Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

Good counsel

General references

Bible References

Appointed

Psalm 33:9
For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.
Lamentations 3:37
Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?
Amos 9:3
“Though they hide on the summit of Carmel,
I will search them out and take them from there;
And though they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent and it will bite them.

To defeat

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
The advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one inquired of the word of God; so was all the advice of Ahithophel regarded by both David and Absalom.
Job 5:12
“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.
Proverbs 19:21
Many plans are in a man’s heart,
But the counsel of the Lord will stand.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom and no understanding
And no counsel against the Lord.
Isaiah 8:10
Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;
State a proposal, but it will not stand,
For God is with us.”
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”
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”;

Good counsel

Luke 16:8
And his master praised the unrighteous manager 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.

General references

Job 12:17
“He makes counselors walk barefoot
And makes fools of judges.
Job 17:4
“For You have kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.