Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation King Rehoboam consulted the older men who had served as his father Solomon's advisers. "What answer do you advise me to give these people?" he asked. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people? took counsel Job 12:12,13 In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence. . . . Job 32:7 For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom. Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels. Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end. Proverbs 27:10 Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not: and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother afar off. Jeremiah 42:2-5,20 And they said to Jeremiah the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us. . . . What counsel 2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 2 Samuel 17:5,6 But Absalom said: Call Chusai the Arachite, and let us hear what he also saith. . . . Context Rebellion Against Rehoboam…5And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone, 6He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?7And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.… Cross References 2 Chronicles 10:5 And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone, Job 8:8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow) Job 32:7 For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom. Proverbs 27:10 Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not: and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother afar off. Jump to Previous Advise Alive Consulted Counsel Elders Lifetime Rehoboam Rehobo'am Served Solomon StoodJump to Next Advise Alive Consulted Counsel Elders Lifetime Rehoboam Rehobo'am Served Solomon StoodLinks 2 Chronicles 10:6 NIV2 Chronicles 10:6 NLT 2 Chronicles 10:6 ESV 2 Chronicles 10:6 NASB 2 Chronicles 10:6 Bible Apps 2 Chronicles 10:6 Biblia Paralela 2 Chronicles 10:6 Chinese Bible 2 Chronicles 10:6 French Bible 2 Chronicles 10:6 German Bible Alphabetical: advise alive answer asked consulted counsel do during elders father had he his How King lifetime me people Rehoboam saying served Solomon still the Then these this to was while who with would you OT History: 2 Chronicles 10:6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |