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Proverbs 20:18
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Plans are established by advice; By wise guidance you wage war!
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
Prepare plans by consultation, And make war by wise guidance.
Get advice if you want your plans to work. If you go to war, get the advice of others.
Plans are established by counsel; So make war [only] with wise guidance.
Plans are established by advice; By wise guidance you wage war!
Establish the thoughtes by counsell: and by counsell make warre.
Thoughts are established by counsel,So make war by guidance.
Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
Be sure you have sound advice before making plans or starting a war.
After consultation, plans succeed; so take wise advice when waging war.
Plans are established by counsel; and with good advice make war.
Get good advice when you make your plans. Before you start a war, find good advisors.
A good purpose is established by counsel; but by provocation war is made.
Get good advice and you will succeed; don't go charging into battle without a plan.
A plan will be established by advice, and with guidance make war.
Purposes are established in counsel; yea, make war with wise guidance.
Thorow councell the thinges that men deuyse go forwarde: & with discrecion ought warres to be taken in honde.
Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance make thou war.
Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.
Every purpose is established by counsel; and with good advice carry on war.
Euery purpose is established by counsell: and with good aduice make warre.
Thorowe counsayle, the thinges that men deuise are made strong: and with good aduise take warre in hande.
Every purpose is established by counsel: and by wise guidance make thou war,
Thouytis ben maad strong bi counselis; and bateils schulen be tretid bi gouernals.
Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance make war.
[Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Plans are established by counsel, so make war with guidance.
Plans are established by counsel; By wise counsel wage war.
Plans succeed through good counsel; don't go to war without wise advice.
Make plans by listening to what others have to say, and make war by listening to the leading of wise men.
Plans are established by taking advice; wage war by following wise guidance.
Plans - by counsel, shalt thou establish, and, with concerted measures, make thou war.
Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.
Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.
Form your purpose by asking for counsel, then carry it out using all the help you can get.
Prepare plans by consultation, And make war by wise guidance.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
purpose: Proverbs 15:22, Proverbs 24:6
and: Proverbs 25:8, Judges 1:1, Judges 1:2, Judges 9:29, Judges 20:7, Judges 20:18, Judges 20:23, Judges 20:26-28, 2 Samuel 2:26, 2 Samuel 2:27, 2 Chronicles 25:17-23, Luke 14:31
Reciprocal: Joshua 7:2 - Go up Joshua 22:13 - sent Judges 18:2 - to spy Judges 19:30 - consider 2 Samuel 2:14 - play before 1 Kings 1:12 - let me 1 Kings 20:22 - strengthen 2 Kings 6:8 - took 2 Kings 14:8 - Come 2 Chronicles 32:3 - took counsel Proverbs 13:10 - with Proverbs 16:12 - for Acts 12:20 - but
Cross-References
But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.”
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld offspring from you?”
Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.
The people of Gath then sent the ark of God to Ekron, but when it got there, the Ekronites cried out, “They’ve moved the ark of Israel’s God to us to kill us and our people!”
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[Every] purpose is established by counsel,.... Or "the thought" f of a man, everyone of them, what he has thought to do, formed a scheme of in his mind, and resolved upon, by taking advice of his friends, and especially by asking counsel of God, who gives, wisdom liberally, and upbraids not; he is confirmed in his good designs; and he cheerfully pursues them, and they are ordered and directed to the glory of God, his own good and the good of others; for this can only be understood of wise and good thoughts and purposes;
and with good advice make war; this should not be entered upon rashly, without first considering whether there is a just and lawful cause of it; and without consulting the necessary charge and expense of it; whether there is a sufficiency of men and money to carry it on; and what may probably be the issue of it. It is right in a king to advise with his privy council, or with the chief council of the nation; but, above all, both he and his people should seek advice of the Lord on such an occasion; see Luke 14:31. This may be applied to our spiritual warfare with sin, Satan, and the world; not that it should be any doubt with whether we should engage in such a war; but we should advise with experienced soldiers, and especially with God and his word, what weapons to take, and how to use them; and consider in whose name and strength we are to fight; and inquire and learn the force, methods, and designs of the enemy, and where to guard against them or attack them. Jarchi interprets it of making war with Satan by repentance, prayer, and fasting.
f ××ש××ת "cogitationes", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Gejerus; "unaquaeque cogitationum", Piscator, Mercerus, Michaelis.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:18. With good advice make war, — Perhaps there is not a precept in this whole book so little regarded as this. Most of the wars that are undertaken are wars of injustice, ambition, aggrandizement, and caprice, which can have had no previous good counsel. A minister, who is perhaps neither a good nor a great man, counsels his king to make war; the cabinet must be brought into it, and a sufficient number out of the states of the kingdom gained over to support it. By and by, what was begun through caprice must be maintained through necessity. Places must be created, and offices must be filled with needy dependents, whose interest it may be to protract the war, till they get enough to pay their debts, and secure independence for life. And for these most important ends the blood of the country is spilled, and the treasures of the people exhausted! I have met with a fact precisely of this kind under the reign of Louis XIV.
