And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do you give me to return an answer to this people?
For whatever things were written in former times were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will make it known to you; your elders, and they will tell you.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?