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Proverbs 24:6

For by wise guidance you can wage your war, And in an abundance of [wise] counselors there is victory and safety.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Counsel;   Prudence;   Speaking;   War;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Advice;   Counsellors;   The Topic Concordance - Counsel;   Safety;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - War;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - War, Holy War;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Governments;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Counsel;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
For by guidance you will make war,And in abundance of counselors there is salvation.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For by wise guidance you will wage war, And in abundance of counselors there is victory.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For with discretion must warres be taken in hand: and where as are many that can geue counsaile, there is health.
Darby Translation
For with good advice shalt thou make thy war; and in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
New King James Version
For by wise counsel you will wage your own war, And in a multitude of counselors there is safety.
Literal Translation
For you shall make war for yourself by wise advice, and safety is in the abundance of counselors.
Easy-to-Read Version
Get good advice before you start a war. To win, you must have many good advisors.
World English Bible
For by wise guidance you wage your war; And victory is in many advisors.
King James Version (1611)
For by wise counsell thou shalt make thy warre: and in multitude of counsellers there is safetie.
King James Version
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For with discrecion must warres be take in honde, and where as are many yt can geue councell, there is ye victory.
American Standard Version
For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war; And in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Bible in Basic English
For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.
Update Bible Version
For by wise guidance you shall make your war; And in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
Webster's Bible Translation
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counselors [there is] safety.
New English Translation
for with guidance you wage your war, and with numerous advisers there is victory.
Contemporary English Version
Battles are won by listening to advice and making a lot of plans.
Complete Jewish Bible
For with clever strategy you wage your war, and victory comes from having many advisers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.
George Lamsa Translation
For by provocation is war waged; and in a multitude of counsels there is salvation.
Hebrew Names Version
For by wise guidance you wage your war; And victory is in many advisors.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For with wise advice thou shalt make thy war; and in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
New Living Translation
So don't go to war without wise guidance; victory depends on having many advisers.
New Life Bible
For by wise leading you will make war, and the fight is won when there are many wise men to help you make the plans.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
War is carried on with generalship, and aid is supplied to the heart of a counsellor.
English Revised Version
For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war: and in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Berean Standard Bible
Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
New Revised Standard
for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Surely, with concerted measures, shalt thou make for thyself war, and, success, lieth in the greatness of the counsellor.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.
Lexham English Bible
For with wise guidance you shall make war for yourself, and victory is in an abundance of counsel.
English Standard Version
for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
New American Standard Bible
For by wise guidance you will wage war, And in an abundance of counselors there is victory.
New Century Version
So you need advice when you go to war. If you have lots of good advice, you will win.
Good News Translation
After all, you must make careful plans before you fight a battle, and the more good advice you get, the more likely you are to win.
Christian Standard Bible®
for you should wage war with sound guidance— victory comes with many counselors.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi batel is bigunnun with ordenaunce, and helthe schal be, where many counsels ben.
Revised Standard Version
for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
Young's Literal Translation
For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance [is] in a multitude of counsellors.

Contextual Overview

3Through [skillful and godly] wisdom a house [a life, a home, a family] is built, And by understanding it is established [on a sound and good foundation], 4And by knowledge its rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches. 5A wise man is strong, And a man of knowledge strengthens his power; 6For by wise guidance you can wage your war, And in an abundance of [wise] counselors there is victory and safety.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

by: Proverbs 20:18, Luke 14:31, 1 Corinthians 9:25-27, Ephesians 6:10-20, 1 Timothy 6:11, 1 Timothy 6:12, 2 Timothy 4:7

and: Proverbs 11:14, Proverbs 15:22

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:2 - Go up Judges 19:30 - consider Judges 20:7 - give here 2 Chronicles 32:3 - took counsel Isaiah 36:5 - vain words

Cross-References

Genesis 24:13
"Behold, I stand here at the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;
Genesis 24:16
The girl was very beautiful, a virgin and unmarried; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
Genesis 24:20
So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran again to the well and drew water for all his camels.
Genesis 24:22
When the camels had finished drinking, Eliezer took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her hands weighing ten shekels in gold,
Galatians 5:1
It was for this freedom that Christ set us free [completely liberating us]; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery [which you once removed].
Hebrews 10:39
But our way is not that of those who shrink back to destruction, but [we are] of those who believe [relying on God through faith in Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and by this confident faith preserve the soul.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land, as in a strange land, living in tents [as nomads] with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For by wise counsel thou shall make thy war,.... Counsel, as well as strength, is necessary for war: kings and states, before they enter on a war, should not only well consider the justness of their cause, but should consult whether they have a sufficiency of men and money to carry it on; and should concert the wisest methods to attack the enemy, or defend themselves; and, above all, should ask counsel of God; see 2 Kings 18:20. And this is true of our spiritual warfare with sin, Satan, the world, and false teachers; which requires not only strength to wage war with them, but wise counsel, that we may be able to understand and guard against their cunning, wiles, and stratagems: and this is principally to be asked of God, who is wonderful in counsel; and of good and experienced men, skilled in those matters;

and in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety; to take the advice of wise counsellors, and many of them, even among men, is safe for princes and states, in the above case and in all others; and especially to ask and take counsel of God, who gives wisdom liberally to them that ask it; and of Christ, the wonderful Counsellor; and from the Scriptures, whom David made his counsellors; and from old experienced Christians, and ministers of the word, with whom are wisdom, counsel, and understanding; 2 Kings 18:20- :.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 24:6. By wise counsel thou shalt make thy warProverbs 20:18.


 
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