1 Kings 12:8

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

“An astonishing and horrible thing has happened in the land.

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

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

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after.

At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.

Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Let our lord now command your servants who are in front of you to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp. Then when the evil spirit from God is on you, he will play with his hand, and you will be well.”

David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.

It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.

Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Therefore Yahweh says: “Ask now among the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.