Please go and find out for sure, know and see the place where his feet are, and who has seen him there; for it has been said that he is crafty and shrewd.

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides; and come back to me with certainty, and I shall go with you. And it shall be, if he is in the land, that I shall search for him throughout all the thousands of Judah.

So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had purposed to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring calamity upon Absalom.

And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot bring about their success;

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the twisted is precipitated.

Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He restrains and frustrates the devices of the people.

The counsel of Jehovah stands forever, the thoughts of His heart from generation to generation.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

Who is he who speaks and it occurs, if the Lord has not commanded it?

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness;

and again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Now His betrayer had given them a sign, saying, Whomever I kiss, He is the One; seize Him.

And immediately he went up to Jesus and said, Greetings, Rabbi; and kissed Him.

And it came to pass after forty years that Absalom said to the king, Please, let me go to Hebron and pay the vow which I have vowed unto Jehovah.

And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose and went to Hebron.

And with Absalom went two hundred men invited from Jerusalem, and they went along innocently and did not know anything.

Then Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little, Jehu shall serve him much.

Now therefore, call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. Let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live. But Jehu acted with cunning, in order to destroy those serving Baal.

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the sons of the captivity were building the temple of Jehovah the God of Israel,

they came to Zerubbabel and the heads of the fathers, and said to them, Let us build with you, for we seek your God as you do; and we have sacrificed to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.

They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Jehovah shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things,

Lust is in its midst; oppression and guile do not depart from its streets.

but it is you, a man my equal, my friend and acquaintance.

Let death seize them, and let them go down alive into Sheol; for evil is among them and in their dwellings.

He who hates, disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself.

When he speaks graciously, do not believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart.

that some men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

And so it happened when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, he and the men with him, and threw them into the middle of the pit.

So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on one of His words, in order to deliver Him to the power and the authority of the governor.

Then they asked Him, saying, Teacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You do not show personal regard, but teach the way of God in truth: