Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
Job 8:8 - Tree of Life Version Now ask the previous generation; consider the findings of their fathers; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For inquire, I pray you, of the former age and apply yourself to that which their fathers have searched out, American Standard Version (1901) For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out Common English Bible Ask a previous generation and verify the findings of your ancestors, Catholic Public Domain Version For inquire of the earliest generation, and investigate diligently the history of the fathers, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For inquire of the former generation: and search diligently into the memory of the fathers |
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
“Indeed, my eye has seen it all, my ears have heard and understood it.
Both gray-haired and aged are with us, men even older than your father.
Do you not know that it has been from old, since mankind was put on earth,
For the music director, a psalm of the sons of Korah, a contemplative song.
The living, the living—they praise You— as I do today. A father makes Your faithfulness known to his children.
Hear this, elders! Give ear, all inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
For whatever was written before was written for our instruction, so that through patience and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Now these things happened to them as an example, and it was written down as a warning to us—on whom the ends of the ages have come.
“Remember the days of antiquity, understand the years across generations. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders and they will say to you.
“Indeed, ask now about the former days that were before you, from the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of the sky to the other. Has there ever been such a great thing as this, or has anything like it been heard?