Nehemiah 4:15

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

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.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

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.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

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.”

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

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

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.

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.

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.

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

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

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.

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

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

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

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!”

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

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.

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,

and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

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

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

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.

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.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

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

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

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

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.

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

Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in; and I told the dream before them; but they didn’t make known to me its interpretation.

The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.”

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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

for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;

Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,

For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

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

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

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

I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

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

If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

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.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

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

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

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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

“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;