2 Samuel 17:14

New American Bible - revised edition

Then Absalom and all the Israelites said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had commanded that Ahithophel’s good counsel should be thwarted, so that he might bring Absalom to ruin. David Told of the Plan.

Cross References

Genesis 32:28

“What is your name?” the man asked. He answered, “Jacob.”

2 Samuel 15:31

When David was told, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom,” he said, “O Lord, turn the counsel of Ahithophel to folly!” David and Hushai.

2 Samuel 15:34

but if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘Let me be your servant, O king; I was formerly your father’s servant, but now I will be yours,’ you will thwart for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

2 Samuel 16:23

Now the counsel given by Ahithophel at that time was as though one sought the word of God. Such was all the counsel of Ahithophel both to David and to Absalom.

2 Chronicles 10:15

The king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God: the Lord fulfilled the word he had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

2 Chronicles 10:8

But he ignored the advice the elders had given him and asked advice of the young men who had grown up with him and were in his service.

2 Chronicles 25:16

While he was still speaking, however, the king said to him: “Have you been appointed the king’s counselor? Stop! Why should you have to be killed?” Therefore the prophet stopped. But he said, “I know that God’s counsel is your destruction, for by doing this you have refused to listen to my counsel.” Amaziah Punished.

2 Chronicles 25:20

But Amaziah did not listen; for it was God’s doing that they be handed over because they sought the gods of Edom.

Nehemiah 4:15

Thus we went on with the work, half with spears in hand, from daybreak till the stars came out.

Job 12:17

He sends counselors away barefoot, makes fools of judges.

Psalm 9:15

Then I will declare all your praises, sing joyously of your salvation in the gates of daughter Zion.

Psalm 9:16

The nations fall into the pit they dig; in the snare they hide, their own foot is caught.

Exodus 9:16

But this is why I have let you survive: to show you my power and to make my name resound throughout the earth!

Proverbs 19:21

Many are the plans of the human heart, but it is the decision of the Lord that endures.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel prevail against the Lord.

Isaiah 8:10

Form a plan, it shall be thwarted; make a resolve, it shall not be carried out, for “With us is God!” Disciples of Isaiah.

Lamentations 3:37

Who speaks so that it comes to pass, unless the Lord commands it?

Amos 9:3

Though they hide on the summit of Carmel, there too I will hunt them down and take them; Though they hide from my gaze at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

Luke 16:8

And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. Application of the Parable. “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God, for it is written: “He catches the wise in their own ruses,”

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon, king of Heshbon, refused to let us pass through his land, because the Lord, your God, made him stubborn in mind and obstinate in heart that he might deliver him into your power, as indeed he has now done.

Joshua 11:20

For it was the Lord’s doing to make their hearts obstinate to meet Israel in battle, that they might be put under the ban without mercy, and be destroyed as the Lord had commanded Moses.