the advice

2 Chronicles 22:4, 5
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father. . . .

Proverbs 12:5
The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.

Daniel 6:7
All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.

My father

2 Kings 10:10, 11
Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah." . . .

Proverbs 17:14
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all the labor at which I have worked skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 7:8
The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

James 3:14-18
But if you harbor in your hearts bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, do not boast in it or deny the truth. . . .

James 4:1, 2
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don't they come from the passions at war within you? . . .