Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

Bible References

Took counsel

Job 12:12
“Wisdom is with aged men,
With long life is understanding.
Job 32:7
“I thought age should speak,
And increased years should teach wisdom.
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
But a wise man is he who listens to counsel.
Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and accept discipline,
That you may be wise the rest of your days.
Proverbs 27:10
Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
Jeremiah 42:2
and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our petition come before you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, that is for all this remnant; because we are left but a few out of many, as your own eyes now see us,

What counsel

2 Samuel 16:20
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your advice. What shall we do?”
2 Samuel 17:5
Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say.”