Proverbs 15:22
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
BSB
ASV
Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
KJV
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
But in the multitude of counsellors - See note on Pro 11:13 (note). But רב יועצים rob yoatsim might be translated, chief or master of the council, the prime minister.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 11:14For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
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Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.
Through
Ecclesiastes 8:6For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
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To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
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Proverbs 20:18Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
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Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”
