2 Samuel 15:31

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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.

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.

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

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

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

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”

When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

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

He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

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.’

The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.

In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’ ”

Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’ ”

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

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

You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

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

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Now in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.

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

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.

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

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them.

The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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

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.

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

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