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 thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

Good counsel

Luke 16:8
"And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.