10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 3 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 4 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
1 tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The pronoun “he” has been used in the translation in place of the proper name in keeping with contemporary English style.
2 tn Heb “Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders which they advised and he consulted the young men with whom he had grown up, who stood before him.”
3 tn Heb “stood before.”
4 tn Heb “saying.”