Strong's G1011 βουλεύω (bouleuo)

Ye took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and much people might be fed.

And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in former days, was as if one should inquire of the word of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both to David and also to Absalom.

And Hushai said to Absalom, This counsel which Ahithophel has counseled this one time is not good.

And it came to pass after they were gone, that they came up out of the pit, and went on their way; and reported to King David, and said to David, Arise ye and go quickly over the water, for thus has Ahithophel counseled concerning you.

And the king referred the matter to the elders, who stood before Solomon his father while he was yet living, saying, How do ye advise that I should answer this people?

hitherto to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And the king of Syria was at war with Israel: and he consulted with his servants, saying, I will encamp in such a place.

And David took counsel with the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even with every commander.

And King Rehoboam assembled the elders that stood before his father Solomon in his lifetime, saying, How do ye counsel me to return an answer to this people?

And he said to them, What do ye advise that I should answer this people, who spoke to me, saying, Ease somewhat of the yoke which thy father laid upon us?

And he took counsel with the people, and set appointed men to sing psalms and praises, to give thanks, and sing the holy songs of praise in going forth before the host: and they said, Give thanks to the Lord, For his mercy endures forever.

And Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and sent to Joash, son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, and let us look one another in the face.

For the king, and the princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, designed to keep the Passover in the second month.

And the congregation purposed together to keep other seven days: and they kept seven days with gladness.

And he took counsel with his elders and his mighty men to stop the wells of water which were without the city: and they helped him.

And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.

For I heard the slander of many that dwelt round about: When they were gathered together against me, They took counsel to take my life.

They only took counsel to set at nought mine honor: I ran in thirst: With their mouth they blessed, but with their heart they cursed. Pause.

For mine enemies have spoken against me; And they that lay wait for my soul have taken counsel together,

Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, And have taken counsel against thy saints.

For they have taken counsel together with one consent: They have made a confederacy against thee;

But counsel abides in the hearts of counselors.

Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

And as for the son of Aram, and the son of Remaliah, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel, saying,

And whatsoever counsel ye shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatsoever word ye shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so the matter shall remain:

This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.

For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?

take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at midday; they are amazed; be not thou led captive.

Where are now thy wise men? and let them declare to thee, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt?

And the land of the Jews shall be for a terror to the Egyptians: whosoever shall name it to them, they shall fear, because of the counsel which the Lord of hosts has purposed concerning it.

Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.

Turn, ye children of Israel, who devise a deep and sinful counsel.

For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and ruin the cause of the poor in judgment.

But the godly have devised wise measures, and this counsel shall stand.

Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, ye that escape of the nations: they that set up wood, even their graven image, have no knowledge, nor they who pray to gods that do not save.

telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, All my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned: I have spoken, and brought him; I have created and made him; I have brought him, and prospered his way.

And thou hast forgotten God who made thee, who made the sky and founded the earth; and thou wert continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted thee: for whereas he counseled to take thee away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted thee?

Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting it: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.

Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has framed against Edom; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.

Flee ye, dig very deep for a dwelling place, ye that dwell in the palace; for the king of Babylon has framed a counsel, and devised a device against you.

And the Lord said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise vanities, and take evil counsel in this city:

O my people, remember now, what counsel Balak king of Moab took against thee, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from the reeds to Gilgal; that the righteousness of the Lord might be known.

Thou hast devised shame to thy house, thou hast utterly destroyed many nations, and thy soul has sinned.

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?

But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.

And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.

And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.

When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

Yea, what things thou didst determine were ready at hand, and said, Lo, we are here: for all thy ways are prepared, and thy judgments are in thy foreknowledge.

Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.

and make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who have purposed cruel things against thy covenant, and thy hallowed house, and against the top of Zion, and against the house of the possession of thy children.

for their victuals fail them, and all their water is scant, and they have determined to lay hands upon their cattle, and purposed to consume all those things, that God hath forbidden them to eat by his laws:

Then said Judith unto him, As thy soul liveth, my lord, thy handmaid shall not spend those things that I have, before the Lord work by my hand the things that he hath determined.

At that time therefore they decreed, saying, Whosoever shall come to make battle with us on the Sabbath day, we will fight against him: neither will we die all, as our brethren that were murdered in the secret places.

Wherefore, being greatly perplexed in his mind, he determined to go into Persia, there to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which was profaned;

Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.

Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and assaulted of them.

Moreover how the Grecians had determined to come and destroy them;

moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house, wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily, consulting always for the people, to the end they might be well ordered:

Howbeit if hereafter the one party or the other shall think meet to add or diminish anything, they may do it at their pleasures, and whatsoever they shall add or take away shall be ratified.

Then all the ungodly men held a council, saying, Behold, Jonathan and his company are at ease, and dwell without care: now therefore we will bring Bacchides hither, who shall take them all in one night.

Wherefore he was very wroth at the wicked men that gave him counsel to come into the country, insomuch as he slew many of them, and purposed to return into his own country.

After this came Jonathan home again, and calling the elders of the people together, he consulted with them about building strongholds in Judea,

The people therefore, seeing the acts of Simon, and unto what glory he thought to bring his nation, made him their governor and chief priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to exalt his people.

Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.

And Judas, being apart with the elders, determined, before the king’s host should enter into Judea, and get the city, to go forth and try the matter in fight by the help of the Lord.

But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon them on the Sabbath day.

he was so struck with the exact magnificence of the place, and so wondered at the orderly arrangements of the temple, that he conceived the purpose of entering the sanctuary itself.

For they shall see the end of the wise, And shall not understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, And to what end the Lord hath set him in safety.

And when they had determined to slay the babes of the saints, One child being cast forth, and saved, To reprove them, thou tookest away the multitude of their children, And destroyedst them all together in a mighty water.

An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, But in his heart he imagineth how to throw thee into a pit: He will weep with his eyes, But if he find opportunity, he will not be satisfied with blood.

Beware of a counselor, And know before what need he hath; For he will counsel for himself; Lest he cast the lot upon thee,

Consult not with one that suspecteth thee: And hide thy counsel from such as envy thee.

Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, Men renowned for their power, Giving counsel by their understanding, And declaring prophecies:

For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.