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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Kings 12:5 - 12:5
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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 counselors 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.