2 Samuel 15:31

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2 Samuel 15:31

Then someone reported to David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.”

“Lord,” David pleaded, “please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

2 Samuel 16:23

Now the advice Ahithophel gave in those days was like someone asking about a word from God—such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel’s advice.

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Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.”

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He set his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

2 Samuel 15:12

While he was offering the sacrifices, Absalom sent for David’s adviser Ahithophel the Gilonite, from his city of Giloh. So the conspiracy grew strong, and the people supporting Absalom continued to increase.

Job 12:16-20

True wisdom and power belong to Him.
The deceived and the deceiver are His.

Psalm 3:1

A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom.Lord, how my foes increase!
There are many who attack me.

Job 5:12

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

Psalm 41:9

Even my friend in whom I trusted,
one who ate my bread,
has raised his heel against me.

Psalm 55:12

Now it is not an enemy who insults me—
otherwise I could bear it;
it is not a foe who rises up against me—
otherwise I could hide from him.

Psalm 55:14-15

We used to have close fellowship;
we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

Psalm 109:3

They surround me with hateful words
and attack me without cause.

Isaiah 19:3

Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it,
and I will frustrate its plans.
Then they will seek idols, ghosts,
spirits of the dead, and spiritists.

Isaiah 19:11-25

The princes of Zoan are complete fools;
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise,
a student of eastern kings”?

Jeremiah 8:8-9

“How can you claim, ‘We are wise;
the law of the Lord is with us’?
In fact, the lying pen of scribes
has produced falsehood.

Matthew 26:14-15

Then one of the Twelve—the man called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests

John 13:18

I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats My bread has raised his heel against Me.

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?

1 Corinthians 3:18-20

No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish so that he can become wise.

James 3:15

Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

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Summary

2 Samuel 15:31

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

Ahithophel

O lord

Psalm 55:15

Psalm 109:3

Turn the counsel

General references

Job 12:17

Job 17:4

Bible References

Ahithophel

A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom.Lord, how my foes increase!
There are many who attack me.

Even my friend in whom I trusted,
one who ate my bread,
has raised his heel against me.

Now it is not an enemy who insults me—
otherwise I could bear it;
it is not a foe who rises up against me—
otherwise I could hide from him.

Then one of the Twelve—the man called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests

I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats My bread

has raised his heel against Me.

O lord

Let death take them by surprise;
let them go down to Sheol alive,
because evil is in their homes and within them.