Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

Bible References

General references

Proverbs 15:22
Plans fail when there is no counsel,
but with many advisers they succeed.
Proverbs 16:22
Insight is a fountain of life for its possessor,
but the discipline of fools is folly.
Proverbs 24:6
for you should wage war with sound guidance—
victory comes with many counselors.
1 Kings 12:1
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.
Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are complete fools;
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise,
a student of eastern kings”?
Acts 15:6
Then the apostles and the elders assembled to consider this matter.

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