29 Bible Verses about Man's Counsel

Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one's friend from sincere counsel.

Then some people said, "Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God's word. Come on! Let's bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says."

Now let me give you some advice as to how you can save your life and your son Solomon's life.

All you Israelites, make a decision here!"

She said, "In the past they would always say, 'Let them inquire in Abel,' and that is how they settled things.

When it became the turn of Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai (who had raised her as if she were his own daughter) to go to the king, she did not request anything except what Hegai the king's eunuch, who was overseer of the women, had recommended. Yet Esther met with the approval of all who saw her.

Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps your prosperity will be prolonged."

My people, recall how King Balak of Moab planned to harm you, how Balaam son of Beor responded to him. Recall how you journeyed from Shittim to Gilgal, so you might acknowledge that the Lord has treated you fairly."

After consulting together they bought the Potter's Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners.

and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor -- which resulted in the plague among the community of the Lord!

So Hushai came to Absalom. Absalom said to him, "Here is what Ahithophel has advised. Should we follow his advice? If not, what would you recommend?"

My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba -- in number like the sand by the sea! -- be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle. We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive -- not one of them! If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!"read more.
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel." Now the Lord had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel." Now the Lord had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.

King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, "How do you advise me to answer these people?" They said to him, "Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward." But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.

But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.

He asked them, "How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, 'Lessen the demands your father placed on us'?"

The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, "It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt."

Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said, "Invade at such and such a place."

You have also established prophets to announce in Jerusalem on your behalf, 'We have a king in Judah!' Now the king is going to hear about these rumors. So come on! Let's talk about this."

For my enemies talk about me; those waiting for a chance to kill me plot my demise.

The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the Lord and his anointed king.

Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.

When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

But it was he who filled their houses with good things -- yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.