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2 Samuel 15:31

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

KJV

Nuntiatum est autem David quod et Achitophel esset in conjuratione cum Absalom : dixitque David : Infatua, quæso, Domine, consilium Achitophel.

Vulgate

καὶ ἀνηγγέλη Δαυεὶδ λέγοντες Καὶ Ἀχειτόφελ ἐν τοῖς συστρεφομένοις μετὰ Ἀβεσσαλώμ· καὶ εἶπεν Δαυείδ Διασκέδασον δὴ τὴν βουλὴν Ἀχειτόφελ, Κύριε ὁ θεός μου.

LXX

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

ASV

וְ/דָוִד֙ הִגִּ֣יד לֵ/אמֹ֔ר אֲחִיתֹ֥פֶל בַּ/קֹּשְׁרִ֖ים עִם אַבְשָׁל֑וֹם וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֔ד סַכֶּל נָ֛א אֶת עֲצַ֥ת אֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל יְהוָֽה

Hebrew

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In this verse

People DavidAbsalomAhithophel

In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל
'chytpl
proper_noun · 20×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙
'bshlvm
proper_noun · 111×
דָּוִ֔ד
dvd
proper_noun · 1067×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יַּגֶּד
ygd
verb · 369×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ם
m
verb · 42×
נִסְכַּ֖לְתִּי
nsklty
verb · 8×
נָ֣א
n'
particle · 403×
עֲצַ֥ת
'tst
verb · 90×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:20 — Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1Cor 1:20 — Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1Cor 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
  • 1Cor 3:19 — For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
  • 2Kgs 19:20 — Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
  • 2Sam 15:12 — And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with
  • 2Sam 15:12 — And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with
  • 2Sam 16:23 — And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
  • 2Sam 17:14 — And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the inte
  • 2Sam 17:14 — And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the inte
  • 2Sam 17:23 — And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and
  • 2Sam 17:23 — And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and
  • Isa 8:10 — Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
  • Isa 19:3 — And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to t
  • Isa 19:11 — Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
  • Isa 44:25 — That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
  • Jas 3:15 — This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
  • Jer 8:8 — How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
  • Jer 18:18 — Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him wit
  • Job 5:12 — He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
  • Job 5:13 — He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
  • Job 12:16 — With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
  • John 13:18 — I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
  • Matt 26:14 — Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
  • Neh 2:4 — Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
  • Neh 4:15 — And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
  • Ps 3:1 — Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
  • Ps 5:10 — Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
  • Ps 33:10 — The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
  • Ps 41:9 — Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
  • Ps 55:12 — For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
  • Ps 62:9 — Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 109:3 — They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
  • Ps 109:5 — And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
  • Ps 140:8 — Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.