6And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
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I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
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And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)Solomon had 1000 wives and concubines, yet we read but of one son he had to bear up his name, and he a fool. It is said (Hos. 4:10), They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase . Sin is a bad way of building up a family. Rehoboam was the son of the wisest of men, yet did not inherit his father’s wisdom, and then it stood him in little stead to inherit his father’s throne. Neither wisdom nor…
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