Proverbs 24:6

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.

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

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

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.

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

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’

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?

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

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

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.

He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

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.

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

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

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 arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” Yahweh said, “Judah first.”

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 king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’ ”

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.”

But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, “Behold, the two kings didn’t stand before him! How then shall we stand?”

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.”

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?

You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

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

he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.

Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.

The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,

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.

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

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

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

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

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

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.

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

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?”

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.