Proverbs 20:18

From verse 18

1. Luke 14:31Rank 1 from verse 18

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   ³¹Or 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?

2. Proverbs 15:22Rank 2 from verse 18

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   ²²Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.

3. Proverbs 24:6Rank 3 from verse 18

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   ⁶For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.

4. Judges 1:1–2Rank 4 from verse 18

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   ¹NOW after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?

   ²And the Lord said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

5. Proverbs 11:14Rank 5 from verse 18

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   ¹⁴Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

6. Judges 20:18Rank 6 from verse 18

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   ¹⁸¶ And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first.

7. 2 Samuel 2:26–27Rank 7 from verse 18

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   ²⁶Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

   ²⁷And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

8. Judges 20:7Rank 8 from verse 18

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   ⁷Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

9. 2 Chronicles 25:17–23Rank 9 from verse 18

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   ¹⁷¶ Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.

   ¹⁸And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

   ¹⁹Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

   ²⁰But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.

   ²¹So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

   ²²And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.

   ²³And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

10. Judges 20:26–28Rank 10 from verse 18

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    ²⁶¶ Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

    ²⁷And the children of Israel inquired of the Lord, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

    ²⁸And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

11. Judges 9:29Rank 11 from verse 18

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    ²⁹And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.

12. Proverbs 25:8Rank 12 from verse 18

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    ⁸Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

13. Judges 20:23Rank 13 from verse 18

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    ²³(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until even, and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.)