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

Bible References

To defeat

1 Corinthians 1:19
For the Scripture says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And I will thwart the shrewdness of the shrewd!"
1 Corinthians 3:19
For this world's wisdom is foolishness to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

Good counsel

Luke 16:8
And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their relation to their own age than the sons of the light.