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The concept of "planned" in the Bible often relates to the divine orchestration and foreknowledge of God. Throughout Scripture, God's plans are depicted as sovereign, purposeful, and ultimately for the good of His creation and the fulfillment of His divine will.

Divine Planning and Sovereignty

The Bible frequently emphasizes that God is a planner who orchestrates events according to His will. In Isaiah 46:10, God declares, "I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’" This verse highlights God's omniscience and His ability to plan the course of history.

Jeremiah 29:11 is another key verse that reflects God's intentional planning for His people: "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope." This assurance was given to the Israelites during their exile, emphasizing that even in difficult times, God's plans are for their ultimate welfare.

Human Planning and Responsibility

While God's plans are paramount, the Bible also acknowledges human planning. Proverbs 16:9 states, "A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps." This suggests that while humans can make plans, it is ultimately God who guides and establishes the outcome. Proverbs 19:21 further reinforces this idea: "Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail."

The Bible encourages wise and prudent planning, as seen in Proverbs 21:5: "The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty." This verse underscores the value of careful planning and diligence in achieving success.

Examples of Divine Planning in Scripture

1. Creation: The creation narrative in Genesis 1 demonstrates God's orderly and purposeful planning. Each day of creation builds upon the previous one, culminating in the creation of humanity, made in God's image.

2. The Life of Joseph: Joseph's account in Genesis 37-50 is a profound example of God's providential planning. Despite being sold into slavery by his brothers, Joseph rises to a position of power in Egypt. In Genesis 50:20, Joseph acknowledges God's hand in his life: "As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people."

3. The Coming of Christ: The coming of Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of God's redemptive plan, prophesied throughout the Old Testament. Galatians 4:4-5 states, "But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons." This highlights the meticulous timing and purpose in God's plan for salvation.

God's Plans for the Future

The Bible also speaks of God's future plans, particularly concerning the end times and the establishment of His eternal kingdom. Revelation 21:1-4 describes the new heaven and new earth, where God will dwell with His people, and there will be no more death, mourning, crying, or pain. This vision of the future reflects God's ultimate plan for restoration and eternal fellowship with humanity.

In summary, the concept of "planned" in the Bible underscores the belief in a sovereign God who orchestrates history and individual lives according to His divine purpose. While humans are encouraged to plan wisely, it is ultimately God's plans that prevail, offering hope and assurance to believers.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(imp. & p. p.) of Plan.

Greek

1011. bouleuo -- to take counsel, deliberate
... Word Origin from boule Definition to take counsel, deliberate NASB Word Usage consider
(1), planned (1), planned together (1), purpose (2), resolved (1). ...
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4388. protithemi -- to set before, ie propose
... Word Origin from pro and tithemi Definition to set before, ie propose NASB Word
Usage displayed publicly (1), planned (1), purposed (1). purpose, set forth. ...
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1014. boulomai -- to will
... verb Definition to will NASB Word Usage am (1), desire (2), desires (1), desiring
(1), intend (1), intended (3), intending (1), like (1), planned (1), unwilling ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6246. ashith -- to think, plan
... 6245b, 6246. ashith or ashith. 6247 . to think, plan. Transliteration: ashith
or ashith Phonetic Spelling: (ash-eeth') Short Definition: planned. ...
/hebrew/6246.htm - 6k

3820. leb -- inner man, mind, will, heart
... 2), intelligence (1), kindly (5), life (1), merry-hearted* (1), middle (2), midst
(1), mind (36), minds (3), myself (6), obstinate* (2), planned* (1), presume ...
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3289. yaats -- to advise, counsel
... 11), decided (3), devised (2), devises (2), formed (1), gave (1), give (2), give
you advice (1), give you counsel (1), given (4), planned (8), purposed (1 ...
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2803. chashab -- to think, account
... 1), esteem (2), esteemed (2), execute (1), have (1), impute (1), intend (2), make
(2), makers (1), meant (2), mindful (1), plan (2), planned (3), planning (5 ...
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1819. damah -- to be like, resemble
... compared (1), equal (1), gave parables (1), imagine (1), intend (1), intended (2),
like (9), liken (3), make myself like (1), plan (1), planned (1), resemble (1 ...
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3335. yatsar -- to form, fashion
... 1), fashioned (1), fashioning (2), fashions (1), formed (20), forming (2), forms
(2), made (1), Maker (2), maker (4), ordained (1), planned (4), potter (9 ...
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5921. al -- upon, above, over
... 1), opposite (1), opposite* (4), ornamented* (1), over (538), over* (6), overflowing*
(1), overflows* (1), overlooks* (3), part (1), planned* (1), pleased* (1 ...
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935. bo -- to come in, come, go in, go
... 1), invades (1), keep on coming (1), laid (1), Lebo-hamath (6), led (3), lifted
(1), mentioned (1), migration (1), now (1), once (1), planned* (1), present (1 ...
/hebrew/935.htm - 8k

Library

A Very Old Question.
... obstacles. And so the road is cleared for the free action already planned. ... too.
Then what He knows we need He has already planned to give. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on prayer/a very old question.htm

