Quotes about Consultation

“Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.

So I issued a decree that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me.

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.

Wherefore, whoever he be who deems himself happy because of license to revile, he would be far happier if that were not allowed him at all; for he might all the while, laying aside empty boast, be contradicting those to whose views he is opposed by way of free consultation with them, and be listening, as it becomes him, honorably, gravely, candidly, to all that can be adduced by those whom he consults by friendly disputation.

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here of whom we can inquire?”

Then Jehoshaphat consulted with the people and appointed those who would sing to the LORD and praise the splendor of His holiness. As they went out before the army, they were singing: “Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures forever.”

casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.

“Why do you consult me,” asked Samuel, “since the LORD has turned away from you and become your enemy?

The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,