So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it;

and he asked not counsel of Jehovah; therefore he slew him, and transferred the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

Behold, he was honoured above the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David set him in his council.

And of Manasseh there have fallen unto David in his coming with the Philistines against Israel to battle -- and they helped them not, for by counsel the princes of the Philistines sent him away, saying, 'With our heads he doth fall unto his master Saul.' --

And David will counsel with the chiefs of the thousands and the hundreds, to every leader.

And Obededom's lot fell to the South. And to his sons fell the counsel houses.

In the East kept six Levites: in the North four a day, and in the South four a day, and in every counsel house, two,

And Jonathan, David's brother's son, a man of counsel, a man that taught wisdom, and a writer: he and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni waited on the king's sons.

And Ahithophel was of the king's counsel. And Hushai the Archite was the king's companion.