Bible Cross References
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
1 Kings 20:11
And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off.
2 Kings 18:20-22
20
You have spoken of having counsel and power for war; but they are mere words of the lips. And in whom have you trusted, that you have rebelled against me?
21
Now behold, you have trusted in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting in him.
22
But if you say to me, We have trusted in Jehovah our God, is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has removed, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall bow down before this altar in Jerusalem?
Proverbs 20:18
Plans are established by counsel; and wage war with good advice.
Proverbs 25:8
Do not be quick to start a quarrel, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.