2 Samuel 16:23

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” Yahweh said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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

Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

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

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

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.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.

After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

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.”

He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, “Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.

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.

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

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

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.’ ”

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.

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’ ”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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.

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

He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

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

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

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

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

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

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

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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?

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

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

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

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.