2 Chronicles 10:6
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 about how to answer these people?”
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2 Chronicles 10:6
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 about how to answer these people?”
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1 Samuel 7:4
Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
2 Chronicles 2:13
Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, Huram-abi,
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2 Samuel 16:20
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”
Job 12:12
With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
Job 12:13
“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.
Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Proverbs 27:10
Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
Jeremiah 42:2
and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us,
Jeremiah 42:3
that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”
Jeremiah 42:4
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”
Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God sends you to tell us.
Jeremiah 42:20
For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’
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2 Samuel 19:43
The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 20:1
There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”
1 Kings 12:16
When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.
2 Chronicles 9:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.
2 Chronicles 10:1
Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
2 Chronicles 10:2
When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 10:10
The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
2 Chronicles 10:11
Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ ”
2 Chronicles 10:13
The king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam abandoned the counsel of the old men,
2 Chronicles 10:14
and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
2 Chronicles 10:15
So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles 10:16
When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.
2 Chronicles 10:17
But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
2 Chronicles 10:18
Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 10:19
So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.
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1 Kings 14:21
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
2 Chronicles 11:5
Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
2 Chronicles 12:1
When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned Yahweh’s law, and all Israel with him.
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1 Kings 22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22:7
But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”
1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
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1 Chronicles 13:1
David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
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2 Chronicles 3:7
He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the walls.
2 Chronicles 4:1
Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
2 Chronicles 5:1
Thus all the work that Solomon did for Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of God’s house.
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2 Chronicles 10:3
They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
2 Chronicles 10:4
“Your father made our yoke grievous. Now therefore make the grievous service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
2 Chronicles 10:5
He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people departed.
2 Chronicles 10:12
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”
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2 Chronicles 12:16
Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city; and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 13:1
In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.
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2 Chronicles 25:17
Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”
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Job 8:8
“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
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Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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1 Kings 12:7
They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”
Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Philippians 2:7
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2:8
And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.
Philippians 2:9
Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,
Philippians 2:10
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
Philippians 2:11
and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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Daniel 1:4
youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
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Mark 10:43
But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
Mark 10:44
Whoever of you wants to become first among you shall be bondservant of all.
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Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
Luke 19:27
But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”
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