'Counsel' in the Bible

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.

Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), a man of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was looking for the kingdom of God: