Jesus used this word to introduce another situation where people count the cost before making a decision.
## what king … will not sit down first and take counsel ##
This starts off another rhetorical question. It can be translated as as statement: "You know that a king … would sit down first and take counsel." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
## take counsel ##
Possible meanings are 1) "think carefully about" or 2) "listen to his advisors"