2 Chronicles 10:8

2 Chronicles 10:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.
• English Standard Version (ESV)But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

Context of 2 Chronicles 10:8

6Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had attended his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people?” 7They replied, “If you will be kind to this people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.” But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, the ones attending him. 9He asked them, “What message do you advise we send back to this people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?” 10Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ’ This is what you should say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

2 Chronicles 10:8 word by word

וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛ב אֶת־עֲצַ֥ת הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְעָצֻ֑הוּ וַיִּוָּעַ֗ץ אֶת־הַיְלָדִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר גָּדְל֣וּ אִתּ֔וֹ הָעֹמְדִ֖ים לְפָנָֽיו׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• But he forsookעָזַב‛âzab · to leave: forsakeH5800
• the counselעֵצָה‛êtsâh · counselH6098
• which the old menזָקֵןzâqên · oldH2205
• gaveיָעַץyâ‛ats · to adviseH3289
• with the young menיֶ֫לֶדyeled · youthH3206
• that were brought upגָּדַלgâdal · to magnifyH1431
• with him, that stoodעָמַד‛âmad · to stand: standH5975
• beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 10:8

• 2 Chronicles 25:15So the Lord’s anger was against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why have you sought a people’s gods that could not rescue their own people from you?”
• 2 Samuel 17:14Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.”
• Proverbs 1:25since you neglected all my counsel and did not accept my correction,
• Proverbs 9:9Instruct the wise, and he will be wiser still; teach the righteous, and he will learn more.
• Proverbs 19:20Listen to counsel and receive instruction so that you may be wise later in life.
• Proverbs 25:12A wise correction to a receptive ear is like a gold ring or an ornament of gold.
• Ecclesiastes 10:2A wise person’s heart goes to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left.

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 10:8

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-11Verses 1-11 The narrative of Kings (marginal reference) is repeated with only slight verbal differences.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign (2 Chronicles 12:13), so the young men who grew up with him were not beginners. They might have been royal princes, sons of Solomon’s other wives. It was natural for them to have a role in Rehoboam’s government, as shown by his promotion of his son Abijah (2 Chronicles 11:22). Calling these princes "young" might have been a comment on the value of their advice, because people did not consider the…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-152Ch 10:1-15. Rehoboam Refusing the Old Men's Good Counsel. 1. Rehoboam went to Shechem--(See on 1Ki 12:1). This chapter is, with a few verbal alterations, the same as in 1Ki 12:1-19.Read the comment

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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings