THEOSISProverbs 20:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.
מַ֭חֲשָׁבוֹת בְּעֵצָ֣ה תִכּ֑וֹן וּ֝בְתַחְבֻּל֗וֹת עֲשֵׂ֣ה מִלְחָמָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 24:6Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.
- Prov 15:22Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.
- Luke 14:31Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?
- Prov 11:14Where there is no governor, the people shall fall: but there is safety where there is much counsel.
- Judg 1:1After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?
- Judg 1:2And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold I have delivered the land into his hands.
- Judg 20:18And they arose and came to the house of God, that is, to Silo: and they consulted God, and said: Who shall be in our army the first to go to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord answered them: Let Juda be your leader.
- Judg 20:7You are all here, O children of Israel, determine what you ought to do.