Teks -- 1 Kings 12:6 (NET)

12:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

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JFB: 1Ki 12:5-8 - he said . . . Depart yet for three days

It was prudent to take the people's demand into calm and deliberate consideration. Whether, had the advice of the sage and experienced counsellors been followed, any good result would have followed, it is impossible to say. It would at least have removed all pretext for the separation. [See on 2Ch 10:7.] But he preferred the counsel of his young companions (not in age, for they were all about forty-one, but inexperienced), who recommended prompt and decisive measures to quell the malcontents.

TSK: 1Ki 12:6 - consulted

consulted : 2Sa 16:20, 2Sa 17:5; Job 12:12, Job 32:7; Pro 27:10; Jer 42:2-5, Jer 43:2

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Poole: 1Ki 12:6 - With the old men that stood before Solomon

With the old men that stood before Solomon with Solomon’ s old counsellors, whom age, and experience of men and things, and converse with such a king, had made wise.

Haydock: 1Ki 12:6 - Old man

Old man. Banaias and Jahiel. (St. Jerome, Trad.)

Gill: 1Ki 12:6 - And King Rehoboam consulted with the old men that stood before Solomon his father, while he yet lived // and said, how do you advise, that I may answer this people

And King Rehoboam consulted with the old men that stood before Solomon his father, while he yet lived,.... Which was very prudently done; for as these were men in years, and had been his father's counsellors, from whom, do doubt, they had learnt much wisdom, being often in cabinet council with him, they were capable of giving him the best advice:

and said, how do you advise, that I may answer this people? what answer would you advise me to give to them, and in what manner?