2 Chronicles 10:6

6 Then King Rehoboam ¹consulted with the elders who had served * his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me to answer * this 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 made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you."

5 He said to them, "Return to me again in three days." So the people departed.

6 Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me to answer this people?"

7 They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever ."

8 But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.

Cross References

• 1. Job 8:8, 9; Job 32:7

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "stood before"