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1 Kings 12:6
King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

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Leviticus 19:32
“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Job 8:8
“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Job 8:10
Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

Job 15:9
What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

Job 15:10
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.

Job 32:4
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

Job 32:9
It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

Job 32:10
Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’

Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

Proverbs 16:31
Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

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1 Samuel 8:3
His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

2 Samuel 15:4
Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”

1 Kings 12:12
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”

1 Kings 12:13
The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

1 Kings 12:14
and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

1 Kings 12:15
So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

2 Kings 21:1
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

2 Kings 21:2
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:3
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

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2 Samuel 1:25
How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places.

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2 Samuel 1:27
How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”

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2 Samuel 16:20
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”

2 Samuel 17:5
Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.”

Jeremiah 43:2
then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

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2 Samuel 19:24
Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

2 Samuel 19:28
For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should appeal any more to the king?”

2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

Isaiah 41:8
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

Isaiah 41:9
you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant. I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’

Isaiah 41:10
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Jeremiah 2:5
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

Jeremiah 15:20
I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

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1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

Psalms 34:11
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Psalms 34:12
Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

Proverbs 1:1
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

Proverbs 1:2
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Proverbs 1:3
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

Proverbs 1:4
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man—

Hebrews 5:12
For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

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1 Kings 4:2
These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

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1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

1 Kings 17:1
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

Luke 1:19
The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

Luke 21:36
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Jude 1:24
Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

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1 Kings 12:1
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

1 Kings 12:4
“Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

1 Kings 12:18
Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 12:21
When Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

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2 Chronicles 31:17
and those who were listed by genealogy of the priests by their fathers’ houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;

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Proverbs 15:22
Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

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Proverbs 24:6
for by wise guidance you wage your war, and victory is in many advisors.

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Jeremiah 22:15
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

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Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Titus 2:2
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance,

Titus 2:3
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Titus 2:4
that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

Titus 2:5
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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