Exo 1:10-12, 2Sa 15:31, 34, 17:14, 23, Job 5:12-13, Psa 2:1-4, 9:15 | ESV | STEP | Come , let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply , and, if war breaks out , they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land .

Exodus 1:10-12

10 ^aCome, ^blet us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them ^cto afflict them with heavy ^dburdens. They built for Pharaoh ^estore cities, Pithom and ^fRaamses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 15:31

31 And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please ^gturn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

2 Samuel 15:34

34 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ^h‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

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.” ⁱFor the Lord had ordained ^{▼▼Hebrew commanded} to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to ^khis own city. He ^lset his house in order and ^mhanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Job 5:12-13

12 He ⁿfrustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
13 He ^ocatches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Psalms 2:1-4

The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed

1 ^pWhy do ^qthe nations rage ^{▼▼Or nations noisily assemble}
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his ^sAnointed, saying,
3 “Let us ^tburst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
4 He who ^usits in the heavens ^vlaughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.

Psalms 9:15

15 The nations have sunk in ^wthe pit that they made;
in ^xthe net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.