Then 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? ’
You have gone astray at the cost of your lives because you are the ones who sent me to the Lord your God, saying, “Pray to the Lord our God on our behalf, and as for all that the Lord our God says, tell it to us, and we’ll act accordingly.”
Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend, and don’t go to your brother’s house in your time of calamity; better a neighbour nearby than a brother far away.