took counsel

Job 12:12, 13
Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life. . . .

Job 32:7
I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.

Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.

Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

Proverbs 27:10
Do not forsake your friend or your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Jeremiah 42:2-5, 20
Jeremiah the prophet and said, "May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes. . . .

What counsel

2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

2 Samuel 17:5, 6
Then Absalom said, "Summon Hushai the Archite as well, and let us hear what he too has to say." . . .