Proverbs 20:18
Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
BSB
ASV
Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance make thou war.
KJV
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
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.
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 15:22Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
leads to
For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
Through
Proverbs 11:14For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
leads to
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
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
Proverbs 24:6Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
leads to
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
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?
