he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.
for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”
Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel?
He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest, and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month—
The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?
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