2 Chronicles 10:6

King Rehoboam consulted with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he was alive; he said, “How would you advise me to bring an answer to these people?”

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In The King James Version

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

In Context

5Rehoboam said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people left.

7They spoke to him and said, “If you are good to this people and please them, and say good words to them, then they will always be your servants.”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 17:5Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Arkite, too, and let us hear what he says.”

Job 12:12With aged men is wisdom; 1 in length of days is understanding. 1

Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, 1 but a wise man listens to advice. 1

Proverbs 27:10Do not forsake your friend and your friend's father, 1 and do not go to your brother's house on the day of your calamity. 1 Better is a neighbor who is nearby than a brother who is far away. 1

Jeremiah 42:20For you fatally deceived yourselves when you sent me to Yahweh your God and said, 'Pray to Yahweh our God for us. Everything that Yahweh our God says, tell us, and we will carry it out.'

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 →

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