Joy in Salvation
... many ways. It was his in the planning. None but himself could have planned
it. In his infinite wisdom he devised it. The salvation ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 62 1916/joy in salvation.htm

College Voluntary Study Courses
... Therefore the text-books are planned for the use of student classes in the Sunday
School, as well as for the supplementary groups on the campus. ...
/.../the social principles of jesus/college voluntary study courses.htm

Second Causes.
... God, thy God, was there! If there be perplexing accompaniments, be assured they
were of His permitting; all was planned"wisely, kindly planned. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/macduff/memories of bethany/xi second causes.htm

The Word of God is Also the Wisdom of God the Going Forth of ...
... in His presence." [7822] Now, as soon as it pleased God to put forth into their
respective substances and forms the things which He had planned and ordered ...
/.../tertullian/against praxeas/chapter vi the word of god.htm

Eighth Tractate. The Soul's Descent into Body.
... soul was given by the goodness of the creator to the end that the total of things
might be possessed of intellect, for thus intellectual it was planned to be ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/eighth tractate the souls descent.htm

How to Overcome Disappointment
... Of course you have, again and again. Does it hurt very much when things do not go
as you have planned and hoped? Does it seem as if you "just can't stand it"? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk forty-two how to overcome.htm

Yoked Service.
... Jesus has every man's life planned. ... With loving strong thoughtfulness He has thought
into each of our lives, and planned it out, in whole, and in detail. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/yoked service.htm

In Step with Jesus.
... There is a great Commander-in-chief to this campaign. He has the whole campaign
for a world carefully planned out. And each man's part in it is planned too. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/in step with jesus.htm

Some of God's Failures.
... He planned a great kingdom to overspread the earth in its rule and blessed
influence, but not by the aggression of war and oppression. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/some of gods failures.htm

Thesaurus

Planned (34 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Planned (34 Occurrences). ... (See NAS). John 11:53 So from
that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death. ...
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Quotations
... CONSTRUCTIVE PRINCIPLES OF NEW TESTAMENT QUOTATION 1. Unity of the Two Dispensations
2. Biblical Movement Planned from the Beginning 3. The Old Testament ...
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Ahab (85 Occurrences)
... In all this she aimed at more than a syncretism of the two religions; she planned
to destroy the religion of Yahweh root and branch and put that of Baal in its ...
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Jehovah (20094 Occurrences)
... The world had vastly changed during those long decades when politicians had planned,
armies surged back and forth, and tribes and nations had lost or won in ...
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Sodomite (1 Occurrence)
... CONSTRUCTIVE PRINCIPLES OF NEW TESTAMENT QUOTATION 1. Unity of the Two Dispensations
2. Biblical Movement Planned from the Beginning 3. The Old Testament ...
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Servant (738 Occurrences)
... The world had vastly changed during those long decades when politicians had planned,
armies surged back and forth, and tribes and nations had lost or won in ...
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Yahweh (6653 Occurrences)
... The world had vastly changed during those long decades when politicians had planned,
armies surged back and forth, and tribes and nations had lost or won in ...
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Planks (9 Occurrences)

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Planning (8 Occurrences)

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Honorable (42 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 23:8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants
are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? ...
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Resources

How should a Christian view Planned Parenthood? | GotQuestions.org

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God vs. Satan - if God is all-powerful, why does He not just kill Satan? | GotQuestions.org

Planned: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Planned (34 Occurrences)

Matthew 1:19
Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
(See NAS)

John 11:53
So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death.
(WEY NAS)

John 12:10
But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
(See NAS RSV)

Acts 15:37
Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.
(WEB)

Acts 20:3
The Jews having planned to waylay him whenever he might be on the point of taking ship for Syria, he decided to travel back by way of Macedonia.
(WEY)

Acts 27:39
When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.
(See RSV)

Acts 27:42
The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.
(See NIV)

Romans 1:13
Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
(WEB NAS NIV)

2 Corinthians 1:15
In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;
(See NIV)

1 Samuel 18:25
Saul said, "You shall tell David,'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
(See NAS)

2 Samuel 14:13
The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.
(See NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 21:5
They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
(See NAS RSV)

2 Kings 19:25
Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 7:11
Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's house: and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house.
(See NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 32:3
he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.
(See RSV)

Psalms 40:5
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
(See NIV)

Psalms 140:4
O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 30:32
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, Lay thy hand upon thy mouth.
(See JPS NIV)

Isaiah 7:5
Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying,
(See NAS)

Isaiah 14:24
The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 14:27
For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
(WEB NAS)

Isaiah 19:12
Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 22:11
And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 23:8
Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
(WEB NAS NIV)

Isaiah 23:9
Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
(WEB NAS NIV)

Isaiah 25:1
Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
(WEB NIV)

Isaiah 37:26
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 46:11
Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 18:8
if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 48:2
The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.
(See RSV)

Jeremiah 49:20
Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 50:45
Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 51:12
Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.
(See RSV)

Daniel 6:3
Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

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