And King Rehoboam consulted with the aged men who had stood before his father Solomon when he was alive, saying, How do you advise to answer this people a word?
To the chief musician. A Contemplation for the Sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have recounted to us the work You worked in their days, in the days of old.
For as many things as were written before were written for our instruction, that through the patience and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Remember the ancient days, consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will declare to you, your elders, and they shall say to you;
For ask now of the days past which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the heavens to the other end of the heavens, whether there has been a thing as great as this, or has anything like it been heard.