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 firm.
Lamentations 3:37
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
Amos 9:3
Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
To defeat
2 Samuel 15:34
but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.'
2 Samuel 16:23
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 can't perform their enterprise.
Proverbs 19:21
There are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."
Good counsel
Luke 16:8
"His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.