2 Chronicles 10:8

Translations

Modern

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And he rejected the counsel of the elders who had counseled him, and he counseled with the young men who had grown up with him, those standing before him.

Latin

At ille reliquit consilium senum, et cum juvenibus tractare cœpit, qui cum eo nutriti fuerant, et erant in comitatu illius.

Original

Hebrew

English

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

Notes

2 Chronicles 10:8

Rehoboam 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 young to be wise (see Job 12:12).

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