Verse 6

King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them,“How do you advise me to answer these people?”

Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:7 : 7 I said to myself,‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’
  • Prov 12:15 : 15 The way of a fool is right in his own opinion, but the one who listens to advice is wise.
  • Prov 19:20 : 20 Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.
  • Prov 27:10 : 10 Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.
  • Jer 42:2-5 : 2 They said to him,“Please grant our request and pray to the LORD your God for all those of us who are still left alive here. For, as you yourself can see, there are only a few of us left out of the many there were before. 3 Pray that the LORD your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.” 4 The prophet Jeremiah answered them,“Agreed! I will indeed pray to the LORD your God as you have asked. I will tell you everything the LORD replies in response to you. I will not keep anything back from you.” 5 They answered Jeremiah,“May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do just as the LORD your God sends you to tell us to do.
  • Jer 42:20 : 20 You are making a fatal mistake. For you sent me to the LORD your God and asked me,‘Pray to the LORD our God for us. Tell us what the LORD our God says and we will do it.’
  • 2 Sam 16:20 : 20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel,“Give us your advice. What should we do?”
  • 2 Sam 17:5-6 : 5 But Absalom said,“Call for Hushai the Arkite, and let’s hear what he has to say.” 6 So Hushai came to Absalom. Absalom said to him,“Here is what Ahithophel has advised. Should we follow his advice? If not, what would you recommend?”
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 “For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors; 9 For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
  • Job 12:12-13 : 12 Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding? 13 “With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.