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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 10:8

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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10:8 Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign (12:13), so the young men who had grown up with him were not novices. They might have been royal princes, sons of Solomon’s other wives. It was natural for them to have a role in Rehoboam’s government, as shown by his promotion of his son Abijah (11:22). Referring to these princes as “young” might have been a comment on the value of their advice, because the young were not viewed as being wise (see Job 12:12).
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