2 Chronicles 10:6

6 King Rechav'am consulted the older men who had been in attendance on Shlomo his father during his lifetime and asked, "What advice would you give me as to how to answer these people?"

2 Chronicles 10:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 12:6

(See Gill on 1 Kings 12:6).

2 Chronicles 10:6 In-Context

4 "Your father laid a harsh yoke on us. But if you will lighten the harsh service we had to render your father and ease his heavy yoke that he put on us, we will serve you."

5 He said to them, "Come back to me after three days." So the people left.

6 King Rechav'am consulted the older men who had been in attendance on Shlomo his father during his lifetime and asked, "What advice would you give me as to how to answer these people?"

7 They said to him, "If you will treat these people kindly, pleasing them and giving them favorable consideration, they will be your servants forever."

8 But he didn't take the advice the older men gave him; instead he consulted the young men he had grown up with, who were now his attendants.