1 Re 12:8

8 Ma Roboamo abbandonò il consiglio datogli dai vecchi, e si consigliò coi giovani ch’eran cresciuti con lui ed erano al suo servizio,

1 Re 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 Re 12:8 In-Context

6 Il re Roboamo si consigliò coi vecchi ch’erano stati al servizio del re Salomone suo padre mentre era vivo, e disse: "Che mi consigliate voi di rispondere a questo popolo?"

7 E quelli gli parlarono così: "Se oggi tu ti fai servo di questo popolo, se tu gli cedi, se gli rispondi e gli parli con bontà, ti sarà servo per sempre".

8 Ma Roboamo abbandonò il consiglio datogli dai vecchi, e si consigliò coi giovani ch’eran cresciuti con lui ed erano al suo servizio,

9 e disse loro: "Come consigliate voi che rispondiamo a questo popolo che m’ha parlato dicendo: Allevia il giogo che tuo padre ci ha imposto?"

10 E i giovani ch’erano cresciuti con lui, gli parlarono così: "Ecco quel che dirai a questo popolo che s’è rivolto a te dicendo: Tuo padre ha reso pesante il nostro giogo, e tu ce lo allevia! Gli risponderai così: Il mio dito mignolo è più grosso del corpo di mio padre;