the Lord

2 Samuel 15:31
Now someone told David: "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." So David pleaded, "O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!"

Genesis 32:28
Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed."

Exodus 9:16
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display to you My power, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might give him into your hands, as is the case this day.

2 Chronicles 25:16, 20
While he was still speaking, the king asked, "Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?" So the prophet stopped, but he said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice." . . .

appointed [heb] commanded

Psalm 33:9, 10
For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood fast. . . .

Lamentations 3:37
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

Amos 9:3
Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

to defeat

2 Samuel 15:34
but if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, my king! In the past I was your father's servant, but now I will be your servant, ' then you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

2 Samuel 16:23
Now in those days the advice of Ahithophel was like the consultation of the word of God. Such was the regard that both David and Absalom had for Ahithophel's advice.

Job 5:12-14
He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success. . . .

Proverbs 19:21
Many plans are in a man's heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.

Proverbs 21:30
No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel can prevail against the LORD.

Isaiah 8:10
Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us."

1 Corinthians 1:19, 20
For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." . . .

1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness."

good counsel

Luke 16:8
The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.