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

Without consultation and wise advice, plans are frustrated,
But with many counselors they are established and succeed.
Proverbs 16:22

Understanding (spiritual insight) is a [refreshing and boundless] wellspring of life to those who have it,
But to give instruction and correction to fools is foolishness.
Proverbs 24:6

For by wise guidance you can wage your war,
And in an abundance of [wise] counselors there is victory and safety.
1 Kings 12:1
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Isaiah 19:11

The princes of Zoan are complete fools;
The counsel of the Pharaoh’s wisest advisors has become stupid.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?”
Acts 15:6
The apostles and the elders came together to consider this matter.