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.
Appointed
To defeat
Good counsel
Bible References
Appointed
Psalm 33:9
For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast.
Lamentations 3:37
Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when LORD does not command it?
Amos 9:3
And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
To defeat
2 Samuel 15:34
but if thou return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king. As I have been thy father's servant in time past, so I will now be thy servant, then thou will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
2 Samuel 16:23
And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
Job 5:12
He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Proverbs 19:21
There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of LORD, that shall stand.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing. Speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will frustrate the understanding of those of understanding.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,
Good counsel
Luke 16:8
And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.