2Sa 16:21-17:4, Mar 14:10-11, Act 23:14-15, Rom 1:32 | ESV | STEP | Ahithophel said to Absalom , Go in to your father’s concubines , whom he has left to keep the house , and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father , and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened .

2 Samuel 16:21-23

21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to ^ayour father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and ^bthe hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.” 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom ^con the roof. And Absalom went in to his father’s concubines ^din the sight of all Israel. 23 Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, ^eboth by David and by Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:1-4

Hushai Saves David

1 Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight. 2 I will come upon him while he is ^fweary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. ^gI will strike down only the king, 3 and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew back to you. Like the return of the whole is the man whom you seek} and all the people will be at peace.” 4 And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

Mark 14:10-11

Judas to Betray Jesus

10 ⁱThen ^jJudas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, ^kwent to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. 11 And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to ^lbetray him.

Acts 23:14-15

14 They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul. 15 Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

Romans 1:32

32 Though they know ^mGod’s righteous decree that those who practice such things ⁿdeserve to die, they not only do them but ^ogive approval to those who practice them.