2 Samuel 17:14
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14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” (A)For the Lord had ordained[a] to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.
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- 2 Samuel 17:14 Hebrew commanded
2 Samuel 15:34
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34 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, (A)‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
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1 Corinthians 1:19-20
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19 For it is written,
(A)“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 (B)Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? (C)Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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Isaiah 8:10
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10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, (A)but it will not stand,
for God (B)is with us.[a]
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- Isaiah 8:10 The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel
Proverbs 21:30
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30 (A)No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.
Proverbs 19:21
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21 (A)Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
but (B)it is the purpose of the Lord (C)that will stand.
2 Samuel 15:31
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31 And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please (A)turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
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1 Corinthians 3:19
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19 For (A)the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, (B)“He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
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Lamentations 3:37
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37 (A)Who has spoken and it came to pass,
unless the Lord has commanded it?
Job 5:12-14
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12 He (A)frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
13 He (B)catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime
and (C)grope at noonday as in the night.
2 Samuel 16:23
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23 Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, (A)both by David and by Absalom.
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Genesis 32:28
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28 Then he said, (A)“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[a] for (B)you have striven with God and (C)with men, and have prevailed.”
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- Genesis 32:28 Israel means He strives with God, or God strives
Amos 9:3
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3 If they hide themselves on (A)the top of Carmel,
from there I will search them out and take them;
(B)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
Psalm 33:9-10
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9 For (A)he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.
10 The Lord (B)brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Psalm 9:16
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16 The Lord has made himself (A)known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.[a] Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 9:16 Probably a musical or liturgical term
2 Chronicles 25:20
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20 But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, (A)because they had sought the gods of Edom.
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2 Chronicles 25:16
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16 But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that (A)God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
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Deuteronomy 2:30
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30 But (A)Sihon the king of (B)Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God (C)hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.
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Exodus 9:16
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16 (A)But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so (B)that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
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