2 Chronicles 10:6-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?

⁷ And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.

⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, and began to treat with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his train.