Bible Cross References
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 15:22
They that honor not councils put off deliberation, but counsel abides in the hearts of counselors.
Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessors, but the instruction of fools is evil.
Proverbs 24:6
War is carried on with wise counsel, and aid is supplied to the heart of a counselor.
1 Kings 12:1-19
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And King Rehoboam went to Shechem;
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for all Israel was coming to Shechem to make him king.
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And the people spoke to King Rehoboam, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy;
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but lighten somewhat of the hard service of your father, and of his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you.
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And he said to them, Depart for three days, and return to me. And they departed.
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Then the king referred [the matter] to the elders, who stood before Solomon his father while he was yet living, saying, How do you advise that I should answer this people?
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And they spoke to him, saying, If you will this day be a servant to this people, and serve them, and speak to them good words, then will they be your servants continually.
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But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they gave him, and consulted with the young men who were brought up with him, who stood in his presence.
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And he said to them, What counsel do you give? And what shall I answer to this people who speak to me, saying, Lighten somewhat of the yoke which your father has put upon us?
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And the young men who had been brought up with him, who stood before his face, spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you say to this people who have spoken to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and would you now lighten it from off us. Thus shall say to them: My little [finger shall be] thicker than my father's loins.
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And whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I also will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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And all Israel came to King Rehoboam on the third day, as the king spoke to them, saying, Return to me on the third day.
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And the king answered the people harshly. And Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men which they counseled him.
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And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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And the king hearkened not to the people, because the change was from the Lord, that He might establish His word which He spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
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And all Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them. And the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jesse. Depart, O Israel, to your tents; now feed your own house, David.
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So Israel departed to his tents.
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And the king sent Adoniram who was over the tribute; and they stoned him with stones, and he died. And King Rehoboam made haste to rise and flee to Jerusalem.
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So Israel rebelled against the house of David until this day.
Isaiah 19:11-14
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And the princes of Tanis shall be fools; [as for] the king's wise counselors, their counsel shall be turned into folly; how will you say to the king, we are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?
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Where are your wise men now? And let them declare to you, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt?
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The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up [with pride], and they shall cause Egypt to wander by tribes.
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For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.
Acts 15:6-21
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And the apostles and elders gathered together to see about this matter.
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And after much dispute, Peter arose and said to them: "Men, brothers, you know that from early days God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
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And God, the knower of hearts, bore witness to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as also [He did] to us,
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and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
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Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
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But through the grace of the Lord Jesus, we believe that we will be saved in the same manner as they."
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Then all the multitude stopped speaking and listened to Barnabas and Paul telling as many signs and wonders as God had done among the Gentiles through them.
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Now after they had finished speaking, James answered, saying, "Men and brothers, listen to me:
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Simon had declared how God first visited [them] to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.
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And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:
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"After this I will return, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, which has fallen; and its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
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in order that the rest of men may seek out the LORD, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the LORD who does all these things.'
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"Known from everlasting to God are all His works.
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Therefore I judge that we must not cause trouble for those who are turning to God from [among] the Gentiles;
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but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and [from] blood.
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"For Moses has had from ancient generations those who proclaim him in each city, being read in the synagogues from one Sabbath to another."