To DEVISE, plan, reckon, intend — the verb of deliberate purpose (it is also the word for accounting: to reckon something to someone's account, as at 15:6, 'he reckoned it to him as righteousness'). Genesis 50:20 uses it TWICE, of two different agents, over one event: 'you CHASHAV evil against me; God CHASHAV it for good.' ⚠️ Notice what the sentence does not say. It does not say the evil was secretly good; the object of the first verb is RA'AH, evil, flatly. It does not deny they did it — three verses earlier their own message calls it 'the transgression of your brothers and their sin.' And it does not say God made them do it. Two agents, one event, opposite intentions, both intentions real. It is the fully developed form of what Joseph said in the heat of the reveal at 45:8 ('it was not you who sent me here, but God'), now restated with the guilt left in. KJV 'ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good.' ⚠ Jeremiah 18 runs the same root four times in one chapter, and the sequence is the plot in miniature: the evil God DEVISED and can drop (18:8); the DEVICE God is now devising against Judah (18:11); 'our own DEVICES', which the people prefer (18:12); and at last 'let us DEVISE DEVICES against Jeremiah' (18:18). God devises, the people counter-devise, and then they aim one at the man who told them about it. → first discussed at Gen 50:20