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2 Chronicles 10:6
Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

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1 Samuel 7:4
So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only.

2 Chronicles 2:13
And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father,

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2 Samuel 16:20
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your opinion now, what are we to do?

Job 12:12
Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

Job 12:13
With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.

Proverbs 12:15
The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

Proverbs 19:20
Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

Proverbs 27:10
Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

Jeremiah 42:2
And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:

Jeremiah 42:3
That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.

Jeremiah 42:4
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.

Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a true witness against us in good faith, if we do not do everything which the Lord your God sends you to say to us.

Jeremiah 42:20
For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

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2 Samuel 19:43
And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 20:1
Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

1 Kings 12:16
And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.

2 Chronicles 9:1
Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

2 Chronicles 10:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.

2 Chronicles 10:2
And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt.

2 Chronicles 10:10
And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

2 Chronicles 10:11
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

2 Chronicles 10:13
And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,

2 Chronicles 10:14
But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

2 Chronicles 10:15
So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God, so that the Lord might give effect to his word which he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

2 Chronicles 10:16
And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.

2 Chronicles 10:17
But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.

2 Chronicles 10:18
Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 10:19
So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.

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1 Kings 14:21
And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

2 Chronicles 11:5
Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

2 Chronicles 12:1
Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

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1 Kings 22:6
So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

1 Kings 22:7
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?

1 Kings 22:8
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

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1 Chronicles 13:1
Then David had discussions with the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and with every chief.

2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month.

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2 Chronicles 3:7
All the house was plated with gold, the supports, the steps, the walls and the doors; and the walls were ornamented with designs of winged ones.

2 Chronicles 4:1
Then he made a brass altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

2 Chronicles 5:1
So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.

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2 Chronicles 10:3
And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

2 Chronicles 10:4
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

2 Chronicles 10:5
And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.

2 Chronicles 10:12
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day.

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2 Chronicles 12:16
And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.

2 Chronicles 13:1
In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.

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2 Chronicles 25:17
Then Amaziah, king of Judah, acting on the suggestion of his servants, sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.

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Job 8:8
Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

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Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

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1 Kings 12:7
And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.

Proverbs 15:1
By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

Philippians 2:7
But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

Philippians 2:8
And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:9
For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;

Philippians 2:10
So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,

Philippians 2:11
And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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Daniel 1:4
Young men who were strong and healthy, good-looking, and trained in all wisdom, having a good education and much knowledge, and able to take positions in the king's house; and to have them trained in the writing and language of the Chaldaeans.

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Mark 10:43
But it is not so among you: but whoever has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant:

Mark 10:44
And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all.

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Luke 19:14
But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

Luke 19:27
And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

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