2 Chronicles 10:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.”
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“But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And he forsaketh the counsel of the aged men that they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, those standing before him,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Chronicles 10:8 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 17:14Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
- 2 Chronicles 25:15Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”
- Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
- Proverbs 9:9Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
- Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
- Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
- Proverbs 25:12Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.
- Proverbs 27:10Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
- Ecclesiastes 10:2A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
- Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
- Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
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