2 Chronicles 22:11

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

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

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.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.

Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” All the people shouted, and said, “Long live the king!”

Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’

I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”

I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.

Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ”

but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. He said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.

‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’ ”

I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.

However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;

He frustrates the plans of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

then may my covenant also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

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.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

But Solomon built him a house.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house. They went up by winding stairs into the middle floor, and out of the middle into the third.

(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bedroom; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into a covenant with him.

Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

“Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his name, says:

For Yahweh says: “David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.

then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”

even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.