2 Chronicles 32:3

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

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

How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind.

This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One third of the ships were destroyed.

His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

If a priest’s daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.

The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest.

I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson, “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”

Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”

The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”

Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life.

The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

The prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, “Go, strengthen yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against you.”

Now the king of Syria was at war against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”

The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”

Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.

Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”

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.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

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

It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

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

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

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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

Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.

The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.