many thoughts are in a man’s heart, But it is the counsel of Yahweh that will stand.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, there is no discernment And there is no counsel against Yahweh.

Isaiah 8:10

“Devise counsel, but it will be thwarted; Speak a word, but it will not stand, For God is with us.”

Lamentations 3:37

Who is there who speaks and it happens, Unless the Lord has commanded it?

Amos 9:3

“And though they hide on the top of Carmel, From there I will search them out and take them; And though they conceal themselves from My eyes on the floor of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

Luke 16:8

And his master praised the unrighteous steward because he had acted shrewdly, for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his land, for Yahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today.

Joshua 11:20

For it was of Yahweh to strengthen their hearts, to meet Israel in battle in order that he might devote them to destruction, that they might receive no mercy, but that he might destroy them, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.