2 Chronicles 10:8 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁸ But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ But the king forsook the counsel which the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who were brought up with him and stood before him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ But Rehoboam ignored the advice the elders gave him and instead sought the counsel of the young advisors who had grown up with him and now served him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But he set aside the counsel of the elders, and he began to have discussion with the youth, who had been raised with him and who were among his companions.

2 Chronicles 10:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:14

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.

2 Chronicles 10:9

And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put upon us’?”

Proverbs 1:25

and you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

Proverbs 13:20

He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.

Proverbs 25:12

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

Proverbs 27:10

Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!

Isaiah 30:1

“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine; and who make a league, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin;