8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Sovereignty of God

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

• 1Cor 16:7 — For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
• 1Pet 2:8 — And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
• 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
• Acts 4:27 — For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
• Acts 5:38 — And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
• Acts 12:4 — And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
• Dan 4:35 — And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto h
• Dan 11:24 — He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil,
• Eccl 3:14 — I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
• Eccl 7:29 — Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
• Eph 1:11 — In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Esth 9:25 — But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on t
• Ezek 38:10 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
• Gen 37:19 — And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
• Gen 45:4 — And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
• Gen 50:20 — But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
• Heb 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
• Heb 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
• Isa 7:6 — Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
• Isa 14:24 — The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
• Isa 14:24 — The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
• Isa 14:26 — This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
• Isa 14:27 — For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
• Isa 46:10 — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
• Isa 46:10 — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
• Jas 4:15 — For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
• Jer 36:23 — And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was
• Jer 44:29 — And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
• Job 23:13 — But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
• Job 23:13 — But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
• Job 42:2 — I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
• Jude 1:4 — For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our
• Lam 3:37 — Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
• Luke 2:6 — And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
• Mark 14:2 — But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
• Matt 26:4 — And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
• Matt 26:5 — But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
• Matt 27:63 — Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
• Num 22:38 — And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
• Num 23:27 — And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.