1 Kings 20:7

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. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.

David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.

David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.

So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

“At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.

Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.

David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.

Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Get Micaiah the son of Imla quickly.”

He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,