Proverbs 20:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

Establish the thoughtes by counsell: and by counsell make warre.

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  • Prov 15:22 : 22 Without cousel thoughts come to nought: but in the multitude of counsellers there is stedfastnesse.
  • Prov 24:6 : 6 For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.
  • Luke 14:31 : 31 Or what King going to make warre against another King, sitteth not downe first, and taketh counsell, whether he be able with ten thousande, to meete him that commeth against him with twentie thousand?
  • Prov 11:14 : 14 Where no counsell is, the people fall: but where many counsellers are, there is health.
  • Prov 25:8 : 8 Goe not foorth hastily to strife, least thou know not what to doe in the ende thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
  • Judg 1:1-2 : 1 After that Ioshua was dead, the children of Israel asked ye Lorde, saying, Who shall goe vp for vs against the Canaanites, to fight first against them? 2 And the Lord said, Iudah shall goe vp: behold, I haue giuen the land into his hande.
  • Judg 9:29 : 29 Now would God this people were vnder mine hand: then would I put away Abimelech; he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.
  • Judg 20:7 : 7 Behold, ye are al children of Israel: giue your aduise, and counsell herein.
  • Judg 20:18 : 18 And the children of Israel arose, and went vp to the house of God, and asked of God, saying, Which of vs shal goe vp first to fight against the children of Beniamin? And the Lord said, Iudah shalbe first.
  • Judg 20:23 : 23 (For the children of Israel had gone vp and wept before the Lord vnto the euening, and had asked of the Lorde, saying, Shall I goe againe to battel against the children of Beniamin my brethren? and the Lord said, Go vp against them)
  • Judg 20:26-28 : 26 Then al the children of Israel went vp and all the people came also vnto the house of God, and wept and sate there before the Lord & fasted that day vnto the euening, and offred burnt offrings and peace offrings before the Lord. 27 And the children of Israel asked the Lorde (for there was the Arke of the couenat of God in those dayes, 28 And Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron stoode before it at that time) saying, Shall I yet goe anie more to battel against the children of Beniamin my brethren, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go vp: for to morowe I will deliuer them into your hand.
  • 2 Sam 2:26-27 : 26 Then Abner called to Ioab, and said, Shall the sworde deuoure for euer? Knowest thou not, that it will be bitternesse in the latter ende? Howe long then shall it be, or thou bid the people returne from following their brethren? 27 And Ioab sayde, As God liueth, if thou haddest not spoken, surely euen in the morning the people had departed euery one backe from his brother.
  • 2 Chr 25:17-23 : 17 Then Amaziah King of Iudah tooke counsell, and sent to Ioash the sonne of Iehoahaz, the sonne of Iehu King of Israel, saying, Come, let vs see one another in the face. 18 But Ioash King of Israel sent to Amaziah King of Iudah, saying, The thistle that is in Lebanon, sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Giue thy daughter to my sonne to wife: and the wilde beast that was in Lebanon went and trode downe the thistle. 19 Thou thinkest: lo, thou hast smitten Edom, and thine heart lifteth thee vp to bragge: abide now at home: why doest thou prouoke to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, and Iudah with thee? 20 But Amaziah would not heare: for it was of God, that he might deliuer them into his had, because they had sought the gods of Edom. 21 So Ioash the King of Israel went vp: and he, and Amaziah King of Iudah saw one another in the face at Bethshemesh, which is in Iudah. 22 And Iudah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled euery man to his tents. 23 But Ioash the King of Israel tooke Amaziah King of Iudah, the sonne of Ioash, the sonne of Iehoahaz in Bethshemesh, and brought him to Ierusalem, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem, from the gate of Ephraim vnto the corner gate, foure hundreth cubites.

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    20Heare counsell and receiue instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter ende.

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    10Take counsell together, yet it shall be brought to nought: pronounce a decree, yet shall it not stand: for God is with vs.

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  • Prov 21:30-31
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    18Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.

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    27Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.

  • 2 Sam 17:14
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    14Then Absalom and all the men of Israel sayde, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better, then the counsell of Ahithophel: for the Lorde had determined to destroy the good counsell of Ahithophel, that the Lorde might bring euill vpon Absalom.

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