8But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.


In Context

5 Rehoboam answered, "Come back to me in three days." So the people went away.

6 Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. "How would you advise me to answer these people?" he asked.

7 They replied, "If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants."

8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

9 He asked them, "What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?"

10 The young men who had grown up with him replied, "Tell the people who have said to you, 'Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter'-tell them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist.

2nd Chronicles 10:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:8But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:8But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, end began to treat with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his train.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:8But he forsook the advice of the old men which they had given him, and consulted with the young men, who had grown up with him, that stood before him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:8But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:8But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:8And he forsaketh the counsel of the aged men that they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, those standing before him,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:8But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.