1 Kings 20:7

Ahab gathers the elders, pointing out that Ben-Hadad seeks open trouble despite his earlier concession. The king seeks counsel against the new demands.

Cross-references · 15

• 2 Kgs 5:7When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”
• Job 15:35They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
• Prov 6:14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
• Dan 11:27As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
• Prov 11:27He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
• Ps 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
• 1 Chr 13:1David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
• Prov 24:2for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.
• Ps 7:14Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
• 1 Chr 28:1David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.
• Prov 11:14Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
• Ps 140:2those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.
• 1 Kgs 8:1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
• Rom 3:13–18“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;
• Ps 62:3How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

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