Verse 8

But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 10:8 : 8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.
• 2 Chr 25:15-16 : 15 The LORD was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said,“Why are you following these gods that could not deliver their own people from your power?” 16 While he was speaking, Amaziah said to him,“Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” So the prophet stopped, but added,“I know that God has decided to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”
• Prov 1:2-5 : 2 To learn wisdom and moral instruction, to discern wise counsel. 3 To receive moral instruction in skillful living, with righteousness, justice, and equity. 4 To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, a discerning plan to the young person. 5 (Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)
• Prov 1:25 : 25 and you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,
• Prov 1:30 : 30 they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.
• Prov 19:20 : 20 Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.
• Prov 25:12 : 12 Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.
• Eccl 10:2-3 : 2 Wisdom Can Be Nullified By the Caprice of Rulers A wise person’s good sense protects him, but a fool’s lack of sense leaves him vulnerable. 3 Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, and shows everyone what a fool he is.