Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

Ahithophel

2 Samuel 15:12
And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.
Psalm 3:1
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
O Lord, how my adversaries have increased!
Many are rising up against me.
Psalm 41:9
Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me.
Psalm 55:12
For it is not an enemy who reproaches me,
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me,
Then I could hide myself from him.
Matthew 26:14
Then one of the twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
John 13:18
I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’

O lord

Psalm 55:15
Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol,
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.
Psalm 109:3
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without cause.

Turn the counsel

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.
2 Samuel 17:14
Then 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 ordained to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring calamity on Absalom.
Job 5:12
“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.
Job 12:16
“With Him are strength and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
Isaiah 19:3
“Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them;
And I will confound their strategy,
So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead
And to mediums and spiritists.
Jeremiah 8:8
How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.
James 3:15
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.

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.

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