2 Chronicles 10:6
And King Rehoboam consults with the aged men who have been standing before his father Solomon in his being alive, saying, “How are you counseling to answer this people?”
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5And he says to them, “Yet three days—then return to me”; and the people go.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:5And Absalom says, “Now call for Hushai the Archite also, and we hear what [is] in his mouth—even he.”
Job 12:12With the very aged [is] wisdom, || And [with] length of days [is] understanding.
Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes, || And whoever is listening to counsel [is] wise.
Proverbs 27:10Do not forsake your own friend and the friend of your father, || And do not enter the house of your brother in a day of your calamity, || A near neighbor [is] better than a brother far off.
Jeremiah 42:20for you have showed yourselves perverse in your souls, for you sent me to your God YHWH, saying, Pray for us to our God YHWH, and according to all that our God YHWH says, so declare to us, and we have done [it];
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 10:2-12
Rehoboam Succeeds Solomon. ( b. c. 975.) 1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king. 2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. 3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying, 4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his… Read the whole commentary →