18Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
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For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18)Note, 1. It is good in every thing to act with deliberation, and to consult with ourselves at least, and, in matters of moment, with our friends, too, before we determine, but especially to ask counsel of God, and beg direction from him, and observe the guidance of this eye. This is the way to have both our minds and our purposes established, and to succeed well in our affairs; whereas what is don…
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