'Consultation' in the Bible

Now Abner had consultation with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past you were seeking for David to be king over you.

Some Manassites defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. However, they did not help the Philistines because the Philistine rulers sent David away after a discussion. They said, “It will be our heads if he defects to his master Saul.”

Without consultation, plans are frustrated,But with many counselors they succeed.

Prepare plans by consultation,And make war by wise guidance.

And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him,

When it was morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) conferred together against Jesus, [plotting how] to put Him to death [since under Roman rule they had no power to execute anyone];

So after consultation they used the money to buy the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers.

So the latter held a conference with the Elders, and after consultation with them they heavily bribed the soldiers,

Then the Pharisees went out and immediately began conspiring with the Herodians [to plot] against Him, as to how they might [fabricate some legal grounds to] put Him to death.

And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.