2Sa 17:14, 1Ki 22:20-22, Job 39:17, Isa 19:3, 13-14, Eze 14:7-9 | ESV | STEP | And Absalom and all the men of Israel said , The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel . For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel , so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom .

h[See ver. 11 above]

i Jer. 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezek. 30:13, 16

j[Zech. 10:4]

k[1 Kgs. 22:22]

l[ch. 24:20; 29:9]

m[See ver. 5 above]

n[ver. 4]

o ch. 15:7; Lev. 17:10; Jer. 44:11

p ch. 5:15; Deut. 28:37

q ch. 15:7; Lev. 17:10; Jer. 44:11

rSee ch. 6:7

s[1 Kgs. 22:23]

2 Samuel 17:14

14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” ^aFor the Lord had ordained ^{▼▼Hebrew commanded} to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.

1 Kings 22:20-22

20 and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. 21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ 22 And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be ^ca lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’

Job 39:17

17 because God has made her forget wisdom
and ^dgiven her no share in understanding.

Isaiah 19:3

3 and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound ^{▼▼Or I will swallow up} their ^fcounsel;
and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers,
and ^gthe mediums and the necromancers;

Isaiah 19:13-14

13 The princes of ^hZoan have become fools,
and the princes of ⁱMemphis are deluded;
those who are the ^jcornerstones of her tribes
have made Egypt stagger.
14 The Lord has mingled within her ^ka spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
^las a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Ezekiel 14:7-9

7 For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, ^mwho separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, ⁿI the Lord will answer him myself. 8 And ^oI will set my face against that man; I ^pwill make him a sign and a byword ^qand cut him off from the midst of my people, ^rand you shall know that I am the Lord. 9 And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, ^sI, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.