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2 Chronicles 10:8

New American Bible - revised edition

But he ignored the advice the elders had given him and asked advice of the young men who had grown up with him and were in his service.

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Then Absalom and all the Israelites said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had commanded that Ahithophel’s good counsel should be thwarted, so that he might bring Absalom to ruin. David Told of the Plan.

He said to them, “What answer do you advise us to give this people, who have told me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father imposed on us’?”

Because you disdained all my counsel, and my reproof you ignored—

Walk with the wise and you become wise, but the companion of fools fares badly.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may eventually become wise.

A golden earring or a necklace of fine gold— one who gives wise reproof to a listening ear.

Do not give up your own friend and your father’s friend; do not resort to the house of your kindred when trouble strikes. Better a neighbor near than kin far away.

Instruct the wise, and they become still wiser; teach the just, and they advance in learning.

Woe to you, O land, whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning!

Ah! Rebellious children, oracle of the Lord, Who carry out a plan that is not mine, who make an alliance I did not inspire, thus adding sin upon sin;




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