Acts 23:13

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.

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

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

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

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

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

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.

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

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

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

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

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

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

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

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.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

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.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”

He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”

Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”

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.”

The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

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

and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

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

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

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.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,

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.

“Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’ ”

Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

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.’

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

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

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.