the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 20:18
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Thoughts are established by counsel,So make war by guidance.
Prepare plans by consultation, And make war by wise guidance.
Thorowe counsayle, the thinges that men deuise are made strong: and with good aduise take warre in hande.
Plans are established by counsel; and with good advice make war.
Plans are established by counsel; By wise counsel wage war.
Purposes are established in counsel; yea, make war with wise guidance.
Get good advice when you make your plans. Before you start a war, find good advisors.
Plans are established by advice; By wise guidance you wage war!
Euery purpose is established by counsell: and with good aduice make warre.
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Thorow councell the thinges that men deuyse go forwarde: & with discrecion ought warres to be taken in honde.
Form your purpose by asking for counsel, then carry it out using all the help you can get.
Plans are established by counsel; So make war [only] with wise guidance.
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 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.
Be sure you have sound advice before making plans or starting a war.
After consultation, plans succeed; so take wise advice when waging war.
Establish the thoughtes by counsell: and by counsell make warre.
A good purpose is established by counsel; but by provocation war is made.
Plans are established by advice; By wise guidance you wage war!
Every purpose is established by counsel; and with good advice carry on war.
Make plans by listening to what others have to say, and make war by listening to the leading of wise men.
Every purpose is established by counsel: and by wise guidance make thou war,
Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
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.
A plan will be established by advice, and with guidance 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.
Get good advice and you will succeed; don't go charging into battle without a plan.
Finalize plans with counsel, and wage war with sound guidance.
Thouytis ben maad strong bi counselis; and bateils schulen be tretid bi gouernals.
Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.
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 sent terrible plagues upon Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
So Sarai said to Abram, "The Lord has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her." And Abram agreed with Sarai's proposal.
Now return the woman to her husband, and he will pray for you, for he is a prophet. Then you will live. But if you don't return her to him, you can be sure that you and all your people will die."
Then Jacob became furious with Rachel. "Am I God?" he asked. "He's the one who has kept you from having children!"
So Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her because the Lord had kept her from having children.
So they sent the Ark of God to the town of Ekron, but when the people of Ekron saw it coming they cried out, "They are bringing the Ark of the God of Israel here to kill us, too!"
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 מחשבות "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.
