1 Rois 12:8

8 Mais il ne suivit pas le conseil que les vieillards lui avaient donné; et il consulta les jeunes gens qui avaient grandi avec lui et qui se tenaient devant lui;

1 Rois 12:8 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 12:8

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given
him
He did not rightly relish it, nor cordially receive it; it did not suit with his haughty temper, he could not brook it, to stoop to his people; he thought it a lessening of his dignity to do anything that looked like courting their favour; and therefore determined not to take the advice given him by the old men, but to seek for other:

and consulted with the men, that were grown up with him, and which
stood before him;
the sons of nobles, with whom he had his education, and who were his companions from his youth upwards, and who were now officers in his court, and of his privy council, being his favourites, and those he consulted on this occasion; and though they are called young men, as they were in comparison of the old men, yet since they were contemporary with Rehoboam, who was now forty one years of age, they must be about forty, or not much under, and at an age to be wiser than they appeared to be.

1 Rois 12:8 In-Context

6 Et le roi Roboam consulta les vieillards qui avaient été auprès de Salomon, son père, pendant sa vie, et il leur dit: Quelle réponse me conseillez-vous de faire à ce peuple?

7 Et ils lui parlèrent en ces termes: Si aujourd'hui tu rends ce service à ce peuple, si tu leur cèdes, et leur réponds par de bonnes paroles, ils seront tes serviteurs à toujours.

8 Mais il ne suivit pas le conseil que les vieillards lui avaient donné; et il consulta les jeunes gens qui avaient grandi avec lui et qui se tenaient devant lui;

9 Et il leur dit: Que me conseillez-vous de répondre à ce peuple qui m'a parlé et m'a dit: Allège le joug que ton père a mis sur nous?

10 Alors les jeunes gens qui avaient grandi avec lui, lui parlèrent et lui dirent: Tu parleras ainsi à ce peuple qui t'est venu dire: Ton père a mis sur nous un joug pesant, mais toi, allège-le; tu leur parleras ainsi: Mon petit doigt est plus gros que les reins de mon père.